Evolutionary consequences of drug resistance: shared principles across diverse targets and organisms

D Hughes, DI Andersson - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
Drug therapy has a crucial role in the treatment of viral, bacterial, fungal and protozoan
infections, as well as the control of human cancer. The success of therapy is being …

A comprehensive survey of the mutagenic impact of common cancer cytotoxics

B Szikriszt, Á Póti, O Pipek, M Krzystanek, N Kanu… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Background Genomic mutations caused by cytotoxic agents used in cancer chemotherapy
may cause secondary malignancies as well as contribute to the evolution of treatment …

Kinetics and fidelity of the repair of Cas9-induced double-strand DNA breaks

EK Brinkman, T Chen, M de Haas, HA Holland… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
The RNA-guided DNA endonuclease Cas9 is a powerful tool for genome editing. Little is
known about the kinetics and fidelity of the double-strand break (DSB) repair process that …

Polyploidy can drive rapid adaptation in yeast

AM Selmecki, YE Maruvka, PA Richmond, M Guillet… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Polyploidy is observed across the tree of life, yet its influence on evolution remains
incompletely understood,,,. Polyploidy, usually whole-genome duplication, is proposed to …

Quantitative evolutionary dynamics using high-resolution lineage tracking

SF Levy, JR Blundell, S Venkataram, DA Petrov… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Evolution of large asexual cell populations underlies∼ 30% of deaths worldwide, including
those caused by bacteria, fungi, parasites, and cancer. However, the dynamics underlying …

Epigenetic modifications affect the rate of spontaneous mutations in a pathogenic fungus

M Habig, C Lorrain, A Feurtey, J Komluski… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Mutations are the source of genetic variation and the substrate for evolution. Genome-wide
mutation rates appear to be affected by selection and are probably adaptive. Mutation rates …

A hydrophobic ratchet entrenches molecular complexes

GKA Hochberg, Y Liu, EG Marklund, BPH Metzger… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Most proteins assemble into multisubunit complexes. The persistence of these complexes
across evolutionary time is usually explained as the result of natural selection for functional …

Adaptation of S. cerevisiae to Fermented Food Environments Reveals Remarkable Genome Plasticity and the Footprints of Domestication

JL Legras, V Galeote, F Bigey… - Molecular biology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae can be found in the wild and is also
frequently associated with human activities. Despite recent insights into the phylogeny of this …

Mutualism-enhancing mutations dominate early adaptation in a two-species microbial community

S Venkataram, HY Kuo, EFY Hom… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Species interactions drive evolution while evolution shapes these interactions. The resulting
eco-evolutionary dynamics and their repeatability depend on how adaptive mutations …

Transposition favors the generation of large effect mutations that may facilitate rapid adaption

L Quadrana, M Etcheverry, A Gilly, E Caillieux… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile parasitic sequences that have been repeatedly
coopted during evolution to generate new functions and rewire gene regulatory networks …