Clifford W Zeyl

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Affiliation: Wake Forest University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Experimental studies on ploidy evolution in yeast
    Clifford Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC 27109, USA
    FEMS Microbiol Lett 233:187-92. 2004
  2. ncbi The role of sex in fungal evolution
    Clifford Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, P O Box 7325, Winston Salem, NC 27109, USA
    Curr Opin Microbiol 12:592-8. 2009
  3. ncbi The advantage of sex in evolving yeast populations
    C Zeyl
    Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824, USA
    Nature 388:465-8. 1997
  4. ncbi Evolutionary genetics: a piggyback ride to adaptation and diversity
    Clifford Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27109, USA
    Curr Biol 17:R333-5. 2007
  5. ncbi A short history of recombination in yeast
    Clifford W Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC 27109, USA
    Trends Ecol Evol 22:223-5. 2007
  6. ncbi Experimental evolution with yeast
    Clifford Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC 27109, USA
    FEMS Yeast Res 6:685-91. 2006
  7. ncbi Antagonism between sexual and natural selection in experimental populations of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Clifford Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, P O Box 7325, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27109, USA
    Evolution 59:2109-15. 2005
  8. ncbi Nuclear-mitochondrial epistasis for fitness in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Clifford Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, PO Box 7325, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27109, USA
    Evolution 59:910-4. 2005
  9. ncbi The number of mutations selected during adaptation in a laboratory population of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Clifford Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27109, USA
    Genetics 169:1825-31. 2005
  10. ncbi Capturing the adaptive mutation in yeast
    Clifford Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, P O Box 7325, Winston Salem, NC 27109, USA
    Res Microbiol 155:217-23. 2004

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Publications20

  1. ncbi Experimental studies on ploidy evolution in yeast
    Clifford Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC 27109, USA
    FEMS Microbiol Lett 233:187-92. 2004
    ..A convincing longer-term advantage for diploidy has proven elusive, and different evolutionary explanations for the origin and for the subsequent maintenance of diploidy may be required...
  2. ncbi The role of sex in fungal evolution
    Clifford Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, P O Box 7325, Winston Salem, NC 27109, USA
    Curr Opin Microbiol 12:592-8. 2009
    ....
  3. ncbi The advantage of sex in evolving yeast populations
    C Zeyl
    Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824, USA
    Nature 388:465-8. 1997
    ....
  4. ncbi Evolutionary genetics: a piggyback ride to adaptation and diversity
    Clifford Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27109, USA
    Curr Biol 17:R333-5. 2007
    ..Competition between adaptive mutations in different asexual lineages limits the rate of adaptation. But additional adaptive mutations can occur in lineages that already have one, altering the dynamics of evolving asexual populations...
  5. ncbi A short history of recombination in yeast
    Clifford W Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC 27109, USA
    Trends Ecol Evol 22:223-5. 2007
    ....
  6. ncbi Experimental evolution with yeast
    Clifford Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC 27109, USA
    FEMS Yeast Res 6:685-91. 2006
    ..This minireview briefly describes some recent contributions of yeast experiments to current understanding of the evolution of ploidy, sex, mutation, and speciation...
  7. ncbi Antagonism between sexual and natural selection in experimental populations of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Clifford Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, P O Box 7325, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27109, USA
    Evolution 59:2109-15. 2005
    ..Thus, evolutionary history affected the evolution of genetic correlations, as fitness increases in a population already well adapted to the environment were more likely to come at the expense of sexual functions...
  8. ncbi Nuclear-mitochondrial epistasis for fitness in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Clifford Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, PO Box 7325, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27109, USA
    Evolution 59:910-4. 2005
    ..These results indicate that cytonuclear interactions analogous to those already known from plants and animals can evolve rapidly on an evolutionary timescale...
  9. ncbi The number of mutations selected during adaptation in a laboratory population of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Clifford Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27109, USA
    Genetics 169:1825-31. 2005
    ..These backcrosses also indicated that deleterious mutations had hitchhiked with adaptive mutations in this evolved genotype...
  10. ncbi Capturing the adaptive mutation in yeast
    Clifford Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, P O Box 7325, Winston Salem, NC 27109, USA
    Res Microbiol 155:217-23. 2004
    ..Estimated rates of adaptive mutation are on the order of 1 in 10(11) cell divisions. There remains great potential for the genomic study of variation within yeast species to contribute to our understanding of adaptive mutation...
  11. ncbi Budding yeast as a model organism for population genetics
    C Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC 27109, USA
    Yeast 16:773-84. 2000
    ..Conversely, the redundancy of the yeast genome means that, for many open reading frames, deletion has only a quantitative effect that is most readily observed in competitions with a wild-type strain...
  12. ncbi Estimates of the rate and distribution of fitness effects of spontaneous mutation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    C Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27109, USA
    Genetics 157:53-61. 2001
    ..Inactivation of mismatch repair increases the frequency of slightly deleterious mutations by approximately two orders of magnitude...
  13. ncbi Mutational meltdown in laboratory yeast populations
    C Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27109, USA
    Evolution 55:909-17. 2001
    ..Wild-type populations showed no trend to decrease in size and, on average, they increased in fitness...
  14. ncbi An evolutionary advantage of haploidy in large yeast populations
    Clifford Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC 27109, USA
    Science 299:555-8. 2003
    ..Adaptive mutations were on average partially recessive. As predicted, diploidy slowed adaptation by large populations but not by small populations...
  15. ncbi The effects of sex and mutation rate on adaptation in test tubes and to mouse hosts by Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Brian Grimberg
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27109, USA
    Evolution Int J Org Evolution 59:431-8. 2005
    ..Increased rates of point mutation do not appear to accelerate adaptation...
  16. ncbi Prezygotic isolation between Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces paradoxus through differences in mating speed and germination timing
    Helen A Murphy
    Department of Biology, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187 8795, USA
    Evolution 66:1196-209. 2012
    ..Our results indicate that the mechanisms of allochronic isolation that are well known in plants and animals can also operate in sexual microbes...
  17. ncbi Evolutionary genetics: choosing to evolve
    Clifford Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27109, USA
    Curr Biol 16:R87-9. 2006
    ....
  18. ncbi Conflicting levels of selection in the accumulation of mitochondrial defects in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Douglas R Taylor
    Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904 4328, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:3690-4. 2002
    ..The relative intensities of within- and among-cell selection may also explain the tissue specificity of human mitochondrial defects...
  19. ncbi Yeast sex: surprisingly high rates of outcrossing between asci
    Helen A Murphy
    Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 5:e10461. 2010
    ..Confinement within the ascus is thought to enforce mating between products of the same meiotic division, minimizing outcrossing in this stage of the life cycle...
  20. ncbi Evolutionary genetics: desperate times call for more sex
    Clifford Zeyl
    Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC 27109, USA
    Curr Biol 20:R637-9. 2010
    ..A new study has found that strains of the fungus Aspergillus nidulans produce more of their spores sexually in environments where they are less fit, resembling a hypothesized transitional stage in the evolution of sex...