The duplication of an entire genome is no small affair. Whole genome duplication (WGD) is
a dramatic mutation with long-lasting effects, yet it occurs repeatedly in all eukaryotic …

Lithium has literally been everywhere forever, since it is one of the three elements created in
the Big Bang. Lithium concentration in rocks, soil, and fresh water is highly variable from …

Large-scale population genomic surveys are essential to explore the phenotypic diversity of
natural populations. Here we report the whole-genome sequencing and phenotyping of …

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 …

Polyploidy is observed across the tree of life, yet its influence on evolution remains
incompletely understood,,,. Polyploidy, usually whole-genome duplication, is proposed to …

Most of the described species in kingdom Fungi are contained in two phyla, the Ascomycota
and the Basidiomycota (subkingdom Dikarya). As a result, our understanding of the biology …

Adaptive evolution plays a large role in generating the phenotypic diversity observed in
nature, yet current methods are impractical for characterizing the molecular basis and fitness …

Tolerance to high levels of ethanol is an ecologically and industrially relevant phenotype of
microbes, but the molecular mechanisms underlying this complex trait remain largely …

Sexual reproduction is a nearly universal feature of eukaryotic organisms. Given its ubiquity
and shared core features, sex is thought to have arisen once in the last common ancestor to …

Budding yeast has undergone several independent transitions from commercial to clinical
lifestyles. The frequency of such transitions suggests that clinical yeast strains are derived …