ArticleNature communications2016
Sensory input attenuation allows predictive sexual response in yeast.
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- Unisexual reproduction promotes competition for mating partners in the global human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus deneoformans.PLoS genetics · 2019Article
- Quantitative analysis of the yeast pheromone pathway.Yeast (Chichester, England) · 2019Article
- Mating in wild yeast: delayed interest in sex after spore germination.Molecular biology of the cell · 2018Article
- A System for Gene Expression Noise Control in Yeast.ACS synthetic biology · 2018Article
- Spatial modeling of the membrane-cytosolic interface in protein kinase signal transduction.PLoS computational biology · 2018Article
- Late-Arriving Signals Contribute Less to Cell-Fate Decisions.Biophysical journal · 2017Article
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Abstract
Animals are known to adjust their sexual behaviour depending on mate competition. Here we report similar regulation for mating behaviour in a sexual unicellular eukaryote, the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We demonstrate that pheromone-based communication between the two mating types, coupled to input attenuation by recipient cells, enables yeast to robustly monitor relative mate abundance (sex ratio) within a mixed population and to adjust their commitment to sexual reproduction in proportion to their estimated chances of successful mating. The mechanism of sex-ratio sensing relies on the diffusible peptidase Bar1, which is known to degrade the pheromone signal produced by mating partners. We further show that such a response to sexual competition within a population can optimize the fitness trade-off between the costs and benefits of mating response induction. Our study thus provides an adaptive explanation for the known molecular mechanism of pheromone degradation in yeast.
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