Most microbial communities consist of a genetically diverse assembly of different organisms,
and the level of genetic diversity plays an important part in community properties and …

This article reviews the production of different phenotypes from the same genotype in the
same environment by stochastic cellular events, nonlinear mechanisms during patterning …

Phenotypic plasticity is a prominent mechanism for coping with variable environments, and a
key determinant of extinction risk. Evolutionary theory predicts that phenotypic plasticity …

Deleterious mutations are generally considered to be irrelevant for morphological evolution.
However, they could be compensated by conditionally beneficial mutations, thereby …

A rise in resistance to current antifungals necessitates strategies to identify alternative
sources of effective fungicides. We report the discovery of poacic acid, a potent antifungal …

Deciphering the genotype–phenotype map necessitates relating variation at the genetic
level to variation at the phenotypic level. This endeavour is inherently limited by the …

Phenotypic heterogeneity describes the variation that exists between individual cells, spores
or other biological entities within genetically-uniform populations of fungi or other organisms …

Phenotypic plasticity, the ability of an organism to display different phenotypes across
environments, is widespread in nature. Plasticity aids survival in novel environments …

Sake yeast is mostly diploid, so the introduction of recessive mutations to improve brewing
characteristics requires considerable effort. To construct sake yeast with multiple excellent …

The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been used as a model organism for the
basic mechanism of aging, which provides useful assay systems for measuring both …