Not your ordinary yeast: non-Saccharomyces yeasts in wine production uncovered

NP Jolly, C Varela, IS Pretorius - FEMS yeast research, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Saccharomyces cerevisiae and grape juice are 'natural companions' and make a happy
wine marriage. However, this relationship can be enriched by allowing 'wild'non …

Recent advances in three‐dimensional multicellular spheroid culture for biomedical research

RZ Lin, HY Chang - Biotechnology Journal: Healthcare …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Many types of mammalian cells can aggregate and differentiate into 3‐D multicellular
spheroids when cultured in suspension or a nonadhesive environment. Compared to …

A phylum-level phylogenetic classification of zygomycete fungi based on genome-scale data

JW Spatafora, Y Chang, GL Benny, K Lazarus… - Mycologia, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Zygomycete fungi were classified as a single phylum, Zygomycota, based on sexual
reproduction by zygospores, frequent asexual reproduction by sporangia, absence of …

Transient structural variations have strong effects on quantitative traits and reproductive isolation in fission yeast

DC Jeffares, C Jolly, M Hoti, D Speed, L Shaw… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Large structural variations (SVs) within genomes are more challenging to identify than
smaller genetic variants but may substantially contribute to phenotypic diversity and …

Creating a functional single-chromosome yeast

Y Shao, N Lu, Z Wu, C Cai, S Wang, LL Zhang, F Zhou… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Eukaryotic genomes are generally organized in multiple chromosomes. Here we have
created a functional single-chromosome yeast from a Saccharomyces cerevisiae haploid …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative analysis of fission yeast transcriptomes and proteomes in proliferating and quiescent cells

S Marguerat, A Schmidt, S Codlin, W Chen… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Data on absolute molecule numbers will empower the modeling, understanding, and
comparison of cellular functions and biological systems. We quantified transcriptomes and …

The COG database: an updated version includes eukaryotes

RL Tatusov, ND Fedorova, JD Jackson, AR Jacobs… - BMC …, 2003 - Springer
Background The availability of multiple, essentially complete genome sequences of
prokaryotes and eukaryotes spurred both the demand and the opportunity for the …

Genome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

MJ Gardner, N Hall, E Fung, O White, M Berriman… - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
The parasite Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for hundreds of millions of cases of
malaria, and kills more than one million African children annually. Here we report an …

Systematic functional analysis of the Caenorhabditis elegans genome using RNAi

RS Kamath, AG Fraser, Y Dong, G Poulin, R Durbin… - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
A principal challenge currently facing biologists is how to connect the complete DNA
sequence of an organism to its development and behaviour. Large-scale targeted-deletions …

Improving industrial yeast strains: exploiting natural and artificial diversity

J Steensels, T Snoek, E Meersman… - FEMS microbiology …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Yeasts have been used for thousands of years to make fermented foods and beverages,
such as beer, wine, sake, and bread. However, the choice for a particular yeast strain or …