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Convergent expansions of keystone gene families drive metabolic innovation in a major eukaryotic clade
Abstract Many remarkable innovations have repeatedly occurred across vast evolutionary distances. When convergent traits emerge on the tree of life, they are sometimes driven by the same underlying gene families, while other times many different gene families are involved. Conversely, a gene family may be repeatedly recruited for a single trait or many different traits.
Genomic factors shape carbon and nitrogen metabolic niche breadth across Saccharomycotina yeasts
Research Article ECOLOGY Dana A. Opulente https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3224-7510, Abigail Leavitt LaBella https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0068-6703, [...] , Marie-Claire Harrison https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3013-9906, John F. Wolters https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5477-4250, [...] , Chao Liu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4252-4019, Yonglin Li https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2774-9106, Jacek Kominek https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1916-0122, Jacob L. Steenwyk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8436-595X, Hayley R.
Genomic and ecological factors shaping specialism and generalism across an entire subphylum
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Genomic and ecological factors shaping specialism and generalism across an entire subphylum
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Signatures of optimal codon usage in metabolic genes inform budding yeast ecology
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Abigail Leavitt LaBella, Dana A. Opulente, Jacob L. Steenwyk, Chris Todd Hittinger, Antonis Rokas Abigail Leavitt LaBella, Dana A. Opulente, Jacob L. Steenwyk, Chris Todd Hittinger, Antonis Rokas Published: April 19, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001185 ? This is an uncorrected proof. Figures Abstract Reverse ecology is the inference of ecological information from patterns of genomic variation.
Complex diseases through the lens of natural selection
If evolution leads to adaptation to our environments, then why do we still get diseases? In many cases, disease is the price we pay for evolutionary innovations. If you like having a body made up of multiple cells, then you run the risk of getting cancer. That big brain you’ve got might lead to the development of schizophrenia. And because environments often change faster than we can evolve, evolutionary adaptations that were once useful may be obsolete or even harmful in the present day.
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