Opportunities and challenges of understanding community assembly in spontaneous food fermentation

M Mudoor Sooresh, BP Willing, BCT Bourrie - Foods, 2023 - mdpi.com
Spontaneous fermentations that do not rely on backslop** or industrial starter cultures
were especially important to the early development of society and are still practiced around …

Biocontainment techniques and applications for yeast biotechnology

G Pavão, I Sfalcin, D Bonatto - Fermentation, 2023 - mdpi.com
Biocontainment techniques for genetically modified yeasts (GMYs) are pivotal due to the
importance of these organisms for biotechnological processes and also due to the design of …

PhyKIT: A Multitool for Phylogenomics

JL Steenwyk, GI Martínez‐Redondo… - Current …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Multiple sequence alignments and phylogenetic trees are rich in biological information and
are fundamental to research in biology. PhyKIT is a tool for processing and analyzing the …

Transcriptional response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae during competition with S. kudriavzevii: Genetic expression variability and accelerated activation

A Contreras-Ruiz, J Alonso-del-Real… - International journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Transcriptomic studies have become an essential tool to understand the response of yeast
to stimuli. The present work analyses the reaction of eight Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains …

[PDF][PDF] Phylogenomic inference, divergence-time calibration, and methods for characterizing reticulate evolution

S Bjornson, N Upham, H Verbruggen, J Steenwyk - 2023 - drive.google.com
Phylogenomics has enriched our understanding of the Tree of Life. Non-vertical modes of
evolution—such as hybridization/introgression and horizontal gene transfer—deviate from a …

Uneven distribution of prokaryote-derived horizontal gene transfer in fungi: a lifestyle-dependent phenomenon

F Liu, SH Wang, R Cheewangkoon, RL Zhao - mBio, 2025 - journals.asm.org
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in fungi is less understood despite its significance in
prokaryotes. In this study, we systematically searched for HGT events in 829 representative …

A novel multilayer antimicrobial urinary catheter material with antimicrobial properties

B Gambrill, F Pertusati, I Shergill, S Hughes… - Materials …, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Urinary catheters are commonly used in medical practice to drain and monitor urine of
patients. However, urinary catheterisation is associated with the risk of develo** catheter …

Optogenetic control of horizontally acquired genes prevent stuck fermentations in yeast

D Figueroa, D Ruiz, N Tellini, M De Chiara… - Microbiology …, 2025 - journals.asm.org
Nitrogen limitations in the grape must be the main cause of stuck fermentations during the
winemaking process. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a genetic segment known as region A …

The priority of yeast to select among various DNA options to repair genome breaks by homologous recombination

M Tartik - Molecular Biology Reports, 2024 - Springer
Background Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is considered an important mechanism to
contribute to the evolution of bacteria, plants, and animals by allowing the movement of …

[HTML][HTML] Reticulate evolution: Detection and utility in the phylogenomics era

S Bjornson, H Verbruggen, NS Upham… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Phylogenomics has enriched our understanding that the Tree of Life can have network-like
or reticulate structures among some taxa and genes. Two non-vertical modes of evolution …