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 …

Novel Non-Cerevisiae Saccharomyces Yeast Species Used in Beer and Alcoholic Beverage Fermentations

J Bruner, G Fox - Fermentation, 2020 - mdpi.com
A great deal of research in the alcoholic beverage industry was done on non-
Saccharomyces yeast strains in recent years. The increase in research interest could be …

Population structure and reticulate evolution of Saccharomyces eubayanus and its lager‐brewing hybrids

D Peris, K Sylvester, D Libkind, P Goncalves… - Molecular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Reticulate evolution can be a major driver of diversification into new niches, especially in
disturbed habitats and at the edges of ranges. Industrial fermentation strains of yeast provide …

Polygenic evolution of a sugar specialization trade-off in yeast

JI Roop, KC Chang, RB Brem - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The evolution of novel traits can involve many mutations scattered throughout the genome,.
Detecting and validating such a suite of alleles, particularly if they arose long ago, remains a …

Signatures of optimal codon usage in metabolic genes inform budding yeast ecology

AL LaBella, DA Opulente, JL Steenwyk… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Reverse ecology is the inference of ecological information from patterns of genomic
variation. One rich, heretofore underutilized, source of ecologically relevant genomic …

Differences in environmental stress response among yeasts is consistent with species-specific lifestyles

C Brion, D Pflieger, S Souali-Crespo… - Molecular Biology of …, 2016 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Defining how organisms respond to environmental change has always been an important
step toward understanding their adaptive capacity and physiology. Variation in transcription …

Functional divergence for every paralog

PS Soria, KL McGary, A Rokas - Molecular biology and evolution, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Because genes can be constrained by selection at more than one phenotypic level, the
relaxation of constraints following gene duplication allows for functional divergence (FD) …

Tracking alternative versions of the galactose gene network in the genus Saccharomyces and their expansion after domestication

A Pontes, F Paraíso, YC Liu, S Limtong… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
When Saccharomyces cerevisiae grows on mixtures of glucose and galactose, galactose
utilization is repressed by glucose, and induction of the GAL gene network only occurs when …

Cis-Regulatory Divergence in Gene Expression between Two Thermally Divergent Yeast Species

XC Li, JC Fay - Genome biology and evolution, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Gene regulation is a ubiquitous mechanism by which organisms respond to their
environment. While organisms are often found to be adapted to the environments they …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental evolution of the model eukaryote Saccharomyces cerevisiae yields insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying adaptation

K Voordeckers, KJ Verstrepen - Current opinion in microbiology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a prime model for molecular evolution
studies.•Genome-and gene duplications are important drivers of evolution.•Genome-and …