Over the past few years, genome sequences have become available from an increasing
range of yeast species, which has led to notable advances in our understanding of …

Considerable progress in our understanding of yeast genomes and their evolution has been
made over the last decade with the sequencing, analysis, and comparisons of numerous …

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of noncoding RNAs of 17–22 nucleotides in length with a
critical function in posttranscriptional gene regulation. These master regulators are …

Reconstructing genome history is complex but necessary to reveal quantitative principles
governing genome evolution. Such reconstruction requires recapitulating into a single …

New molecular technologies have helped unveil previously unexplored facets of the
genome beyond the canonical proteome, including microproteins and short ORFs, products …

A large region of suppressed recombination surrounds the sex-determining locus of the self-
fertile fungus Neurospora tetrasperma. This region encompasses nearly one-fifth of the N …

Pseudogenes are paralogs generated from ancestral functional genes (parents) during
genome evolution, which contain critical defects in their sequences, such as lacking a …

Gray leaf spot (GLS), caused by the sibling species Cercospora zeina or Cercospora zeae-
maydis, is cited as one of the most important diseases threatening global maize production …

Pseudogenes are DNA sequences with high homology to the corresponding functional
gene, but, because of the accumulation of various mutations, they have lost their initial …

Mechanisms involved in fine adaptation of fungi to their environment include differential
gene regulation associated with single nucleotide polymorphisms and indels (including …