Diversity and adaptive evolution of Saccharomyces wine yeast: a review

S Marsit, S Dequin - FEMS Yeast Research, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Saccharomyces cerevisiae and related species, the main workhorses of wine fermentation,
have been exposed to stressful conditions for millennia, potentially resulting in adaptive …

Choosing the right lifestyle: adhesion and development in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

S Brückner, HU Mösch - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a eukaryotic microorganism that is able to
choose between different unicellular and multicellular lifestyles. The potential of individual …

Eukaryote-to-eukaryote gene transfer events revealed by the genome sequence of the wine yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae EC1118

M Novo, F Bigey, E Beyne, V Galeote… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been used for millennia in winemaking, but little is known
about the selective forces acting on the wine yeast genome. We sequenced the complete …

Genome structure of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain widely used in bioethanol production

JL Argueso, MF Carazzolle, PA Mieczkowski… - Genome …, 2009 - genome.cshlp.org
Bioethanol is a biofuel produced mainly from the fermentation of carbohydrates derived from
agricultural feedstocks by the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. One of the most widely …

Analysis of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae pan-genome reveals a pool of copy number variants distributed in diverse yeast strains from differing industrial …

B Dunn, C Richter, DJ Kvitek, T Pugh… - Genome …, 2012 - genome.cshlp.org
Although the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is arguably one of the most well-
studied organisms on earth, the genome-wide variation within this species—ie, its “pan …

Bulk Segregant Analysis by High-Throughput Sequencing Reveals a Novel Xylose Utilization Gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae

JW Wenger, K Schwartz, G Sherlock - PLoS genetics, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Fermentation of xylose is a fundamental requirement for the efficient production of ethanol
from lignocellulosic biomass sources. Although they aggressively ferment hexoses, it has …

Aneuploidy and chromosomal instability: a vicious cycle driving cellular evolution and cancer genome chaos

TA Potapova, J Zhu, R Li - Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, 2013 - Springer
Aneuploidy and chromosomal instability frequently co-exist, and aneuploidy is recognized
as a direct outcome of chromosomal instability. However, chromosomal instability is widely …

Evolutionary engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for improved industrially important properties

ZP Çakar, B Turanlı-Yıldız, C Alkım… - FEMS yeast …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
This article reviews evolutionary engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Following a
brief introduction to the 'rational'metabolic engineering approach and its limitations such as …

Dosage compensation can buffer copy-number variation in wild yeast

J Hose, CM Yong, M Sardi, Z Wang, MA Newton… - Elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
Aneuploidy is linked to myriad diseases but also facilitates organismal evolution. It remains
unclear how cells overcome the deleterious effects of aneuploidy until new phenotypes …

Assessing the complex architecture of polygenic traits in diverged yeast populations

FA Cubillos, E Billi, E Zörgö, L Parts, P Fargier… - Molecular …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Phenotypic variation arising from populations adapting to different niches has a complex
underlying genetic architecture. A major challenge in modern biology is to identify the …