An update on the diversity, ecology and biogeography of the Saccharomyces genus

H Alsammar, D Delneri - FEMS Yeast Research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the most extensively studied yeast and, over the last century,
provided insights on the physiology, genetics, cellular biology and molecular mechanisms of …

Evolutionary biology through the lens of budding yeast comparative genomics

S Marsit, JB Leducq, É Durand, A Marchant… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a highly advanced model system for
studying genetics, cell biology and systems biology. Over the past decade, the application of …

The origin and adaptive evolution of domesticated populations of yeast from Far East Asia

SF Duan, PJ Han, QM Wang, WQ Liu, JY Shi… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been an essential component of human
civilization because of its long global history of use in food and beverage fermentation …

Distinct domestication trajectories in top-fermenting beer yeasts and wine yeasts

M Gonçalves, A Pontes, P Almeida, R Barbosa… - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
Beer is one of the oldest alcoholic beverages and is produced by the fermentation of sugars
derived from starches present in cereal grains. Contrary to lager beers, made by bottom …

Extensive sampling of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in Taiwan reveals ecology and evolution of predomesticated lineages

TJ Lee, YC Liu, WA Liu, YF Lin, HH Lee… - Genome …, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
The ecology and genetic diversity of the model yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae before
human domestication remain poorly understood. Taiwan is regarded as part of this yeast's …

A yeast living ancestor reveals the origin of genomic introgressions

M D'Angiolo, M De Chiara, JX Yue, A Irizar, S Stenberg… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Genome introgressions drive evolution across the animal, plant and fungal kingdoms.
Introgressions initiate from archaic admixtures followed by repeated backcrossing to one …

[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 …

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 …

Yeasts from temperate forests

S Mozzachiodi, FY Bai, P Baldrian, G Bell… - Yeast, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Yeasts are ubiquitous in temperate forests. While this broad habitat is well‐defined, the
yeasts inhabiting it and their life cycles, niches, and contributions to ecosystem functioning …

The Ecology and Evolution of the Baker's Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

FY Bai, DY Han, SF Duan, QM Wang - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
The baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has become a powerful model in ecology and
evolutionary biology. A global effort on field survey and population genetics and genomics of …