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Comparative Analysis of Stress Adaptation in the Yeast Microbiome of Cactus

Yeasts and related fungi isolated from cacti or nearby non-cactus plants were characterized phenotypically and genomically, revealing differences that hint at modes of adaptation to the cactus host.

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Adaptive Benefits of Hybridization in Saccharomyces Yeast are Constrained by Genomic Background and Depend on Temperature

Abstract. Climate change urges us to better understand and predict evolutionary responses to temperature shifts. Hybridization, by increasing genetic varia

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Molecular mechanisms in evolution and ecology

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A provocative view of evolution turns 50

The Selfish Gene continues to challenge readers half a century later

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Scientists find yeast in frozen mummy's guts, use it to make sourdough bread

More than 5,300 years ago, Oetzi the Iceman was strolling through the Alps on the border of Austria and Italy when he was killed by an arrow in the back.

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Yeast at Forty

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Distinctive domestication of farmhouse beer yeasts preserved pre-industrial genetic and phenotypic diversity

Bircham et al. show that traditional European farmhouse brewing preserves genetically diverse, sexually competent Saccharomyces cerevisiae populations that are genetically and phenotypically distinct ...

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Learning the rules of metabolic innovation in yeast evolution

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The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans - Nature

Analysis of 128 high-coverage Indigenous American genomes shows extensive diversity shaped by several South American dispersals, ancient Australasian admixture, archaic introgression and long-term ada...

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I’m a Nobel Prize-winning immigrant. I can no longer recognize this country.

Attacks on science and immigrants are destroying America.

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Influence of Ploidy and Genetic Background on Stress Tolerance of Intraspecific Yeast Hybrids

A large set of intraspecific yeast hybrids was constructed using two strategies that yielded series of hybrids with variable ploidy. Phenotyping of the hybrids was carried out in high-stress media to....

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Why animals (and predatory bacteria) outsource costly amino acids

A simple teaching question — why some amino acids are essential — revealed a striking energy-based pattern. Convergent evolution in predatory bacteria and a new statistical framework helped us show th...

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Genotype-fitness mapping of adaptive mutants reveals shifting low-dimensional structure across divergent environments

Predicting the effect of a genetic mutation on fitness is a major challenge in evolutionary biology. This study uses fitness effects of a large collection of adaptive yeast mutants in multiple lab env...

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A cross-species rescue by mating method to interrogate gene essentiality across the Saccharomyces genus. | microPublication

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How ‘Fire Fungi’ Help Put Burnt Landscapes Back Together | The Tyee

Before plants and animals recolonize after a wildfire, fungi get to work.

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Convergent extreme reductive evolution in ancient planthopper symbioses - Nature Communications

Symbiotic bacteria can have exceedingly small genomes. This study finds that ancient bacterial symbionts of planthoppers have repeatedly evolved the smallest known genomes, losing most biosynthetic fu...

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Rapid genome modifications including chromosomal fusions and large-scale inversions are key features in Arctic codfish species - Genome Biology

Background Genome evolvability involves activation of transposable elements (TEs) that result in novel genomic rearrangements, including translocations, deletions, duplications, as well as larger stru...

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New Covid variant has been identified and is already spreading in 25 states

Researchers say the strain could evade protection from current Covid shots

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Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.

40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

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Escaping bottlenecks: The demographic path to genetic recovery in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus)

Population bottlenecks can lead to evolutionary dead ends by eroding genetic diversity and intensifying inbreeding. Although theory predicts possible escape routes, direct observations of this process...

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