Tag Archives: yeast

Revealing the natural history of yeast

Posted on 10 Aug, 2022 by Jeremy Yoder

The following is a guest post by Matthew Vandermeulen, PhD, at the University at Buffalo. Matthew studies the regulation of responses to environmental variation; he is on Twitter as @mvandermeulen. Saccharomyces cerevisiae, baker’s and brewer’s yeast, may be one organism that could contend with dogs … Continue reading →

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Oh my ploidy … diploids evolve more slowly than haploids?

Posted on 29 Mar, 2018 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

It’s been an embarrassingly long time since I last sat at my keyboard in a TME capacity (#NewPI chat doesn’t really count)! One year ago today, to be exact (writing this on 28 March, for publication on 29 March). Thus, … Continue reading →

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The why's of sex

Posted on 25 Mar, 2016 by Arun Sethuraman

Sex isn’t quite what it seems – while superficially wasteful in an evolutionary sense (why inherit on only one half of your genes, when you can inherit all of them asexually, or why waste resources in mating when you don’t … Continue reading →

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And who made your beer?

Posted on 27 Aug, 2015 by Arun Sethuraman

In the spirit of it being almost Friday, and while we’re on the topic of your favorite beverages – perhaps wine puts you to sleep, couldn’t care less where it came from, but prefer the bitterness of lager beers at your … Continue reading →

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Spontaneous mutations—friend or foe?

Posted on 16 Jun, 2014 by Jeremy Yoder

The following is a cross-posting from the Stanford CEHG Blog by Ryo (Ryosuke) Kit, a graduate student in Hunter Fraser’s lab at Stanford University. Evolution has conflicting opinions about spontaneous mutations. Spontaneous mutations produce the genetic variation that drives evolution … Continue reading →

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Hitchhiking microbes

Posted on 12 Mar, 2013 by kimgilbert

It is quite clear that humans play a major role in altering ecosystems today. Historic migration of human populations has been shown to have many interesting associated evolutionary consequences1,2. Worldwide travel makes it difficult to stop anything from going anywhere, … Continue reading →

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Where's the heritability? Right where you'd expect—if you look close enough

Posted on 6 Feb, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

Biologists have at our disposal two major ways to assess how much genetics contributes to variation in the most interesting traits, or phenotypes, of our favorite study organisms—that is, the heritability of those phenotypes. There’s what you might call the … Continue reading →

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