In the ecological literature, a 'home-field advantage'(HFA) describes the phenomenon where
plant litters are broken down more quickly in their native versus a foreign environment due to …

Local adaptation is an outcome of divergent selection on microbial populations and has
been linked to the immense genetic diversity of microbes observed in nature. Because it is …

Quantitative real‐time PCR (qPCR) has been widely used in quantifying bacterial and fungal
populations in various ecosystems, as well as the fungi to bacteria ratio (F: B ratio). Recently …

Hybridization can result in reproductively isolated and phenotypically distinct lineages that
evolve as independent hybrid species. How frequently hybridization leads to speciation …

Local adaptation is of fundamental interest to evolutionary biologists. Traditionally, local
adaptation has been studied using reciprocal transplant experiments to quantify fitness …

Stress tolerance and resistance in industrial yeast strains are important attributes for cost-
effective bioprocessing. The source of stress-tolerant yeasts ranges from extremophilic …

The budding yeasts are prime models in genomics and cell biology, but the ecological
factors that determine their success in non-human-associated habitats is poorly understood …

The genus Saccharomyces is intimately associated with alcoholic fermentations conducted
by humans. Its most emblematic species, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, represents not only an …

Speciation and adaptation are important processes that are difficult to study in the invisible
microbial world because of the lack of easily identifiable characters that can be correlated …

Endosymbioses, the intimate relationships between smaller symbionts and larger hosts,
have profound impacts on eukaryotic organisms. However, symbiont effects on host fitness …