Budding Yeast for Budding Geneticists: A Primer on the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Model System

AA Duina, ME Miller, JB Keeney - Genetics, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a powerful model organism for studying
fundamental aspects of eukaryotic cell biology. This Primer article presents a brief historical …

Interspecific hybridization as a driver of fungal evolution and adaptation

J Steensels, B Gallone, KJ Verstrepen - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
Cross-species gene transfer is often associated with bacteria, which have evolved several
mechanisms that facilitate horizontal DNA exchange. However, the increased availability of …

Membrane Trafficking in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae Model

S Feyder, JO De Craene, S Bär, DL Bertazzi… - International journal of …, 2015 - mdpi.com
The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is one of the best characterized eukaryotic models.
The secretory pathway was the first trafficking pathway clearly understood mainly thanks to …

An introduction to the avian gut microbiota and the effects of yeast-based prebiotic-type compounds as potential feed additives

SM Roto, PM Rubinelli, SC Ricke - Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The poultry industry has been searching for a replacement for antibiotic growth promoters in
poultry feed as public concerns over the use of antibiotics and the appearance of antibiotic …

An evolutionary perspective on yeast mating-type switching

SJ Hanson, KH Wolfe - Genetics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Cell differentiation in yeast species is controlled by a reversible, programmed DNA-
rearrangement process called mating-type switching. Switching is achieved by two …

Membrane protein-based biosensors

N Misawa, T Osaki, S Takeuchi - Journal of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
This review highlights recent development of biosensors that use the functions of membrane
proteins. Membrane proteins are essential components of biological membranes and have a …

[HTML][HTML] Loss of heterozygosity drives adaptation in hybrid yeast

CSS Heil, CG DeSevo, DA Pai, CM Tucker… - … biology and evolution, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hybridization is often considered maladaptive, but sometimes hybrids can invade new
ecological niches and adapt to novel or stressful environments better than their parents. The …

Multiple molecular mechanisms cause reproductive isolation between three yeast species

JY Chou, YS Hung, KH Lin, HY Lee, JY Leu - PLoS biology, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Nuclear-mitochondrial conflict (cytonuclear incompatibility) is a specific form of Dobzhansky-
Muller incompatibility previously shown to cause reproductive isolation in two yeast species …

Clusters of nucleotide substitutions and insertion/deletion mutations are associated with repeat sequences

MJ McDonald, WC Wang, HD Huang, JY Leu - PLoS biology, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The genome-sequencing gold rush has facilitated the use of comparative genomics to
uncover patterns of genome evolution, although their causal mechanisms remain elusive …

Loss of heterozygosity drives adaptation in hybrid yeast

CS Smukowski Heil, CG DeSevo, DA Pai… - Molecular biology …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Hybridization is often considered maladaptive, but sometimes hybrids can invade new
ecological niches and adapt to novel or stressful environments better than their parents. The …