“…However, the killer phenomenon has been a model system for yeast cell biology for decades, and there are a variety of reviews on killer yeasts in the literature for interested readers. These include reviews focusing on mechanisms of toxin production and activity (Magliani et al, 1997;Marquina, Santos, & Peinado, 2002;Schmitt & Breinig, 2006;Stark, Boyd, Mileham, & Romanos, 1990), the diversity and biology of yeast cytoplasmic elements and toxins (Klassen et al, 2017;Rowley, 2017;Wickner, 1996), and the role of killers in applied biotechnology (El-Banna, Malak, & Shehata, 2011).…”