The evolution of the GALactose utilization pathway in budding yeasts

MC Harrison, AL LaBella, CT Hittinger, A Rokas - Trends in Genetics, 2022 - cell.com
The Leloir galactose utilization or GAL pathway of budding yeasts, including that of the
baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the opportunistic human pathogen Candida …

Beyond genomics: studying evolution with gene coexpression networks

C Ruprecht, N Vaid, S Proost, S Persson… - Trends in plant science, 2017 - cell.com
Understanding how genomes change as organisms become more complex is a central
question in evolution. Molecular evolutionary studies typically correlate the appearance of …

Adaptation of S. cerevisiae to Fermented Food Environments Reveals Remarkable Genome Plasticity and the Footprints of Domestication

JL Legras, V Galeote, F Bigey… - Molecular biology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae can be found in the wild and is also
frequently associated with human activities. Despite recent insights into the phylogeny of this …

Transcriptome predictors of coral survival and growth in a highly variable environment

RA Bay, SR Palumbi - Ecology and Evolution, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Concern over rapid environmental shifts associated with climate change has led to a search
for molecular markers of environmental tolerance. Climate‐associated gene expression …

Ancient balancing selection maintains incompatible versions of the galactose pathway in yeast

J Boocock, MJ Sadhu, A Durvasula, JS Bloom… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Metabolic pathways differ across species but are expected to be similar within a species. We
discovered two functional, incompatible versions of the galactose pathway in …

[HTML][HTML] The dynamic three-dimensional organization of the diploid yeast genome

S Kim, I Liachko, DG Brickner, K Cook, WS Noble… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a long-standing model for the three-
dimensional organization of eukaryotic genomes. However, even in this well-studied model …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptional rewiring over evolutionary timescales changes quantitative and qualitative properties of gene expression

CK Dalal, IA Zuleta, KF Mitchell, DR Andes… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Evolutionary changes in transcription networks are an important source of diversity across
species, yet the quantitative consequences of network evolution have rarely been studied …

Heterologous Production of Calendic Acid Naturally Found in Calendula officinalis by Recombinant Fission Yeast

M Garaiova, Q Hua, R Holic - Journal of Agricultural and Food …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Calendic acid (CA) is a conjugated fatty acid with anti-cancer properties that is widely
present in seed oil of Calendula officinalis. Using the co-expression of C. officinalis fatty acid …

Coordinated Functional Divergence of Genes after Genome Duplication in Arabidopsis thaliana

R De Smet, E Sabaghian, Z Li, Y Saeys… - The plant …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Gene and genome duplications have been rampant during the evolution of flowering plants.
Unlike small-scale gene duplications, whole-genome duplications (WGDs) copy entire …

Sources of fungal genetic variation and associating it with phenotypic diversity

JW Taylor, S Branco, C Gao, C Hann-Soden… - The Fungal …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic variation is the stuff of evolution: if there is no variation, there can be no evolution.
This review of fungal genetic variation begins with a survey of its sources and then …