Genome diversity and evolution in the budding yeasts (Saccharomycotina)

BA Dujon, EJ Louis - Genetics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Considerable progress in our understanding of yeast genomes and their evolution has been
made over the last decade with the sequencing, analysis, and comparisons of numerous …

Variation of soil microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) and its influence mechanism in the context of global environmental change: a review

S Adingo, JR Yu, L Xuelu, X Li, S Jing, Z Xiaong - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Soil microbial carbon utilization efficiency (CUE) is the efficiency with which microorganisms
convert absorbed carbon (C) into their own biomass C, also referred to as microorganism …

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 …

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 …

Evolutionary biology through the lens of budding yeast comparative genomics

S Marsit, JB Leducq, É Durand, A Marchant… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a highly advanced model system for
studying genetics, cell biology and systems biology. Over the past decade, the application of …

Evidence for loss and reacquisition of alcoholic fermentation in a fructophilic yeast lineage

C Gonçalves, JH Wisecaver, J Kominek, MS Oom… - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Fructophily is a rare trait that consists of the preference for fructose over other carbon
sources. Here, we show that in a yeast lineage (the Wickerhamiella/Starmerella, W/S clade) …

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 …

Mitochondrial copper and phosphate transporter specificity was defined early in the evolution of eukaryotes

X Zhu, A Boulet, KM Buckley, CB Phillips, MG Gammon… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The mitochondrial carrier family protein SLC25A3 transports both copper and phosphate in
mammals, yet in Saccharomyces cerevisiae the transport of these substrates is partitioned …

Genome-wide identification and characterization of NBLRR genes in finger millet (Eleusine coracana L.) and their expression in response to Magnaporthe grisea …

A Balamurugan, MG Mallikarjuna, S Bansal… - BMC Plant …, 2024 - Springer
Background The nucleotide binding site leucine rich repeat (NBLRR) genes significantly
regulate defences against phytopathogens in plants. The genome-wide identification and …

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 …