After forty years of research development, an overview of solid-state fermentation (SSF),
focusing on its applications, mainly of the very recent papers of the last five years, is …

Within the life cycle of a living organism, another life cycle exists for the selfish genome
inhabitants, which are called transposable elements (TEs). These mobile sequences invade …

Kombucha, a fermented tea beverage with an acidic and effervescent taste, is composed of
a multispecies microbial ecosystem with complex interactions that are characterized by both …

The question of how phenotypic and genomic complexity are inter‐related and how they are
shaped through evolution is a central question in biology that historically has been …

Penicillium expansum is a necrotrophic plant pathogen with a wide range of fruit hosts. It
causes blue mold rot during fruit storage, transport, and sale, resulting in huge economic …

Sequencing technologies have deeply changed our approach to the study of food microbial
communities. This review describes recent exploitations of high-throughput sequencing …

Transposable elements in eukaryotic organisms have historically been considered “selfish,”
at best conferring indirect benefits to their host organisms. The Starships are a recently …

Domestication involves recent adaptation under strong human selection and rapid
diversification and therefore constitutes a good model for studies of these processes. We …

Most known examples of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) between eukaryotes are ancient.
These events are identified primarily using phylogenetic methods on coding regions alone …

The horizontal transfer of large gene clusters by mobile elements is a key driver of
prokaryotic adaptation in response to environmental stresses. Eukaryotic microbes face …