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Last update: Mar 2023

  Offei B, Braun-Galleani S, Venkatesh A, Casey WT, O'Connor KE, Byrne KP, Wolfe KH. Identification of genetic variants of the industrial yeast Komagataella phaffii (Pichia pastoris) that contribute to increased yields of secreted heterologous proteins. PLoS Biol. 2022 Dec 15;20(12):e3001877.
  Bergin SA, Allen S, Hession C, Ó Cinnéide E, Ryan A, Byrne KP, Ó Cróinín T, Wolfe KH, Butler G. Identification of European isolates of the lager yeast parent Saccharomyces eubayanus. FEMS Yeast Res. 2022 Dec 7;22(1):foac053.
  Salzberg LI, Martos AAR, Lombardi L, Jermiin LS, Blanco A, Byrne KP, Wolfe KH. A widespread inversion polymorphism conserved among Saccharomyces species is caused by recurrent homogenization of a sporulation gene family. PLoS Genet. 2022 Nov 28;18(11):e1010525.
  Don A, Byrne KP, Alqaderi F, Mazhova A, O'Leary Chaney B, Redmond S, Allen S, Gao J, Ó Cinnéide E, Bergin SA, Hession C, Wolfe KH, Butler G. Draft Genome Sequence of the Yeast Blastobotrys aristata Strain UCD613, Isolated from Soil in Ireland. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2022 Nov 17;11(11):e0095722.
  Igharo B, Byrne KP, Ghnewa H, Davey RP, Fubara A, Welc J, Oubihi S, Moore L, Smith C, Ó Cinnéide E, Bergin SA, Hession C, Wolfe KH, Butler G. Draft Genome Sequence of the Yeast Torulaspora quercuum Strain UCD657, Isolated from Soil in Ireland. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2022 Nov 17;11(11):e0095222.
  Bergin SA, Zhao F, Ryan AP, Müller CA, Nieduszynski CA, Zhai B, Rolling T, Hohl TM, Morio F, Scully J, Wolfe KH, Butler G. Systematic Analysis of Copy Number Variations in the Pathogenic Yeast Candida parapsilosis Identifies a Gene Amplification in RTA3 That is Associated with Drug Resistance. mBio. 2022 Oct 26;13(5):e0177722.
  Wolfe KH, Butler G. Mating-Type Switching in Budding Yeasts, from Flip/Flop Inversion to Cassette Mechanisms. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 2022 Jun 15;86(2):e0000721.
  Rueda-Mejia MP, Nägeli L, Lutz S, Ortiz-Merino RA, Frei D, Frey JE, Wolfe KH, Ahrens CH, Freimoser FM. Genome sequence data of the antagonistic soil-borne yeast Cyberlindnera sargentensis (SHA 17.2). Data Brief. 2022 Jan 5;40:107799.
  Hanson SJ, Cinnéide EÓ, Salzberg LI, Wolfe KH, McGowan J, Fitzpatrick DA, Matlin K. Genomic diversity, chromosomal rearrangements, and interspecies hybridization in the Ogataea polymorpha species complex. G3 (Bethesda). 2021 Aug 7;11(8):jkab211.
  Ó Cinnéide E, Jones M, Bahate E, Boyd E, Clavero R, Doherty H, Drozdz I, Dumana M, Gonzales C, Kennedy J, Khan M, Maher S, McGurk C, Moreau K, Neville R, Norton J, Ó Cróinín T, O'Gorman E, Olliff JC, Orimaco R, Quinn E, Webb Kennedy S, Bergin SA, Byrne KP, Wolfe KH, Butler G. Draft Genome Sequence of the Yeast Ogataea degrootiae Strain UCD465, Isolated from Soil in Ireland. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Sep 30;10(39):e0073621.
  Ryan A, Ó Cinnéide E, Bergin SA, Alhajeri G, Almotawaa H, Daly I, Heneghan S, Horan K, Kavanagh R, Keane C, Martin A, McDonagh A, O'Leary J, Osborne M, Watson E, Byrne KP, Wolfe KH, Butler G. Draft Genome Sequence of a Diploid and Hybrid Candida Strain, Candida sanyaensis UCD423, Isolated from Compost in Ireland. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Sep 23;10(38):e0076121.
  Nishant KT, Wloch-Salamon D, Wolfe KH, Nobile CJ. Into the wild-Exploring the life cycles of yeasts. Yeast. 2021 Jan;38(1):3-4.
  Venkatesh A, Murray AL, Coughlan AY, Wolfe KH. Giant GAL gene clusters for the melibiose-galactose pathway in Torulaspora. Yeast. 2021 Jan;38(1):117-126.
  Ola M, O'Brien CE, Coughlan AY, Ma Q, Donovan PD, Wolfe KH, Butler G. Polymorphic centromere locations in the pathogenic yeast Candida parapsilosis. Genome Res. 2020 May;30(5):684-696.
  Coughlan AY, Lombardi L, Braun-Galleani S, Martos AA, Galeote V, Bigey F, Dequin S, Byrne KP, Wolfe KH. The yeast mating-type switching endonuclease HO is a domesticated member of an unorthodox homing genetic element family. Elife. 2020 Apr 27;9:e55336.
  Varela JA, Puricelli M, Ortiz-Merino RA, Giacomobono R, Braun-Galleani S, Wolfe KH, Morrissey JP. Origin of Lactose Fermentation in Kluyveromyces lactis by Interspecies Transfer of a Neo-functionalized Gene Cluster during Domestication. Curr Biol. 2019 Dec 16;29(24):4284-4290.e2.
  Braun-Galleani S, Dias JA, Coughlan AY, Ryan AP, Byrne KP, Wolfe KH. Genomic diversity and meiotic recombination among isolates of the biotech yeast Komagataella phaffii (Pichia pastoris). Microb Cell Fact. 2019 Dec 4;18(1):211.
  Heneghan P, Ryan AP, Nimmo D, Duggan C, Kumar P, O'Gaora P, Ó 'Cinnéide E, Byrne KP, Wolfe KH, O'Brien CE, Butler G. Draft Genome Sequence of the Birch Tree Fungal Pathogen Taphrina betulina UCD315. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Nov 27;8(48):e01255-19.
  Feng D, Stoyanov A, Olliff JC, Wolfe KH, Lahtchev K, Hanson SJ. Carbon source requirements for mating and mating-type switching in the methylotrophic yeasts Ogataea (Hansenula) polymorpha and Komagataella phaffii (Pichia pastoris). Yeast. 2020 Feb;37(2):237-245.
  Faherty L, Lewis C, McElheron M, Garvey N, Duggan R, Shovlin B, Ó Cróinín T, Byrne KP, O'Brien CE, Wolfe KH, Butler G. Draft Genome Sequences of Two Isolates of the Yeast Kazachstania servazzii Recovered from Soil in Ireland. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Oct 31;8(44):e01257-19.
  Almasoud J, McArdle L, Henne R, Mathews K, O'Connor Í, McLoughlin LE, Ó'Gaora P, Byrne KP, O'Brien CE, Wolfe KH, Butler G. Draft Genome Sequence of a Red Basidiomycete Yeast, Symmetrospora coprosmae Strain UCD350, Isolated from Soil in Ireland. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Oct 31;8(44):e01256-19.
  Drinnenberg IA, Berger F, Elsässer SJ, Andersen PR, Ausió J, Bickmore WA, Blackwell AR, Erwin DH, Gahan JM, Gaut BS, Harvey ZH, Henikoff S, Kao JY, Kurdistani SK, Lemos B, Levine MT, Luger K, Malik HS, Martín-Durán JM, Peichel CL, Renfree MB, Rutowicz K, Sarkies P, Schmitz RJ, Technau U, Thornton JW, Warnecke T, Wolfe KH. EvoChromo: towards a synthesis of chromatin biology and evolution. Development. 2019 Sep 26;146(19):dev178962.
  Douglass AP, Byrne KP, Wolfe KH. The Methylotroph Gene Order Browser (MGOB) reveals conserved synteny and ancestral centromere locations in the yeast family Pichiaceae. FEMS Yeast Res. 2019 Sep 1;19(6):foz058.
  Krassowski T, Kominek J, Shen XX, Opulente DA, Zhou X, Rokas A, Hittinger CT, Wolfe KH. Multiple Reinventions of Mating-type Switching during Budding Yeast Evolution. Curr Biol. 2019 Aug 5;29(15):2555-2562.e8.
  Palmer-Brown W, Miranda-CasoLuengo R, Wolfe KH, Byrne KP, Murphy CD. The CYPome of the model xenobiotic-biotransforming fungus Cunninghamella elegans. Sci Rep. 2019 Jun 25;9(1):9240.
  Gore-Lloyd D, Sumann I, Brachmann AO, Schneeberger K, Ortiz-Merino RA, Moreno-Beltrán M, Schläfli M, Kirner P, Santos Kron A, Rueda-Mejia MP, Somerville V, Wolfe KH, Piel J, Ahrens CH, Henk D, Freimoser FM. Snf2 controls pulcherriminic acid biosynthesis and antifungal activity of the biocontrol yeast Metschnikowia pulcherrima. Mol Microbiol. 2019 Jul;112(1):317-332.
  Douglass AP, O'Brien CE, Offei B, Coughlan AY, Ortiz-Merino RA, Butler G, Byrne KP, Wolfe KH. Coverage-Versus-Length Plots, a Simple Quality Control Step for de Novo Yeast Genome Sequence Assemblies. G3 (Bethesda). 2019 Mar 7;9(3):879-887.
  Coughlan AY, Wolfe KH. The reported point centromeres of Scheffersomyces stipitis are retrotransposon long terminal repeats. Yeast. 2019 May;36(5):275-283.
  Braun-Galleani S, Ortiz-Merino RA, Wu Q, Xu Y, Wolfe KH. (2018) Zygosaccharomyces pseudobailii, another yeast interspecies hybrid that regained fertility by damaging one of its MAT loci. FEMS Yeast Res. 18:foy079
  Douglass AP, Offei B, Braun-Galleani S, Coughlan AY, Martos AAR, Ortiz-Merino RA, Byrne KP, Wolfe KH. (2018) Population genomics shows no distinction between pathogenic Candida krusei and environmental Pichia kudriavzevii: One species, four names. PLoS Pathog. 14: e1007138
  Galeote V, Bigey F, Devillers H, Ortiz-Merino RA, Dequin S, Wolfe KH, Neuvéglise C. (2018) Genome Sequence of Torulaspora microellipsoides CLIB 830T. Genome Announc. 6: e00615-18
  Venkatesh A, Murray AL, Boyle AB, Quinn Farrington L, Maher TJ, Ó'Gaora P, Wolfe KH, O'Brien CE, Butler G. (2018) Draft Genome Sequence of a Highly Heterozygous Yeast Strain from the Metschnikowia pulcherrima Subclade, UCD127. Genome Announc. 6: e00548-18
  O'Boyle S, Bergin SA, Hussey ÉE, McLaughlin AD, Riddell LR, Byrne KP, Wolfe KH, O'Brien CE, Butler G. (2018) Draft Genome Sequence of the Yeast Nadsonia starkeyi-henricii UCD142, Isolated from Forest Soil in Ireland. Genome Announc. 6: e00549-18
  Mullen AA, Lynch CD, Hill SM, Holohan CP, Ó Cróinín T, Wolfe KH, O'Brien CE, Butler G. (2018) Draft Genome Sequences of Two Natural Isolates of the Yeast Barnettozyma californica from Ireland, UCD09 and UCD89. Genome Announc. 6: e00548-18
  Donovan PD, Holland LM, Lombardi L, Coughlan AY, Higgins DG, Wolfe KH, Butler G. (2018) TPP riboswitch-dependent regulation of an ancient thiamin transporter in Candida PLoS Genet. 14: e1007429
  Krassowski T*, Coughlan AY*, Shen XX, Zhou X, Kominek J, Opulente DA, Riley R, Grigoriev IV, Maheshwari N, Shields DC, Kurtzman CP, Hittinger CT, Rokas A, Wolfe KH. (2018) Evolutionary instability of CUG-Leu in the genetic code of budding yeasts. Nat Commun. 9: 1887.
  Ortiz-Merino RA, Varela JA, Coughlan AY, Hoshida H, da Silveira WB, Wilde C, Kuijpers NGA, Geertman JM, Wolfe KH, Morrissey JP. (2018) Ploidy Variation in Kluyveromyces marxianus Separates Dairy and Non-dairy Isolates. Front Genet. 9: 94.
  Ortiz-Merino RA, Kuanyshev N, Byrne KP, Varela JA, Morrissey JP, Porro D, Wolfe KH, Branduardi P. (2018) Transcriptional Response to Lactic Acid Stress in the Hybrid Yeast Zygosaccharomyces parabailii. Appl Environ Microbiol. 84: e02294-17
  Hanson SJ, Byrne KP, Wolfe KH. (2017) Flip/flop mating-type switching in the methylotrophic yeast Ogataea polymorpha is regulated by an Efg1-Rme1-Ste12 pathway. PLoS Genet. 13: e1007092.
  Wolfe KH, Butler G. (2017) Evolution of Mating in the Saccharomycotina. Annu Rev Microbiol. 71: 197-214.
  Ortiz-Merino RA, Kuanyshev N, Braun-Galleani S, Byrne KP, Porro D, Branduardi P, Wolfe KH (2017) Evolutionary restoration of fertility in an interspecies hybrid yeast, by whole-genome duplication after a failed mating-type switch. PLoS Biol. 15: e2002128.
  Coughlan AY, Hanson SJ, Byrne KP, Wolfe KH. (2016) Centromeres of the Yeast Komagataella phaffii (Pichia pastoris) Have a Simple Inverted-Repeat Structure. Genome Biol Evol. 8: 2482-92.
  Schröder MS, Martinez de San Vicente K, Prandini TH, Hammel S, Higgins DG, Bagagli E, Wolfe KH, Butler G. (2016) Multiple Origins of the Pathogenic Yeast Candida orthopsilosis by Separate Hybridizations between Two Parental Species. PLoS Genet. 12: e1006404.
  Riley R, Haridas S, Wolfe KH, Lopes MR, Hittinger CT, Göker M, Salamov AA, Wisecaver JH, Long TM, Calvey CH, Aerts AL, Barry KW, Choi C, Clum A, Coughlan AY, Deshpande S, Douglass AP, Hanson SJ, Klenk HP, LaButti KM, Lapidus A, Lindquist EA, Lipzen AM, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Ohm RA, Otillar RP, Pangilinan JL, Peng Y, Rokas A, Rosa CA, Scheuner C, Sibirny AA, Slot JC, Stielow JB, Sun H, Kurtzman CP, Blackwell M, Grigoriev IV, Jeffries TW. (2016) Comparative genomics of biotechnologically important yeasts. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 113: 9882-7.
  Pryszcz LP, Németh T, Saus E, Ksiezopolska E, Hegedüsová E, Nosek J, Wolfe KH, Gacser A, Gabaldón T. (2015) The Genomic Aftermath of Hybridization in the Opportunistic Pathogen Candida metapsilosis. PLoS Genet. 11: e1005626.
  Wolfe KH. (2015) Origin of the Yeast Whole-Genome Duplication. PLoS Biol. 13: e1002221.
  Kobayashi N, Suzuki Y, Schoenfeld LW, Müller CA, Nieduszynski C, Wolfe KH, Tanaka TU. (2015) Discovery of an unconventional centromere in budding yeast redefines evolution of point centromeres. Curr Biol. 25:m 2026-33.
  Wolfe KH, Armisén D, Proux-Wera E, ÓhÉigeartaigh SS, Azam H, Gordon JL, Byrne KP. (2015) Clade- and species-specific features of genome evolution in the Saccharomycetaceae. FEMS Yeast Res. 15: fov035
  Monerawela C, James TC, Wolfe KH, Bond U. (2015) Loss of lager specific genes and subtelomeric regions define two different Saccharomyces cerevisiae lineages for Saccharomyces pastorianus Group I and II strains. FEMS Yeast Res. 15.pii: fou008.
  Pitoniak A, Chavel CA, Chow J, Smith J, Camara D, Karunanithi S, Li B, Wolfe KH, Cullen PJ. (2015) Cdc42p-interacting protein Bem4p regulates the filamentous-growth mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway. Mol Cell Biol. 35: 417-36.
  Hanson SJ, Byrne KP, Wolfe KH. (2014) Mating-type switching by chromosomal inversion in methylotrophic yeasts suggests an origin for the three-locus Saccharomyces cerevisiae system. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 111: E4851-8
  OhÉigeartaigh SS, Armisén D, Byrne KP, Wolfe KH. (2014) SearchDOGS bacteria, software that provides automated identification of potentially missed genes in annotated bacterial genomes. J Bacteriol. 196: 2030-42.
  Maguire SL, Wang C, Holland LM, Brunel F, Neuvéglise C, Nicaud JM, Zavrel M, White TC, Wolfe KH, Butler G. (2014) Zinc finger transcription factors displaced SREBP proteins as the major Sterol regulators during Saccharomycotina evolution. PLoS Genet. 10: e1004076.
  Maguire S.L., OhÉigeartaigh S.S., Byrne K.P., Schröder M.S., O'Gaora P., Wolfe K.H. Butler G. (2013) Comparative genome analysis and gene finding in Candida species using CGOB. Mol Biol Evol. 30: 1281-91.
  Proux-Wéra E., Byrne K.P., Wolfe K.H. (2013) Evolutionary mobility of the ribosomal DNA array in yeasts. Genome Biol Evol. 5: 525-31.
  Proux-Wéra E., Armisén D., Byrne K.P., Wolfe K.H. (2012) A pipeline for automated annotation of yeast genome sequences by a conserved-synteny approach. BMC Bioinformatics. 13: 237
  Riccombeni A., Vidanes G., Proux-Wéra E., Wolfe K.H., Butler G. (2012) Sequence and analysis of the genome of the pathogenic yeast Candida orthopsilosis. PLoS One. 7: e35750.
PDF Gordon J.L., Armisién D., Proux-Wéra E., ÓhÉigeartaigh S.S., Byrne K.P. & Wolfe K.H. (2011) Evolutionary erosion of yeast sex chromosomes by mating-type switching accidents. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 108: 20024-9.
PDF Gordon J.L., Byrne K.P. & Wolfe K.H. (2011) Mechanisms of chromosome number evolution in yeast. PLoS Genet. 7, e1002190.
PDF OhÉigeartaigh S.S., Armisén D., Byrne K.P. & Wolfe K.H. (2011) Systematic discovery of unannotated genes in 11 yeast species using a database of orthologous genomic segments. BMC Genomics. 12, 377.
PDF Lane M.M., Burke N., Karreman R., Wolfe K.H., O'Byrne C.P. & Morrissey J.P. (2011) Physiological and metabolic diversity in the yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. 2011.
PDF Khaldi N. & Wolfe K.H. (2011) Evolutionary Origins of the Fumonisin Secondary Metabolite Gene Cluster in Fusarium verticillioides and Aspergillus niger. Int J Evol Biol. 2011, 423821.
PDF Magee A.M., Aspinall S., Rice D.W., Cusack B.P., Sémon M., Perry A.S., Stefanovic S., Milbourne D., Barth S., Palmer J.D., Gray J.C., Kavanagh T.A. & Wolfe K.H. (2010) Localized hypermutation and associated gene losses in legume chloroplast genomes. Genome Res. 20, 1700-10.
PDF Khaldi N., Seifuddin F.T., Turner G., Haft D., Nierman W.C., Wolfe K.H. & Fedorova N.D. (2010) SMURF: Genomic mapping of fungal secondary metabolite clusters. Fungal Genet Biol. 47, 736-41.
PDF Lynch D.B., Logue M.E., Butler G. & Wolfe K.H. (2010) Chromosomal G + C content evolution in yeasts: systematic interspecies differences, and GC-poor troughs at centromeres. Genome Biol Evol. 2, 572-83.
PDF Drinnenberg I.A., Weinberg D.E., Xie K.T., Mower J.P., Wolfe K.H., Fink G.R. & Bartel D.P. (2009) RNAi in budding yeast. Science. 326, 544-50.
PDF Frank A.C. & Wolfe K.H. (2009) Evolutionary capture of viral and plasmid DNA by yeast nuclear chromosomes. Eukaryot Cell. 8i, 1521-31.
PDF Diekmann K., Hodkinson T.R., Wolfe K.H., van den Bekerom R., Dix P.J. & Barth S. (2009) Complete chloroplast genome sequence of a major allogamous forage species, perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.). DNA Res. 16, 165-76.
PDF Gordon J.L., Byrne K.P. & Wolfe K.H. (2009) Additions, losses, and rearrangements on the evolutionary route from a reconstructed ancestor to the modern Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome. PLoS Genet. 5, e1000485.
PDF Gallagher J.E., Babiarz J.E., Teytelman L., Wolfe K.H. & Rine J. (2009) Elaboration, diversification and regulation of the Sir1 family of silencing proteins in Saccharomyces. Genetics. 181, 1477-91.
PDF Williams T.A., Wolfe K.H. & Fares M.A. (2009) No rosetta stone for a sense-antisense origin of aminoacyl tRNA synthetase classes. Mol Biol Evol. 26, 445-50.
PDF Conant G.C. & Wolfe K.H. (2008) Turning a hobby into a job: how duplicated genes find new functions. Nat Rev Genet. 9, 938-50.
PDF Khaldi, N. & Wolfe, K. H. (2008) Elusive origins of the extra genes in Aspergillus oryzae. PLoS ONE 3, e3036.
PDF Conant, G.C. & Wolfe, K.H. (2008) Probabilistic cross-species inference of orthologous genomic regions created by whole-genome duplication in yeast. Genetics 179, 1681-92.
PDF Semon, M. & Wolfe, K. H. (2008) Preferential subfunctionalization of slow-evolving genes in Xenopus laevis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105, 8333-8338.
PDF Gordon, J. L. & Wolfe, K. H. (2008) Recent allopolyploid origin of Zygosaccharomyces rouxii strain ATCC 42981. Yeast 25, 449-456.
PDF Fedorova, N. D., Khaldi, N., Joardar, V. S., Maiti, R., Amedeo, P., Anderson, M. J., Crabtree, J., Silva, J. C., Badger, J. H., Albarraq, A., Angiuoli, S., Bussey, H., Bowyer, P., Cotty, P. J., Dyer, P. S., Egan, A., Galens, K., Fraser-Liggett, C. M., Haas, B. J., Inman, J. M., Kent, R., Lemieux, S., Malavazi, I., Orvis, J., Roemer, T., Ronning, C. M., Sundaram, J. P., Sutton, G., Turner, G., Venter, J. C., White, O. R., Whitty, B. R., Youngman, P., Wolfe, K. H., Goldman, G. H., Wortman, J. R., Jiang, B., Denning, D. W. & Nierman, W. C. (2008) Genomic islands in the pathogenic filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus. PLoS Genet. 4, e1000046.
PDF Conant, G. C. & Wolfe, K. H. (2008) GenomeVx: simple web-based creation of editable circular chromosome maps. Bioinformatics 24, 861-862.
PDF Khaldi, N., Collemare, J., Lebrun, M. H. & Wolfe, K. H. (2008) Evidence for horizontal transfer of a secondary metabolite gene cluster between fungi. Genome Biol. 9, R18.
PDF Scannell, D. R. & Wolfe, K. H. (2008) A burst of protein sequence evolution and a prolonged period of asymmetric evolution follow gene duplication in yeast. Genome Res. 18, 137-147.
PDF Semon, M. & Wolfe, K. H. (2007) Consequences of genome duplication. Curr. Opin. Genet. Devel. 17, 505-512.
PDF Conant, G.C. & Wolfe, K.H. (2007) Increased glycolytic flux as an outcome of whole-genome duplication in yeast. Mol. Syst. Biol. 3: 129.
PDF Spillane, C., Schmid, K.J., Laoueille-Duprat, S., Pien, S., Escobar-Restrepo, J.M., Baroux, C., Gagliardini, V., Page, D.R., Wolfe, K.H. & Grossniklaus, U. (2007) Positive darwinian selection at the imprinted MEDEA locus in plants. Nature 448: 349-52.
PDF Scannell, D.R., Butler, G. & Wolfe, K.H. (2007) Yeast genome evolution-the origin of the species. Yeast 24: 929-42.
PDF Scannell, D.R., Frank, A.C., Conant, G.C., Byrne, K.P., Woolfit, M. & Wolfe, K.H. (2007) Independent sorting-out of thousands of duplicated gene pairs in two yeast species descended from a whole-genome duplication. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A 104: 8397-402.
PDF Cusack, B.P. & Wolfe, K.H. (2007) When gene marriages don't work out: divorce by subfunctionalization. Trends Genet. 23: 270-2.
PDF Woolfit, M., Rozpedowska, E., Piskur, J. & Wolfe, K.H. (2007) Genome survey sequencing of the wine spoilage yeast Dekkera (Brettanomyces) bruxellensis. Eukaryot. Cell 6: 721-33.
PDF Semon, M. & Wolfe, K.H. (2007) Reciprocal gene loss between Tetraodon and zebrafish after whole genome duplication in their ancestor. Trends Genet. 23: 108-12.
PDF Semon, M. & Wolfe, K.H. (2007) Rearrangement rate following the whole-genome duplication in teleosts. Mol. Biol. Evol. 24: 860-7.
PDF Byrne, K.P. & Wolfe, K.H. (2007) Consistent patterns of rate asymmetry and gene loss indicate widespread neofunctionalization of yeast genes after whole-genome duplication. Genetics 175: 1341-50.
PDF Cusack, B.P. & Wolfe, K.H. (2007) Not born equal: increased rate asymmetry in relocated and retrotransposed rodent gene duplicates. Mol. Biol. Evol. 24: 679-86.
PDF Drea, S.C., Lao, N.T., Wolfe, K.H. &, Kavanagh, T.A. (2006) Gene duplication, exon gain and neofunctionalization of OEP16-related genes in land plants. Plant J. 46: 723-35.
PDF Kosa, P., Valach, M., Tomaska, L., Wolfe, K.H. & Nosek, J. (2006) Complete DNA sequences of the mitochondrial genomes of the pathogenic yeasts Candida orthopsilosis and Candida metapsilosis: insight into the evolution of linear DNA genomes from mitochondrial telomere mutants. Nucleic Acids Res. 34: 2472-81.
PDF Conant, G. C. & Wolfe, K. H. (2006). Functional partitioning of yeast co-expression networks after genome duplication. PLoS Biol. 4, e109.
PDF Scannell, D. R.*, Byrne, K. P.*, Gordon, J. L., Wong, S. & Wolfe, K. H. (2006). Multiple rounds of speciation associated with reciprocal gene loss in polyploid yeasts. Nature 440, 341-345.
PDF Byrne, K. P. & Wolfe, K. H. (2006). Visualizing syntenic relationships among the hemiascomycetes with the Yeast Gene Order Browser. Nucleic Acids Res. 34, D452-455.
PDF Fares, M. A., Byrne, K. P. & Wolfe, K. H. (2006). Rate asymmetry after genome duplication causes substantial long-branch attraction artifacts in the phylogeny of Saccharomyces species. Mol. Biol. Evol. 23, 245-253.
PDF Wolfe, K. H. (2006). Comparative genomics and genome evolution in yeasts. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B. Biol. Sci. 361, 403-412.
PDF Wong, S. & Wolfe, K. H. (2006). Duplication of genes and genomes in yeasts. In Comparative genomics (Sunnerhagen, P. & Piskur, J., eds.), Vol. 15, pp. 78-99. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
PDF Byrne, K. P. & Wolfe, K. H. (2005). The Yeast Gene Order Browser: combining curated homology and syntenic context reveals gene fate in polyploid species. Genome Res. 15, 1456-1461.
PDF Cusack, B. P. & Wolfe, K. H. (2005). Changes in alternative splicing of human and mouse genes are accompanied by faster evolution of constitutive exons. Mol. Biol. Evol. 22, 2198-2208.
PDF Haber, J. E. & Wolfe, K. H. (2005). Evolution and function of HO and VDE endonucleases in fungi. In Inteins and homing endonucleases (Belfort, M., Derbyshire, V., Stoddard, B. & Wood, D., eds.), pp. 161-176. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
PDF Logue, M. E., Wong, S., Wolfe, K. H. & Butler, G. (2005). A genome sequence survey shows that the pathogenic yeast Candida parapsilosis has a defective MTLa1 at its mating type locus. Eukaryot. Cell 4, 1009-1017.
PDF Singer, G. A. C., Lloyd, A. T., Huminiecki, L. B. & Wolfe, K. H. (2005). Clusters of co-expressed genes in mammalian genomes are conserved by natural selection. Mol. Biol. Evol. 22, 767-775.
PDF Wong, S. & Wolfe, K. H. (2005). Birth of a metabolic gene cluster in yeast by adaptive gene relocation. Nature Genet. 37, 777-782.
PDF Woolfit, M. & Wolfe, K. (2005). The gene duplication that greased society's wheels. Nature Genet. 37, 566-567.
PDF Hokamp, K. & Wolfe, K. H. (2004). PubCrawler: keeping up comfortably with PubMed and GenBank. Nucleic Acids Res. 32, W16-W19.
PDF Huminiecki, L. & Wolfe, K. H. (2004). Divergence of spatial gene expression profiles following species-specific gene duplications in human and mouse. Genome Res. 14, 1870-1879.
PDF Nembaware, V., Wolfe, K. H., Bettoni, F., Kelso, J. & Seoighe, C. (2004). Allele-specific transcript isoforms in human. FEBS Lett. 577, 233-238.
PDF Blanc, G. & Wolfe, K. H. (2004a). Widespread paleopolyploidy in model plant species inferred from age distributions of duplicate genes. Plant Cell. 16, 1667-1678
PDF Blanc, G. & Wolfe, K. H. (2004b). Functional divergence of duplicated genes formed by polyploidy during Arabidopsis evolution. Plant Cell. 16, 1679-1691
PDF Coghlan, A. & Wolfe, K. H. (2004). Origins of recently gained introns in Caenorhabditis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 101, 11362-11367
PDF Butler, G., Kenny, C., Fagan, A., Kurischko, C., Gaillardin, C. & Wolfe, K. H. (2004). Evolution of the MAT locus and its Ho endonuclease in yeast species. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 1632-1637
PDF Wolfe, K. (2004). Evolutionary genomics: Yeasts accelerate beyond BLAST. Curr. Biol. 14, R392-R394
PDF Scannell, D.R. & Wolfe, K. H. (2004). Rewiring the transcriptional regulatory circuits of cells. Genome Biol. 5: 206.
PDF Fares, M.A. & Wolfe, K. H. (2003). Positive Selection and Sub-Functionalisation of Duplicated CCT Chaperonin Subunits. Mol. Biol. Evol. 20, 1588-1597
PDF Huminiecki, L., Lloyd, A.T. & Wolfe, K. H. (2003). Congruence of tissue expression profiles from Gene Expression Atlas, SAGEmap and TissueInfo databases. BMC Genomics 4, 31
PDF Hokamp, K., McLysaght, A. & Wolfe, K. H. (2003). The 2R hypothesis and the human genome sequence. Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics. 3: 95-110.
PDF Wong, S., Fares M.A., Zimmermann W., Butler G. & Wolfe, K. H. (2003). Evidence from comparative genomics for a complete sexual cycle in the 'asexual' pathogenic yeast Candida glabrata. Genome Biol. 4(2), R1O.
PDF Wolfe, K. H. & Li, W.H. (2003). Molecular evolution meets the genomics revolution. Nat Genet. 33 Suppl, 255-265.
PDF Hokamp, K., Shields D.C., Wolfe K.H. & Caffrey D.R. (2003). Wrapping up BLAST and other applications for use on Unix clusters. Bioinformatics 19(3), 441-442.
PDF Blanc, G., Hokamp, K. & Wolfe, K. H. (2003). A recent polyploidy superimposed on older large-scale duplications in the Arabidopsis genome. Genome Res. 13(2), 137-144.
PDF Perry, A. S. & Wolfe, K. H. (2002). Nucleotide substitution rates in legume chloroplast DNA depend on the presence of the inverted repeat. J Mol Evol 55, 501-508.
PDF Perry, A. S., Brennan, S., Murphy, D. J., Kavanagh, T. A. & Wolfe, K. H. (2002). Evolutionary re-organisation of a large operon in adzuki bean chloroplast DNA caused by inverted repeat movement. DNA Res 9, 157-162.
PDF Walsh, D. W., Wolfe, K. H. & Butler, G. (2002). Genomic differences between Candida glabrata and Saccharomyces cerevisiae at the MRPL28 and GCN3 loci. Yeast 19, 991-994.
PDF Wong, S., Butler, G. and Wolfe, K.H. (2002). Gene order evolution and paleopolyploidy in hemiascomycete yeasts. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99(14), 9272-9277.
PDF McLysaght, A., Hokamp K, and Wolfe, K.H. (2002). Extensive genomic duplication during early chordate evolution. Nat Genet 31(2), 200-204.
PDF Coghlan, A. and Wolfe, K.H. (2002). Fourfold faster rate of genome rearrangement in nematodes than in Drosophila. Genome Res 12(6), 857-867.
PDF Coghlan, A., Mac Donaill, D.A. and Buttimore, N.H. (2001). Representation of amino acids as five-bit or three-bit patterns for filtering protein databases. Bioinformatics 17, 676-685.
PDF Millen, R.S., Olmstead, R.G., Adams, K.L., Palmer, J.D., Lao, N.T., Heggie, L., Kavanagh, T.A., Hibberd, J.M., Gray, J.C., Morden, C.W., Calie, P.J., Jermiin, L.S. and Wolfe, K.H. (2001). Many parallel losses of infA from chloroplast DNA during angiosperm evolution with multiple independent transfers to the nucleus. Plant Cell 13, 645-658.
PDF Wolfe, K.H. (2001). Yesterday's polyploids and the mystery of diploidization. Nature Reviews Genet. 2, 333-341.
McLysaght, A., Seoighe, C. and Wolfe, K. (2000). High frequency of inversions during eukaryote gene order evolution. In Comparative Genomics: Empirical and Analytical Approaches to Gene Order Dynamics, Map Alignment and the Evolution of Gene Families (Sankoff, D. & Nadeau, J. H., eds.), pp. 47-58. Kluwer Academic Press, Dordrecht.
PDF Lander, E.S. et al. (2001) Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome. Nature 409, 860-921.
PDF Seoighe, C., Federspiel, N., Jones, T., Hansen, N., Bivolarovic, V., Surzycki, R., Tamse, R., Komp, C., Huizar, L., Davis, R.W., Scherer, S., Tait, E., Shaw, D.J., Harris, D., Murphy, L., Oliver, K., Taylor, K., Rajandream, M.-A., Barrell, B.G. & Wolfe, K.H. (2000) Prevalence of small inversions in yeast gene order evolution. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97, 14433-14437.
PDF Coghlan, A. & Wolfe, K.H. (2000) Relationship of codon bias to mRNA concentration and protein length in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast 16, 1131-1145.
PDF McLysaght, A., Enright, A.J., Skrabanek, L. & Wolfe, K.H. (2000) Estimation of synteny conservation and genome compaction between pufferfish (Fugu) and human. Yeast 17, 22-36.
PDF Averof, M., Rokas, A., Wolfe, K.H. & Sharp, P.M. (2000) Evidence for a high frequency of simultaneous double-nucleotide substitutions. Science 287, 1283-1286.
PDF Hokamp, K. and Wolfe, K.H. (1999) What's new in the library? What's new in GenBank? Let PubCrawler tell you. Trends Genet. 15, 471-472.
PDF Seoighe, C. and Wolfe, K.H. (1999). Updated map of duplicated regions in the yeast genome. Gene 238, 253-261.
PDF Seoighe, C. and Wolfe, K.H. (1999) Yeast genome evolution in the post-genome era. Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 2, 548-554.
PDF Bradnam, K.R., Seoighe, C., Sharp, P.M. and Wolfe, K.H. (1999). G+C content variation along and among Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosomes. Mol. Biol. Evol. 16, 666-675.
Tort, J., Brindey, P. J., Knox, D., Wolfe, K. H. and Dalton, J. P. (1999) Proteinases and associated genes of parasitic helminths. Advances in Parasitology 43, 161-266.
PDF Semple, C. and Wolfe, K.H. (1999) Gene duplication and gene conversion in the Caenorhabditis elegans genome. J. Mol. Evol. 48, 555-564.
PDF Lafay, B., Lloyd, A.T., McLean, M.J., Devine, K.M., Sharp, P.M. and Wolfe, K.H. (1999) Proteome composition and codon usage in spirochaetes: species-specific and DNA strand-specific mutation biases. Nucleic Acids Res. 27, 1642-1649.
PDF McLean, M.J., Wolfe, K.H. and Devine, K.M. (1998) Base composition skews, replication orientation, and gene orientation in 12 prokaryote genomes. J. Mol. Evol. 47, 691-696.
PDF Skrabanek, L and Wolfe, K.H. (1998) Eukaryote genome duplication - where's the evidence? Curr. Opin. Genet. Devel. 8, 694-700.
PDF Lohan, A.J. and Wolfe, K.H. (1998) A subset of conserved tRNA genes in plastid DNA of nongreen plants. Genetics 150, 425-433.
PDF Seoighe, C. and Wolfe, K.H. (1998) Extent of genomic rearrangement after genome duplication in yeast. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 4447-4452.
PDF Keogh, R.S., Seoighe, C and Wolfe, K.H. (1998) Evolution of gene order and chromosome number in Saccharomyces, Kluyveromyces and related fungi. Yeast 14, 443-457.
PDF Wolfe, K.H. and Shields, D.C. (1997) Molecular evidence for an ancient duplication of the entire yeast genome. Nature 387, 708-713.
Dujon, B. et al. (1997) The nucleotide sequence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosome XV. Nature 387 (suppl.) 98-102.
PDF Shields, D.C. and Wolfe, K.H. (1997) Accelerated evolution of sites undergoing mRNA editing in plant mitochondria and chloroplasts. Mol. Biol. Evol. 14, 344-349.
Parle-McDermott, A.G., Hand, N.J., Goulding, S.E. and Wolfe, K.H. (1996) Sequence of 29 kb around the PDR10 locus on the right arm of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosome XV: similarity to part of chromosome I. Yeast 12, 999-1004.
Goulding, S.E., Olmstead, R.G., Morden, C.W. and Wolfe, K.H. (1996) Ebb and Flow of the Chloroplast Inverted Repeat. Mol. Gen. Genet. 252, 195-206.
Wolfe, K.H. (1996) Molecular evolution of plants: more genomes, fewer generalities. In Molecular Genetics of Photosynthesis (J. Barber and B. Andersson, eds.), volume in Frontiers of Molecular Biology series (D. Hames and D. Glover, eds.). IRL Press, Oxford.
Ems, S.C., Morden C.W., Dixon, C.K., Wolfe, K.H., dePamphilis, C.W. and Palmer, J.D. (1995) Transcription, splicing and editing of plastid RNAs in the nonphotosynthetic plant Epifagus virginiana. Plant Mol. Biol. 29, 721-733.
Feldmann, H. et al. (1994) Complete DNA sequence of yeast chromosome II. EMBO J. 13, 5795-5809.
Butler, G. and Wolfe, K.H. (1994) Yeast homologue of mammalian Ran binding protein 1. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1219, 711-712.
Wolfe, K.H. and Lohan, A.J.E. (1994) Sequence around the centromere of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosome II: similarity of CEN2 to CEN4. Yeast 10, S41-S46.
Wolfe, K.H. (1994) Similarity between putative ATP-binding sites in land plant plastid ORF2280 proteins and the FtsH/CDC48 family of ATPases. Curr. Genet. 25, 379-383.
Downie, S.R., Katz-Downie, D.S., Wolfe, K.H., Calie, P.J. and Palmer, J.D. (1994) Structure and evolution of the largest chloroplast gene (ORF2280): internal plasticity and multiple gene loss during angiosperm evolution. Curr. Genet. 25, 367-378.
Sharp, P.M. and Wolfe, K.H. (1993) Identification of a Candida utilis gene encoding ribosomal protein L7: evidence for two divergent subclasses of the eukaryotic ribosomal protein L7 family. Nucleic Acids Res. 21, 3557.
Wolfe, K.H. and Sharp, P.M. (1993) Mammalian gene evolution: Nucleotide sequence divergence between mouse and rat. J. Mol. Evol. 37, 441-456.
Olmstead, R.G., Sweere, J.A. and Wolfe, K.H. (1993) Ninety extra nucleotides in ndhF gene of tobacco chloroplast DNA: a summary of revisions to the 1986 genome sequence. Plant Mol. Biol. 22, 1191-1193.
Wolfe, K.H., Morden, C.W. and Palmer, J.D. (1992) Function and evolution of a minimal plastid genome from a nonphotosynthetic parasitic plant. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89, 10648-10652.
Wolfe, K.H., Morden, C.W., Ems, S.C. and Palmer, J.D. (1992) Rapid evolution of the plastid translational apparatus in a nonphotosynthetic plant: loss or accelerated sequence evolution of tRNA and ribosomal protein genes. J. Mol. Evol. 35, 304-317.
Wolfe, K.H., Katz-Downie, D.S., Morden, C.W. and Palmer, J.D. (1992) Evolution of the plastid ribosomal RNA operon in a nongreen parasitic plant: accelerated sequence evolution, altered promoter structure, and tRNA pseudogenes. Plant Mol. Biol. 18, 1037-1048.
Wolfe, K.H., Morden, C.W. and Palmer, J.D. (1992) Small single-copy region of plastid DNA in the non-photosynthetic angiosperm Epifagus virginiana contains only two genes: differences among dicots, monocots and bryophytes in gene organization at a non-bioenergetic locus. J. Mol. Biol. 223, 95-104.
Bulmer, M., Wolfe, K.H. and Sharp, P.M. (1991) Synonymous nucleotide substitution rates in mammalian genes: implications for the molecular clock and the relationships of mammalian orders. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88, 5974-5978.
Wolfe, K.H. (1991) Mammalian DNA replication: mutation biases and the mutation rate. J. Theor. Biol. 149, 441-451.
Wolfe, K.H., Morden, C.W. and Palmer, J.D. (1991) Ins and outs of plastid genome evolution. Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev. 1, 523-529.
Morden, C.W., Wolfe, K.H., dePamphilis, C.W. and Palmer, J.D. (1991) Plastid translation and transcription genes in a non-photosynthetic plant: intact, missing and pseudo genes. EMBO J. 10, 3281-3288.
Taylor, G.W., Wolfe, K.H., Morden, C.W., dePamphilis, C.W. and Palmer, J.D. (1991) Lack of a functional plastid tRNA-Cys gene is associated with loss of photosynthesis in a lineage of parasitic plants. Curr. Genet. 20, 515-518.
Wolfe, K.H. (1991) Protein-coding genes in chloroplast DNA: compilation of nucleotide sequences, database entries, and rates of molecular evolution. Chapter 15 in Cell Culture and Somatic Cell Genetics of Plants, vol. 7B (L. Bogorad and I.K. Vasil, eds.). Academic Press, New York.
Lu, Q., Wolfe, K.H. and McConnell, D.J. (1990) Genomic sequences encoding a novel bovine aspartic proteinase. J. Chinese Agr. Assoc. Stud. Schol. 1, 151-157.
Sharp, P.M., Shields, D.C., Wolfe, K.H. and Li, W.-H. (1989) Chromosomal location and evolutionary rate variation in enterobacterial genes. Science 246, 808-810.
Wolfe, K.H., Sharp, P.M. and Li, W.-H. (1989) Mutation rates differ among regions of the mammalian genome. Nature 337, 283-285.
Wolfe, K.H., Sharp, P.M. and Li, W.-H. (1989) Rates of synonymous substitution in plant nuclear genes. J. Mol. Evol. 29, 208-211.
Wolfe, K.H., Gouy, M., Yang, Y.-W., Sharp, P.M. and Li, W.-H. (1989) Date of the monocot-dicot divergence estimated from chloroplast DNA sequence data. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86, 6201-6205.
Wolfe, K.H. (1989) Compilation of sequences of protein-coding genes in chloroplast DNA including cyanelle and cyanobacterial homologues. Plant Mol. Biol. Reporter 7, 30-48.
Sharp, P.M., Cowe, E., Higgins, D.G., Shields, D.C., Wolfe, K.H. and Wright, F. (1988) Codon usage patterns in Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Homo sapiens; a review of the considerable within-species diversity. Nucleic Acids Res. 16, 8207-8211.
Wolfe, K.H. and Sharp, P.M. (1988) Identification of functional open reading frames in chloroplast genomes. Gene 66, 215-222.
Wolfe, K.H. (1988) The site of deletion of the inverted repeat in pea chloroplast DNA contains duplicated gene fragments. Curr. Genet. 13, 97-99.
Lu, Q., Wolfe, K.H. and McConnell, D.J. (1988) Molecular cloning of multiple bovine aspartyl protease genes. Gene 71, 135-146.
Wolfe, K.H., Li, W.-H. and Sharp, P.M. (1987) Rates of nucleotide substitution vary greatly among plant mitochondrial, chloroplast and nuclear DNAs. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 84, 9054-9058.
Li, W.-H., Wolfe, K.H., Sourdis, J. and Sharp, P.M. (1987) Reconstruction of phylogenetic trees and estimation of divergence times under nonconstant rates of evolution. Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 52, 847-856.
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