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Pontes A, Paraiso F, Silva M, Lagoas C, Aires A, Brito P, et al.
BMC Biol . 2024 May; 22(1):128. PMID: 38816863
Background: In yeasts belonging to the subphylum Saccharomycotina, genes encoding components of the main metabolic pathways, like alcoholic fermentation, are usually conserved. However, in fructophilic species belonging to the floral...
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Marques G, Teles-Reis J, Konstantinides N, Brito P, Homem C
PLoS Biol . 2023 May; 21(5):e3002115. PMID: 37205703
Neuron specification and maturation are essential for proper central nervous system development. However, the precise mechanisms that govern neuronal maturation, essential to shape and maintain neuronal circuitry, remain poorly understood....
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Brandao A, Borbinha J, Pereira T, Brito P, Lourenco R, Bensimon-Brito A, et al.
Elife . 2022 Aug; 11. PMID: 35993337
Regeneration depends on the ability of mature cells at the injury site to respond to injury, generating tissue-specific progenitors that incorporate the blastema and proliferate to reconstitute the original organ...
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Alves-Barroco C, Brito P, Santos-Sanches I, Fernandes A
Front Microbiol . 2022 Aug; 13:952110. PMID: 35928143
Streptococcus dysgalactiae (SD) is capable of infecting both humans and animals and causing a wide range of invasive and non-invasive infections. With two subspecies, the taxonomic status of subspecies of...
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Silva M, Pontes A, Franco-Duarte R, Soares P, Sampaio J, Sousa M, et al.
Mol Ecol . 2022 Mar; 32(10):2396-2412. PMID: 35298044
Microbe domestication has a major applied relevance but is still poorly understood from an evolutionary perspective. The yeast Torulaspora delbrueckii is gaining importance for biotechnology but little is known about...
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Santos A, Aires A, Pontes A, Silva M, Brito P, Groenewald M, et al.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol . 2021 Nov; 71(11). PMID: 34726589
During studies of yeasts associated with soil in a Cerrado-Atlantic Rain Forest ecotone site in Brazil, three orange-pigmented yeast strains were isolated from samples collected in Minas Gerais state, Brazil....
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Cabrita A, David-Palma M, Brito P, Heitman J, Coelho M, Goncalves P
mBio . 2021 Feb; 12(1). PMID: 33593979
Sexual reproduction in fungi relies on proteins with well-known functions encoded by the mating type () loci. In the Basidiomycota, loci are often bipartite, with the locus encoding pheromone precursors...
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David-Palma M, Libkind D, Brito P, Silva M, Bellora N, Coelho M, et al.
Microorganisms . 2020 Oct; 8(11). PMID: 33114402
is an orange-colored basidiomycetous yeast genus of the order Cystofilobasidiales that contains a single species, . This species is the only fungus known to produce the economically relevant carotenoid astaxanthin....
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Pontes A, Hutzler M, Brito P, Sampaio J
Microorganisms . 2020 Jun; 8(6). PMID: 32549402
-the most emblematic and industrially relevant yeast-has a long list of taxonomical synonyms. Formerly considered as distinct species, some of the synonyms represent variants with important industrial implications, like or...
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Goncalves P, Goncalves C, Brito P, Sampaio J
Yeast . 2020 Feb; 37(4):313-320. PMID: 32061177
The Wickerhamiella and Starmerella genera form a clade (W/S clade) that branches close to Yarrowia lipolytica in the Saccharomycotina species tree. It comprises approximately 90 recognized species and 50 putative...