Taxonomy of Pathogenic Yeasts Candida, Cryptococcus, Malassezia, and Trichosporon Current Status, Future Perspectives, and Proposal for Transfer of Six Candida Species …

M Takashima, T Sugita - Medical mycology journal, 2022 - jstage.jst.go.jp
This review describes the changes in yeast species names in the previous decade. Several
yeast species have been reclassified to accommodate the “One fungus= One name”(1F …

Insights into the ecology of Schizosaccharomyces species in natural and artificial habitats

M Brysch-Herzberg, GS Jia, M Seidel, I Assali… - Antonie Van …, 2022 - Springer
The fission yeast genus Schizosaccharomyces contains important model organisms for
biological research. In particular, S. pombe is a widely used model eukaryote. So far little is …

Contrasting modes of macro and microsynteny evolution in a eukaryotic subphylum

Y Li, H Liu, JL Steenwyk, AL LaBella, MC Harrison… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Examination of the changes in order and arrangement of homologous genes is key for
understanding the mechanisms of genome evolution in eukaryotes. Previous comparisons …

Exploiting synthetic biology platforms for enhanced biosynthesis of natural products in Yarrowia lipolytica

D Jiang, M Yang, K Chen, W Jiang, L Zhang, X Ji… - Bioresource …, 2024 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of synthetic biology, researchers can design, modify, or even
synthesize microorganisms de novo, and microorganisms endowed with unnatural functions …

Genomic diversification of the specialized parasite of the fungus-growing ant symbiosis

K Gotting, DS May, J Sosa-Calvo… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Fungi shape the diversity of life. Characterizing the evolution of fungi is critical to
understanding symbiotic associations across kingdoms. In this study, we investigate the …

Fission yeast autophagy machinery

DD Xu, LL Du - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Autophagy is a conserved process that delivers cytoplasmic components to the
vacuole/lysosome. It plays important roles in maintaining cellular homeostasis and …

A genome-informed higher rank classification of the biotechnologically important fungal subphylum Saccharomycotina

M Groenewald, CT Hittinger, K Bensch… - Studies in …, 2023 - ingentaconnect.com
The subphylum Saccharomycotina is a lineage in the fungal phylum Ascomycota that
exhibits levels of genomic diversity similar to those of plants and animals. The …

Dynamics in Secondary Metabolite Gene Clusters in Otherwise Highly Syntenic and Stable Genomes in the Fungal Genus Botrytis

CA Valero-Jiménez, MBF Steentjes… - Genome biology and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Fungi of the genus Botrytis infect> 1,400 plant species and cause losses in many crops.
Besides the broad host range pathogen Botrytis cinerea, most other species are restricted to …

Evolution and codon usage bias of mitochondrial and nuclear genomes in Aspergillus section Flavi

M Hugaboom, EA Hatmaker, AL LaBella, A Rokas - G3, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The fungal genus Aspergillus contains a diversity of species divided into taxonomic sections
of closely related species. Section Flavi contains 33 species, many of industrial, agricultural …

BioKIT: a versatile toolkit for processing and analyzing diverse types of sequence data

JL Steenwyk, TJ Buida III, C Gonçalves, DC Goltz… - Genetics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Bioinformatic analysis—such as genome assembly quality assessment, alignment summary
statistics, relative synonymous codon usage, file format conversion, and processing and …