Yeasts have been used for thousands of years to make fermented foods and beverages,
such as beer, wine, sake, and bread. However, the choice for a particular yeast strain or …

Sex is shrouded in mystery. Not only does it preferentially occur in the dark for both fungi
and many animals, but evolutionary biologists continue to debate its benefits given costs in …

Large-scale population genomic surveys are essential to explore the phenotypic diversity of
natural populations. Here we report the whole-genome sequencing and phenotyping of …

Understanding how and why populations evolve is of fundamental importance to molecular
ecology. Restriction site‐associated DNA sequencing (RAD seq), a popular reduced …

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 …

Since the completion of the genome sequence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in 1996 (refs),
there has been a large increase in complete genome sequences, accompanied by great …

Genomes encode for genes and non-coding DNA, both capable of transcriptional activity.
However, unlike canonical genes, many transcripts from non-coding DNA have limited …

The question of how genetic variation in a population influences phenotypic variation and
evolution is of major importance in modern biology. Yet much is still unknown about the …

The budding yeast, S accharomyces cerevisiae, is a leading system in genetics, genomics
and molecular biology and is becoming a powerful tool to illuminate ecological and …

A fundamental goal in biology is to achieve a mechanistic understanding of how and to what
extent ecological variation imposes selection for distinct traits and favors the fixation of …