Complex microbiomes are part of the food we eat and influence our own microbiome, but
their diversity remains largely unexplored. Here, we generated the open access …

Certain lineages of the wine, beer and bread yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae have
diastatic activity. They contain the chimeric gene STA1 that codes for an extracellular …

The brewing industry is constantly evolving, driven by the quest for novel flavours and
fermentation characteristics that cater to evolving consumer preferences. This study explores …

Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) is observed during vegetative growth and reproduction of
diploid genotypes through mitotic crossovers, aneuploidy caused by nondisjunction, and …

When Saccharomyces cerevisiae grows on mixtures of glucose and galactose, galactose
utilization is repressed by glucose, and induction of the GAL gene network only occurs when …

Signaling modules, such as mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways, are
evolutionarily conserved drivers of cell differentiation and stress responses. In many fungal …

Baijiu (a Chinese liquor), one of the six world-renowned distilled liquors, is popular among
consumers, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae plays the most important role. However, the …

Domestication is an excellent model for studying adaptation processes, involving recent
adaptation and diversification, convergence following adaptation to similar conditions, as …

Galactose is a secondary fermentable sugar that requires specific regulatory and structural
genes for its assimilation, which are under catabolite repression by glucose. When glucose …

Adaptation to novel environments can only occur if natural selection has the raw material to
act upon. But small, endangered populations are often genetically depleted, and the …