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Experimental approaches to study evolutionary cell biology using yeasts.

Mariana Natalino¹, Marco Fumasoni¹

¹Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal.

Yeast (Chichester, England)

|March 10, 2023

Summary

Evolutionary cell biology investigates how cellular processes evolve. Yeasts offer a powerful experimental system, an "evolutionary cell lab," to study this evolution and its implications for broader biological understanding.

Keywords:

S. cerevisiae cell biology evolution experimental evolution molecular biology yeasts

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Area of Science:

Evolutionary biology
Cell biology
Molecular biology

Background:

Cellular function understanding has advanced, but evolutionary origins remain unclear.
Comparative genomics reveals significant molecular diversity in cellular processes across species.
The evolutionary history of extant cells is largely unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

To establish evolutionary cell biology as a discipline integrating evolutionary, molecular, and cellular perspectives.
To propose yeasts as an experimental model system for studying the evolution of cellular processes.
To explore how yeasts can serve as an 'evolutionary cell lab'.

Main Methods:

Investigating fast adaptive evolution of essential molecular processes (e.g., DNA replication) under laboratory conditions.
Utilizing yeasts for experimental evolution studies due to their rapid adaptation.
Leveraging existing yeast genomic, synthetic, and cellular biology tools.

Main Results:

Essential molecular processes can evolve rapidly under specific conditions.
Yeasts provide a tractable system for observing and experimenting with evolutionary adaptation.
A wide array of tools exists for yeast-based evolutionary cell biology research.

Conclusions:

Yeasts are ideal for testing hypotheses in evolutionary cell biology.
Experimental investigation of cellular process evolution is now feasible.
This research approach offers broad benefits to the field of biology.