The gametogenesis program of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, also known
as sporulation, employs unusual internal meiotic divisions, after which all four meiotic …

Mating‐type switching in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe is initiated by a
strand‐specific imprint located at the mating‐type (mat1) locus. We show that the imprint …

Meiotic drive is a non-Mendelian inheritance phenomenon in which certain selfish genetic
elements skew sexual transmission in their own favor. In some cases, progeny or gametes …

A conserved signalling cascade—termed the mitotic-exit network in budding yeast and the
septation-initiation network in fission yeast—controls key events during exit from mitosis and …

Dependency relationships within the cell cycle allow cells to arrest the cycle reversibly in
response to agents or conditions that interfere with specific aspects of its normal …

The septation initiation network (SIN) triggers the onset of cytokinesis in the fission yeast
Schizosaccharomyces pombe by promoting contraction of the medially placed F-actin ring …

Wild Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains are typically diploid. When faced with glucose and
nitrogen limitation they can undergo meiosis and sporulate. Diploids can also enter a …

Highlights•Timing and modes of actomyosin ring assembly diverged in S. pombe and S.
japonicus.•S. pombe uses a diverged anillin paralog Mid1 to assemble the division ring.•S …

Genetic instability is a hallmark of aneuploidy in budding and fission yeast. All aneuploid
yeast strains analyzed to date harbor elevated levels of Rad52-GFP foci, a sign of DNA …

The aim of mitosis is to produce two daughter nuclei, each containing a chromosome
complement identical to that of the mother nucleus. This can be accomplished through a …