People have been searching for the wild ancestor of lager yeast for decades.

人们已经花了几十年的时间寻找了野生啤酒酵母。

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Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine sequenced the genome of the Patagonian yeast and found it was a near-perfect match to the element used to brew lager.

科罗拉多大学医学院的研究人员为巴塔哥尼亚酵母做了基因组排序，并发现它近乎完美地与用于酿造啤酒的成份相匹配。

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"It proved to be distinct from every known wild species of yeast, but was 99.5 percent identical to the non-ale yeast portion of the lager genome," said Hittinger.

利布金德说，“我们已证实，这种新酵母不同于任何一种已知种类的野生酵母，但是与已知啤酒酵母之外的某种酿造成份的基因组有99.5%的同一性。”

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What happened next included the town fathers' constructing them a new, modern brewery, the hiring of a lager-minded brewmaster from Bavaria and possibly the theft of a Bavarian yeast strain, smuggled in by a monk.

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