Christine Sacerdot

TL;DR: Five species of Saccharomycetaceae, a large subdivision of hemiascomycetes, that are called "protoploid" because they diverged from the S. cerevisiae lineage prior to its genome duplication, are concentrated here on.

TL;DR: The results firmly establish the occurrence of two whole genome duplications in the lineage that precedes the ancestor of vertebrates, resolving in particular the ambiguity raised by the analysis of the lamprey genome.

TL;DR: This article shows that an osmotolerant yeast species, Pichia sorbitophila, recently isolated in a concentrated sorbitol solution in industry, illustrates this last situation and finds that the physiological characteristics of this new yeast species are determined by specific but unequal contributions of its two parents.

TL;DR: The high-quality genome of this species that diverged early in Saccharomycotina will allow further fundamental studies on comparative genomics, evolution and phylogenetics, and enzymes with biotechnological potential were identified, such as two extracellular tannases of the tannic-acid catabolic route, and a new pathway for the assimilation of n-butanol via butyric aldehyde andbutyric acid.

TL;DR: The results on a limited set of species expand by 50% the number of previously published HGT cases in hemiascomycetous yeasts, suggesting that this type of event is more frequent than usually thought.