Carla Gonçalves

The paper discovers three novel ancient whole genome duplications in Saccharomycotina yeasts, suggesting WGD may be more common in fungi than previously thought.

This study identifies FrlP as a key component of an ABC importer in B. subtilis required for fructosevaline uptake, showing its regulation by FrlR and an antisense RNA, and demonstrating its functional redundancy with MsmX for bacterial fitness.

The paper analyzes gene family evolution across nearly all known Saccharomycotina yeast species, finding distinct evolutionary patterns with gene loss linked to metabolic and genomic changes.

The paper identifies three yeast lineages with reduced DNA repair genes and high evolutionary rates, showing how gene loss can lead to persistent hypermutator phenotypes.

This study identifies convergent gene loss in bee-associated lactic acid bacteria, linking it to phenotypic traits like fructophily through phylogenomic and machine learning analyses.

This study identifies convergent evolution in cacti-associated yeasts using genomic and phenotypic data, finding thermotolerance and horizontal gene transfer as key adaptive traits.

The paper shows that the fungal gene ENB1, acquired from a bacterial operon, enables iron uptake in W/S clade yeasts and evolved through horizontal transfer and gene loss.

BioKIT provides a unified toolkit for processing and analyzing diverse sequence data, demonstrating its utility through quality assessments and codon usage analysis across multiple datasets.

The paper shows that fructophilic yeasts in the W/S clade lost and reacquired alcoholic fermentation genes via horizontal gene transfer, adapting to high sugar environments.