Channel: Yeast ploidy genetics

Inspired by: Christian Landry

Ploidy (/ˈplɔɪdi/) is the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell, and hence the number of possible alleles for autosomal and pseudoautosomal genes. This channel focuses on ploidy genetics in yeasts. Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

2023 Articles

2 249 articles

Spontaneous Mutation Rates and Spectra of Respiratory-Deficient Yeast

  • Xinyu Tu, Fan Wang, Gianni Liti, …, Michael Breitenbach, Jia-Xing Yue, Jing Li
  • Biomolecules, 10.3390/biom13030501
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Point mutations of homologs as an adaptive solution to the gene loss

  • Guosheng Ma, Xiaojing Zhao, Xinyi Shentu, …, Xiaojing Zhao, Xinyi Shentu, Liye Zhang
  • J Genet Genomics, 10.1016/j.jgg.2023.02.012
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Lessons learned: from mentored to mentor

  • Joseph Heitman, Joseph Heitman, Joseph Heitman, …, Joseph Heitman, Joseph Heitman, Joseph Heitman
  • J Clin Invest, 10.1172/jci167444
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Targeted Mutations Produce Divergent Characteristics in Pedigreed Sake Yeast Strains

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DASH/Dam1 complex mutants stabilize ploidy in histone-humanized yeast by weakening kinetochore-microtubule attachments

  • Max A B Haase, Guðjón Ólafsson, Rachel L Flores, …, Charles L Asbury, Trisha N Davis, Jef D Boeke
  • EMBO J, 10.15252/embj.2022112600
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Shuffling the yeast genome using CRISPR/Cas9-generated DSBs that target the transposable Ty1 elements

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The Dynamic Fungal Genome: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and Copy Number Variation in Response to Stress

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A Role for the Interactions between Polδ and PCNA Revealed by Analysis of pol3-01 Yeast Mutants

  • Shaked Nir Heyman, Mika Golan, Batia Liefshitz, …, Mika Golan, Batia Liefshitz, Martin Kupiec
  • Genes (Basel), 10.3390/genes14020391
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Highly complete long-read genomes reveal pangenomic variation underlying yeast phenotypic diversity

  • Cory A Weller, Ilya Andreev, Michael J Chambers, …, Morgan Park, Joshua S Bloom, Meru J Sadhu
  • Genome Res, 10.1101/gr.277515.122
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Meiosis in budding yeast

  • G Valentin Börner, Andreas Hochwagen, Amy J MacQueen, G Valentin Börner, Andreas Hochwagen, Amy J MacQueen
  • Genetics, 10.1093/genetics/iyad125
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2022 Articles

182 articles

Chromosome-dependent aneuploid formation in Spo11-less meiosis

  • Yuri Kawashima, Arisa H Oda, Yasushi Hikida, …, Arisa H Oda, Yasushi Hikida, Kunihiro Ohta
  • Genes Cells, 10.1111/gtc.12998
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The rate of spontaneous mutations in yeast deficient for MutSβ function

  • Yevgeniy Plavskin, Maria Stella de Biase, Roland F Schwarz, …, Maria Stella de Biase, Roland F Schwarz, Mark L Siegal
  • G3 (Bethesda), 10.1093/g3journal/jkac330
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Stress combined with loss of the Candida albicans SUMO protease Ulp2 triggers selection of aneuploidy via a two-step process

  • Marzia Rizzo, Natthapon Soisangwan, Samuel Vega-Estevez, …, Jan Soetaert, Anna Selmecki, Alessia Buscaino
  • PLoS Genet, 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010576
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UGDR: a generic pipeline to detect recombined regions in polyploid and complex hybrid yeast genomes

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Adaptation to high rates of chromosomal instability and aneuploidy through multiple pathways in budding yeast

  • Matthew N Clarke, Theodor Marsoner, Manuel Alonso Y Adell, …, Manuel Alonso Y Adell, Madhwesh C Ravichandran, Christopher S Campbell
  • EMBO J, 10.15252/embj.2022111500
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Rad51-mediated interhomolog recombination during budding yeast meiosis is promoted by the meiotic recombination checkpoint and the conserved Pif1 helicase

  • Andrew Ziesel, Qixuan Weng, Jasvinder S Ahuja, …, G Valentin Börner, Michael Lichten, Nancy M Hollingsworth
  • PLoS Genet, 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010407
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Loss-of-heterozygosity facilitates a fitness valley crossing in experimentally evolved multicellular yeast

  • Beatriz Baselga-Cervera, Noah Gettle, Michael Travisano, …, Beatriz Baselga-Cervera, Noah Gettle, Michael Travisano
  • Proc Biol Sci, 10.1098/rspb.2021.2722
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The Calcium Chloride Responsive Type 2C Protein Phosphatases Play Synergistic Roles in Regulating MAPK Pathways in Magnaporthe oryzae

  • Wilfred M Anjago, Jules Biregeya, Mingyue Shi, …, Zonghua Wang, Yonghe Hong, Meilian Chen
  • None, 10.3390/jof8121287
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Regulatory basis for reproductive flexibility in a meningitis-causing fungal pathogen

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Evolutionary and reverse engineering in Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals a Pdr1p mutation-dependent mechanism for 2-phenylethanol tolerance

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