Figure 1: Yeasts are morphologically, ecologically, and metabolically diverse.

A. Images of yeasts from different orders. The color of the box surrounding the image indicates the species’ order. The color of the circle in the bottom right-hand corner of the image represents the isolation environment for the strain of the species sequenced and phenotyped during this study. Yeast colonies are morphologically diverse; they can vary in shape, color, size, dullness, etc.

B. Yeasts have been isolated from every biome and continent. Strains studied were found on plants, animals, in soil, and many other environments. Strain-level isolation data were placed into an ecological ontology to allow for identification of yeasts that shared higher-level ontological classes.

C. Yeasts are metabolically diverse. The image represents the KOs present across Saccharomycotina metabolic networks. Any pathway that is highlighted in purple is present across a subset of yeasts; the saturation of the purple represents the proportion of yeasts with the pathway.