The frequency of sex in fungi

BPS Nieuwenhuis, TY James - … Transactions of the …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Fungi are a diverse group of organisms with a huge variation in reproductive strategy. While
almost all species can reproduce sexually, many reproduce asexually most of the time …

The Influence of Non-Saccharomyces Species on Wine Fermentation Quality Parameters

Á Benito, F Calderón, S Benito - Fermentation, 2019 - mdpi.com
In the past, some microbiological studies have considered most non-Saccharomyces
species to be undesirable spoilage microorganisms. For several decades, that belief made …

Transient structural variations have strong effects on quantitative traits and reproductive isolation in fission yeast

DC Jeffares, C Jolly, M Hoti, D Speed, L Shaw… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Large structural variations (SVs) within genomes are more challenging to identify than
smaller genetic variants but may substantially contribute to phenotypic diversity and …

Genomic epidemiology of the UK outbreak of the emerging human fungal pathogen Candida auris

J Rhodes, A Abdolrasouli, RA Farrer… - Emerging microbes & …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Candida auris was first described in 2009, and it has since caused nosocomial outbreaks,
invasive infections, and fungaemia across at least 19 countries on five continents. An …

PomBase 2018: user-driven reimplementation of the fission yeast database provides rapid and intuitive access to diverse, interconnected information

A Lock, K Rutherford, MA Harris, J Hayles… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract PomBase (www. pombase. org), the model organism database for the fission yeast
Schizosaccharomyces pombe, has undergone a complete redevelopment, resulting in a …

Pong: fast analysis and visualization of latent clusters in population genetic data

AA Behr, KZ Liu, G Liu-Fang, P Nakka… - …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: A series of methods in population genetics use multilocus genotype data to
assign individuals membership in latent clusters. These methods belong to a broad class of …

Combine Use of Selected Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Lachancea thermotolerans Yeast Strains as an Alternative to the Traditional Malolactic Fermentation in …

Á Benito, F Calderón, F Palomero, S Benito - Molecules, 2015 - mdpi.com
Most red wines commercialized in the market use the malolactic fermentation process in
order to ensure stability from a microbiological point of view. In this second fermentation …

Epigenetic gene silencing by heterochromatin primes fungal resistance

S Torres-Garcia, I Yaseen, M Shukla, PNCB Audergon… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Heterochromatin that depends on histone H3 lysine 9 methylation (H3K9me) renders
embedded genes transcriptionally silent,–. In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces …

The Spontaneous Mutation Rate in the Fission Yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe

A Farlow, H Long, S Arnoux, W Sung, TG Doak… - Genetics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The rate at which new mutations arise in the genome is a key factor in the evolution and
adaptation of species. Here we describe the rate and spectrum of spontaneous mutations for …

A meiotic driver hijacks an epigenetic reader to disrupt mitosis in noncarrier offspring

Y Hua, J Zhang, MY Yang, FY Zhang, JY Ren… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Killer meiotic drivers (KMDs) are selfish genetic elements that distort Mendelian inheritance
by selectively killing meiotic products lacking the KMD element, thereby promoting their own …