Abstract
Ploidy is a fundamental genetic trait with important physiological and genomic implications. We applied complementary molecular tools to highlight differences in genome size and ploidy between Zygosaccharomyces rouxii strain CBS 732 T and other related wild strains (ATCC 42981, ABT 301, and ABT 601). The cell cycle analysis by flow cytometry revealed a genome size of 12.7 ± 0.2 Mb for strain CBS 732 T, 21.9 ± 0.2 Mb for ATCC 42981, 28.1 ± 1.3 Mb for ABT 301, and 39.00 ± 0.3 Mb for ABT 601. Moreover, karyotyping analysis showed a high variability, with wild strains having a higher number of chromosomal bands than CBS 732 T. The ploidy level was assessed comparing genome size from flow cytometry with the average haploid size from electrophoretic karyotyping. Strain CBS 732 T showed an haploid DNA content, whereas the wild strains a diploid DNA content. In addition gene probe-chromosome hybridization targeted to ZSOD genes showed that wild strains with a diploid DNA content have two ZSOD copies located on different chromosomes.
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