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Unique trajectory of gene family evolution from genomic analysis of nearly all ...
Feng, Bo; Li, Yonglin; Xu, Biyang; Liu, Hongyue; Steenwyk, Jacob L.; David, Kyle T.; Tian, Xiaolin; Gonçalves, Carla; Opulente, Dana A.Funding Information: This study was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2023YFA0915500), National Natural Science Foundation of China (42376147), Intramural Joint Program Fund of State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology (SKLMTIJP-2024-03), Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions (ONCE) Program and Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars (ZR2024JQ027). XZ was s...
Identification of homologs of the Chlamydia trachomatis effector CteG reveals a...
Pereira, Inês Serrano; da Cunha, Maria; Leal, Inês Pacheco; Luís, Maria Pequito; Gonçalves, Paula; Gonçalves, Carla; Mota, Luís JaimeFunding Information: We are grateful to Mariana Mend\u00E3o for the construction of plasmids, and to our colleagues Agathe Subtil, Ian Clarke, Mar\u00EDa Rosa Vergara, and Nicole Borel for generously providing DNA of several Chlamydia species and antibodies. Funding Information: This work was supported by Funda\u00E7\u00E3o para a Ci\u00EAncia e Tecnologia (FCT) through grant PTDC/BIA-MIC/28503/2017, and in the...
Extensive remodeling of sugar metabolism through gene loss and horizontal gene ...
Pontes, Ana; Paraíso, Francisca; Silva, Margarida; Lagoas, Catarina; Aires, Andreia; Brito, Patrícia H.; Rosa, Carlos A.; Lachance, Marc André406564/2022\u20131, and CNPq process numbers 0457499/2014\u20131, 313088/2020\u20139, and 408733/2021; and Funda\u00E7\u00E3o do Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG, process numbers APQ-01525\u201314 and APQ-02552\u201315). Funding Information: We thank PYCC for making available the strains used throughout this study. Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024; Background: In yeasts belonging to...
Convergent reductive evolution in bee-associated lactic acid bacteria
Pontes, Ana; Harrison, Marie Claire; Rokas, Antonis; Gonçalves, CarlaComputational work was carried out with support of INCD funded by FCT and FEDER under the project 01/SAICT/2016 n\u00B0 022153 and the grant 2023.09581.CPCA.A1 (to A.P.). Research in the A.R. lab is supported by the National Science Foundation (DEB-2110404), the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01 AI153356), and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Publisher Copyrigh...
Diverse signatures of convergent evolution in cactus-associated yeasts
Gonçalves, Carla; Harrison, Marie Claire; Steenwyk, Jacob L.; Opulente, Dana A.; LaBella, Abigail L.; Wolters, John F.; Zhou, Xiaofan; Shen, Xing XingNational Key Research and Development Program of China - 2022YFD1401600 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - R01AI153356 National Institute of Food and Agriculture - 1020204, 7005101 National Science Foundation - DEB-2110403, DEB-2110404 Publisher Copyright: Copyright: © 2024 Gonçalves et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licens...
Tracking alternative versions of the galactose gene network in the genus Saccha...
Pontes, Ana; Paraíso, Francisca; Liu, Yu Ching; Limtong, Savitree; Jindamorakot, Sasitorn; Jespersen, Lene; Gonçalves, Carla; Rosa, Carlos A.406564/2022-1, and CNPq process numbers 0457499/2014-1, 313088/2020-9, and 408733/2021, and Fundação do Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG, process numbers APQ-01525-14 and APQ-02552-15). Field work in West Africa by L. Jespersen was supported by DANIDA, the Danish International Development Assistance. Conceptualization, A.P. P.G. and J.P.S.; resources, C.G. I.J.T. S.L. S.J. L.J. and C.A.R.; i...
Functional and Evolutionary Integration of a Fungal Gene With a Bacterial Operon
Sun, Liang; David, Kyle T.; Wolters, John F.; Karlen, Steven D.; Gonçalves, Carla; Opulente, Dana A.; LaBella, Abigail Leavitt; Groenewald, MarizethFunding Information: This material is based upon work supported in part by the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Program under Award Number DE-SC0018409; the National Science Foundation (under grant Nos. DBI-2305612 to K.T.D., DEB-2110403 to C.T.H., and DEB-2110404 to A.R.); and the National Institute of Food and Agricultur...
Macroevolutionary diversity of traits and genomes in the model yeast genus Sacc...
Peris, David; Ubbelohde, Emily J.; Kuang, Meihua Christina; Kominek, Jacek; Langdon, Quinn K.; Adams, Marie; Koshalek, Justin A.; Hulfachor, Amanda BethFunding Information: We thank the University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center DNA Sequencing Facility for providing Illumina and Sanger sequencing facilities and services; Maria Sardi, Audrey Gasch, and Ursula Bond for providing strains; Sean McIlwain for providing guidance for genome ultrascaffolding; Yury V. Bukhman for discussing applications of the Growth Curve Analysis Tool (GCAT); Mick McGee for HPLC ana...
Contrasting Strategies for Sucrose Utilization in a Floral Yeast Clade
Gonçalves, Carla; Marques, Margarida; Gonçalves, Paula Maria Theriaga Mendes Bernardoproject LA/P/0140/2020 of the Associate Laboratory Institute for Health and Bioeconomy—i4HB and also was supported by grants FructYEAST—LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-029529; Yeast species in the Wickerhamiella and Starmerella genera (W/S clade) thrive in the sugar-rich floral niche. We have previously shown that species belonging to this clade harbor an unparalleled number of genes of bacterial origin, among which is th...