Killer plasmids as drivers of genetic code changes during yeast evolution

Project Information

CODEKILLER

Grant agreement ID: 789341

DOI 10.3030/789341

EC signature date 25 May 2018

Start date 1 October 2018

End date 31 March 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 368 356,00

EU contribution € 2 368 356,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN
Ireland

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (5)

The yeast mating-type switching endonuclease HO is a domesticated member of an unorthodox homing genetic element family

Author(s): Aisling Y Coughlan, Lisa Lombardi, Stephanie Braun-Galleani, Alexandre AR Martos, Virginie Galeote, Frédéric Bigey, Sylvie Dequin, Kevin P Byrne, Kenneth H Wolfe
Published in: eLife, Issue 9, 2020, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.55336

Origin of Lactose Fermentation in Kluyveromyces lactis by Interspecies Transfer of a Neo-functionalized Gene Cluster during Domestication

Author(s): Javier A. Varela, Martina Puricelli, Raúl A. Ortiz-Merino, Romina Giacomobono, Stephanie Braun-Galleani, Kenneth H. Wolfe, John P. Morrissey
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 29/24, 2019, Page(s) 4284-4290.e2, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.10.044

Polymorphic centromere locations in the pathogenic yeast Candida parapsilosis

Author(s): Mihaela Ola, Caoimhe E. O'Brien, Aisling Y. Coughlan, Qinxi Ma, Paul D. Donovan, Kenneth H. Wolfe, Geraldine Butler
Published in: Genome Research, Issue 30/5, 2020, Page(s) 684-696, ISSN 1088-9051
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
DOI: 10.1101/gr.257816.119

Multiple Reinventions of Mating-type Switching during Budding Yeast Evolution

Author(s): Tadeusz Krassowski, Jacek Kominek, Xing-Xing Shen, Dana A. Opulente, Xiaofan Zhou, Antonis Rokas, Chris Todd Hittinger, Kenneth H. Wolfe
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 29/15, 2019, Page(s) 2555-2562.e8, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.06.056

Giant GAL gene clusters for the melibiose‐galactose pathway in Torulaspora

Author(s): Anjan Venkatesh, Anthony L. Murray, Aisling Y. Coughlan, Kenneth H. Wolfe
Published in: Yeast, Issue 38/1, 2021, Page(s) 117-126, ISSN 0749-503X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/yea.3532