“And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum…”
My yeast collaborators inform me that they’ve got a pesky incursion of
Saccharomyces cerevisiae in their Schizosaccharomyces pombe cultures. I thought these simple model organism people had their acts together.
Sort it out, guys. You promised me 4 transgenic lines and a stonking phenotype in less than a week.
Yeah. If they were proper scientists they’d be working on metazoa.
Is Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the ‘lesser flea’ in this scenario? I thought they were about the same size.
Cerevisiae have those wimpy little bud things, whereas pombe has big beautiful symmetric daughter cells. No contest!
You’re going to annoy them further by referring to their favourite organisms as “simple”, you know.