Saccharomyces castellii: A new model organism for telomere research
Telomeres are natural ends of eukaryotic chromosomes and perform a major role in cell biology. They protect chromosomes from degradation, fusions and the end replication problem. To study telomeres different model organisms are used including a number of yeast species. In this work I present a new species in yeast telomere studies – Saccharomyces castellii. This yeast exhibits a lot of interesting