Prachitha Nagendra

Asexual Adaptation Drives Transient and Reversible Changes in Mating Efficiency.

This study shows that asexual adaptation in yeast leads to dynamic, environment-dependent changes in mating efficiency that are often reversible and do not lead to stable reproductive isolation.

Opposing copy number variation dynamics accompany adaptation to glucose and galactose in diploid yeast.

This study shows that copy number variations (CNVs) dominate genome evolution in yeast adapting to glucose or galactose, with opposing CNV dynamics in each environment.