Fission yeast and budding yeast are free-living haploid cells that are easily grown in the laboratory. They have different cell shapes and patterns of division. Left, fission yeast; right, budding ...

Unlike Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which was sequenced in 1996, C. albicans has no known haploid or homozygous form. Using whole genome shotgun sequencing is tricky, because multiple alleles confound ...