Traits
For the present analysis, we used data where all species were grown at
controlled conditions (batch cultivation) of media and temperature
(25ºC), and traits are presented in standardized units to dry biomass.
Aerobic batch cultivation (strain identity provided in Material and
Methods of the original reference) was used for growing all strains
under the same conditions (25ºC, standard YPD liquid medium, constant
agitation), and the rate of production of metabolites was recorded with
high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Detailed explanations of
the methods used to obtain every data are provided in the original
reference (Hagman et al., 2013). We selected the traits that pertain to
the objectives of this study, namely: ethanol yield (EthY: grams of
ethanol produced per gram of glucose consumption), respiratory quotient
(RQ: ratio between CO2 production and O2consumption, dimensionless), glycerol production (Gly: grams of glycerol
produced per gram of increment in biomass, per hour). What we called
growth rate here represents just a measure of performance under common
conditions, and it was calculated as the rate of vegetative growth from
biomass measurements and the initiation and the end of the experiment
(in dry weight).