Metarhizium: jack of all trades, master of many

RJ St. Leger, JB Wang - Open Biology, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The genus Metarhizium and Pochonia chlamydosporia comprise a monophyletic clade of
highly abundant globally distributed fungi that can transition between long-term beneficial …

Domestication of industrial microbes

J Steensels, B Gallone, K Voordeckers, KJ Verstrepen - Current biology, 2019 - cell.com
Domestication refers to artificial selection and breeding of wild species to obtain cultivated
variants that thrive in man-made niches and meet human or industrial requirements. Several …

Polyploidy, the nucleotype, and novelty: the impact of genome doubling on the biology of the cell

JJ Doyle, JE Coate - International journal of plant sciences, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Polyploidy is a key mechanism of genome evolution and speciation, particularly in plants.
Many aspects of polyploidy have been elucidated with the tools that have become available …

Precise control of SCRaMbLE in synthetic haploid and diploid yeast

B Jia, Y Wu, BZ Li, LA Mitchell, H Liu, S Pan… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Compatibility between host cells and heterologous pathways is a challenge for constructing
organisms with high productivity or gain of function. Designer yeast cells incorporating the …

Evolution of resilience in protein interactomes across the tree of life

M Zitnik, R Sosič, MW Feldman, J Leskovec - Proceedings of the National …, 2019 - pnas.org
Phenotype robustness to environmental fluctuations is a common biological phenomenon.
Although most phenotypes involve multiple proteins that interact with each other, the basic …

[HTML][HTML] Non-Saccharomyces yeasts for beer production: Insights into safety aspects and considerations

GA Miguel, S Carlsen, N Arneborg… - International journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The application of non-Saccharomyces yeasts in beer as a natural tool for innovation, to
create different aroma profiles and flavoured non-alcoholic beers, has attracted great …

A yeast living ancestor reveals the origin of genomic introgressions

M D'Angiolo, M De Chiara, JX Yue, A Irizar, S Stenberg… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Genome introgressions drive evolution across the animal, plant and fungal kingdoms.
Introgressions initiate from archaic admixtures followed by repeated backcrossing to one …

Hallstatt miners consumed blue cheese and beer during the Iron Age and retained a non-Westernized gut microbiome until the Baroque period

F Maixner, MS Sarhan, KD Huang, A Tett… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
We subjected human paleofeces dating from the Bronze Age to the Baroque period (18 th
century AD) to in-depth microscopic, metagenomic, and proteomic analyses. The paleofeces …

[HTML][HTML] Revisiting the Taxonomic Synonyms and Populations of Saccharomyces cerevisiae—Phylogeny, Phenotypes, Ecology and Domestication

A Pontes, M Hutzler, PH Brito, JP Sampaio - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
Saccharomyces cerevisiae—the most emblematic and industrially relevant yeast—has a
long list of taxonomical synonyms. Formerly considered as distinct species, some of the …

Yeast diversity in open agave fermentations across Mexico

P Gallegos‐Casillas, LF García‐Ortega… - Yeast, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Yeasts are a diverse group of fungal microorganisms that are widely used to produce
fermented foods and beverages. In Mexico, open fermentations are used to obtain spirits …