Defining coalescent genes: theory meets practice in organelle phylogenomics

JJ Doyle - Systematic biology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The species tree paradigm that dominates current molecular systematic practice infers
species trees from collections of sequences under assumptions of the multispecies …

Mitonuclear conflict and cooperation govern the integration of genotypes, phenotypes and environments

DM Rand, JA Mossman - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The mitonuclear genome is the most successful co-evolved mutualism in the history of life on
Earth. The cross-talk between the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes has been shaped by …

Defining and Disrupting Species Boundaries in Saccharomyces

J Ono, D Greig, PJ Boynton - Annual Review of Microbiology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The genus Saccharomyces is an evolutionary paradox. On the one hand, it is composed of
at least eight clearly phylogenetically delineated species; these species are reproductively …

Mitochondrial DNA and temperature tolerance in lager yeasts

ECP Baker, D Peris, RV Moriarty, XC Li, JC Fay… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
A growing body of research suggests that the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) is important
for temperature adaptation. In the yeast genus Saccharomyces, species have diverged in …

Single-molecule sequencing of an animal mitochondrial genome reveals chloroplast-like architecture and repeat-mediated recombination

J Sharbrough, L Bankers, E Cook… - Molecular biology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Recent advances in long-read sequencing technology have allowed for single-molecule
sequencing of entire mitochondrial genomes, opening the door for direct investigation of the …

Mitochondria-encoded genes contribute to evolution of heat and cold tolerance in yeast

XC Li, D Peris, CT Hittinger, EA Sia, JC Fay - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
Genetic analysis of phenotypic differences between species is typically limited to interfertile
species. Here, we conducted a genome-wide noncomplementation screen to identify genes …

Bayesian genome scale modelling identifies thermal determinants of yeast metabolism

G Li, Y Hu, J Zrimec, H Luo, H Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The molecular basis of how temperature affects cell metabolism has been a long-standing
question in biology, where the main obstacles are the lack of high-quality data and methods …

A Unique Saccharomyces cerevisiae × Saccharomyces uvarum Hybrid Isolated From Norwegian Farmhouse Beer: Characterization and Reconstruction

K Krogerus, R Preiss, B Gibson - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
An unknown interspecies Saccharomyces hybrid,“Muri,” was recently isolated from a “kveik”
culture, a traditional Norwegian farmhouse brewing yeast culture. Here we used whole …

Evolutionary trajectories are contingent on mitonuclear interactions

D Biot-Pelletier, S Bettinazzi… - Molecular Biology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Critical mitochondrial functions, including cellular respiration, rely on frequently interacting
components expressed from both the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes. The fitness of …

Protein complexes form a basis for complex hybrid incompatibility

KBS Swamy, SC Schuyler, JY Leu - Frontiers in genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Proteins are the workhorses of the cell and execute many of their functions by interacting
with other proteins forming protein complexes. Multi-protein complexes are an admixture of …