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ArticleEvolution; international journal of organic evolution2015

Evolution of ecological dominance of yeast species in high-sugar environments.

Kathryn M Williams, Ping Liu, Justin C Fay

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Article in Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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3 authors.

Kathryn M WilliamsEvolution, Ecology and Population Biology Program, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. kathrynmrwilliams@gmail.com.
Ping LiuDepartment of Genetics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
Justin C FayDepartment of Genetics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Funding

INSTITUTIONAL TRAINING GRANT IN GENOMIC SCIENCET32HG000045 · NHGRI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MICHAEL R BRENT, Barak A Cohen · 1997 to 2026
$8.4M
Genetic basis and evolution of thermotolerance in the Saccharomyces yeast speciesR01GM080669 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI FAY, JUSTIN C · 2007 to 2025
$5.3M
GENOMIC ANALYSES OF DROSOPHILA DEVELOPMENTK22HG000045 · NHGRI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI WHITE, KEVIN P · 2000 to 2004
$1.3M
NHGRI NIH HHS HG000045NHGRI NIH HHS K22 HG000045NHGRI NIH HHS T32 HG000045NIGMS NIH HHS GM080669NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM080669
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In budding yeasts, fermentation in the presence of oxygen evolved around the time of a whole genome duplication (WGD) and is thought to confer dominance in high-sugar environments because ethanol is toxic to many species. Although there are many fermentative yeast species, only Saccharomyces cerevisiae consistently dominates wine fermentations. In this study, we use coculture experiments and intrinsic growth rate assays to examine the relative fitness of non-WGD and WGD yeast species across environments to assess when S. cerevisiae's ability to dominate high-sugar environments arose. We show that S. cerevisiae dominates nearly all other non-WGD and WGD species except for its sibling species S. paradoxus in both grape juice and a high-sugar rich medium. Of the species we tested, S. cerevisiae and S. paradoxus have evolved the highest ethanol tolerance and intrinsic growth rate in grape juice. However, the ability of S. cerevisiae and S. paradoxus to dominate certain species depends on the temperature and the type of high-sugar environment. Our results indicate that dominance of high-sugar environments evolved much more recently than the WGD, most likely just prior to or during the differentiation of Saccharomyces species, and that evolution of multiple traits contributes to S. cerevisiae's ability to dominate wine fermentations.

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Carbohydrate MetabolismCoculture TechniquesEthanolFermentationGene DuplicationGenes, FungalSaccharomycesVitisWineEthanolCompetitionfermentationgenome duplicationinnovationwine

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PMID26087012
PMCPMC4751874

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