Yeast genomics and its applications in biotechnological processes: what is our present and near future?

V Tullio - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
Since molecular biology and advanced genetic techniques have become important tools in
a variety of fields of interest, including taxonomy, identification, classification, possible …

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 …

Macroevolutionary diversity of traits and genomes in the model yeast genus Saccharomyces

D Peris, EJ Ubbelohde, MC Kuang, J Kominek… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Species is the fundamental unit to quantify biodiversity. In recent years, the model yeast
Saccharomyces cerevisiae has seen an increased number of studies related to its …

Hybridization is a recurrent evolutionary stimulus in wild yeast speciation

C Eberlein, M Hénault, A Fijarczyk, G Charron… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Hybridization can result in reproductively isolated and phenotypically distinct lineages that
evolve as independent hybrid species. How frequently hybridization leads to speciation …

Local adaptation in fungi

A Bazzicalupo - FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In this review, I explore the pervasive but underappreciated role of local adaptation in fungi.
It has been difficult historically to study local adaptation in fungi because of the limited …

The effect of hybridization on transposable element accumulation in an undomesticated fungal species

M Hénault, S Marsit, G Charron, CR Landry - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile genetic elements that can profoundly impact the
evolution of genomes and species. A long-standing hypothesis suggests that hybridization …

Substrate, temperature, and geographical patterns among nearly 2000 natural yeast isolates

WJ Spurley, KJ Fisher, QK Langdon, KV Buh… - Yeast, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Yeasts have broad importance as industrially and clinically relevant microbes and as
powerful models for fundamental research, but we are only beginning to understand the …

Highly diverged lineages of Saccharomyces paradoxus in temperate to subtropical climate zones in China

PY He, XQ Shao, SF Duan, DY Han, K Li, JY Shi… - Yeast, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The wild yeast Saccharomyces paradoxus has become a new model in ecology and
evolutionary biology. Different lineages of S. paradoxus have been recognized across the …

A collection of barcoded natural isolates of Saccharomyces paradoxus to study microbial evolutionary ecology

C Bleuven, AK Dubé, GQ Nguyen… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
While the use of barcoded collections of laboratory microorganisms and the development of
barcode‐based cell tracking are rapidly developing in genetics and genomics research …

The teenage years of yeast population genomics—trace history, admixing and getting wilder

IJ Tsai - Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 2022 - Elsevier
Population genomics studies the evolutionary processes that shape intraspecies genetic
variations. In this review, I explore the insights into yeast population genomics that have …