Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!news.cs.indiana.edu!bionet!phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk!JMH14 From: JMH14@phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.evolution Subject: S.pombe/S.cerevisiae divergence Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 91 11:01:52 GMT Sender: daemon@genbank.bio.net Lines: 9 I am looking for some hints on estimated dates for the Saccharomyces/ Schizosaccharomyces divergence. The only data I have come across so far is a 5S tree from Rupert De Wachter's group which suggests (implicitly rather than explicitly) a divergence time of 1,000 MY or so. This was published in 1983/4. Does anyone know of more recent data, perhaps based on 18S sequences (?) I would be grateful for any pointers. John Hancock Dept of Genetics, University of Cambridge, U.K.