The Science of Why Beer Is So Delicious

Quoted: “It?s certainly a very intuitive mechanism,” says William Alexander, a yeast researcher at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the paper. Alexander explains that for yeast, which lacks any cellular components like flagella to help it get around, the evolutionary benefit of being able to spread quickly through insects “to fruit just as it becomes ripe or a tree when it starts leaking sap, is enormous.”