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Title: Tempo and Mode of Genome Evolution in the Budding Yeast Subphylum

Journal Article · · Cell
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  1. Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States)
  2. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
  3. Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States); South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou (China)
  4. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States); NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY (United States)
  5. Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States); Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
  6. Japan Collection of Microorganisms, RIKEN BioResource Research Center, Tsukuba (Japan)
  7. RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama (Japan)
  8. University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
  9. Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)-Universidad Nacional del Comahue (Argentina)
  10. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG (Brazil)
  11. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Peoria, IL (United States)
  12. Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Utrecht (the Netherlands)

Budding yeasts (subphylum Saccharomycotina) are found in every biome and are as genetically diverse as plants or animals. To understand budding yeast evolution, we analyzed the genomes of 332 yeast species, including 220 newly sequenced ones, which represent nearly one-third of all known budding yeast diversity. In this study, we establish a robust genus-level phylogeny comprising 12 major clades, infer the timescale of diversification from the Devonian period to the present, quantify horizontal gene transfer (HGT), and reconstruct the evolution of 45 metabolic traits and the metabolic toolkit of the budding yeast common ancestor (BYCA). We infer that BYCA was metabolically complex and chronicle the tempo and mode of genomic and phenotypic evolution across the subphylum, which is characterized by very low HGT levels and widespread losses of traits and the genes that control them. More generally, our results argue that reductive evolution is a major mode of evolutionary diversification.

Research Organization:
Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), Madison, WI (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
Contributing Organization:
Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education at Vanderbilt University; the Center for High-Throughput Computing at the University of Wisconsin—Madison; Lucigen, the CIPRES Science Gateway; and the University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center DNA Sequencing Facility
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0018409; FC02-07ER64494
OSTI ID:
1506653
Journal Information:
Cell, Vol. 175, Issue 6; ISSN 0092-8674
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 272 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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