Yu‐Ching Liu

The paper samples and analyzes Saccharomycotina yeasts in subtropical forest leaf litter, revealing high culturable diversity and seasonal dynamics linked to climate factors.

This paper establishes a haploid yeast strain collection to study ecological and reproductive divergence in wild S. cerevisiae, finding that structural genomic variation and metabolic gene divergence drive these traits.

The paper examines fungal community composition across contiguous habitats in tropical forests, finding that spatial scale and habitat influence assembly processes differently, with deterministic and stochastic factors shaping communities in leaves/twigs versus soil.

The paper uses MDA and ONT to sequence genomes and transcriptomes of nematodes, revealing genome diversity and phylogenetic relationships.

The paper analyzes six Aphelenchoides genomes to identify horizontal gene transfers in the last common ancestor of free-living and plant-parasitic nematodes, revealing major HGT events from bacteria, fungi, and plants.

This study samples S. cerevisiae genetic diversity in Taiwan, revealing nine lineages, historical admixture, and clonal reproduction, highlighting its natural diversity before human domestication.

The paper uses genomic data from Mortierella species to improve in silico prediction of soil mycobiome functions across Taiwan's offshore islands.

The paper sequenced genomes of five bioluminescent Mycena fungi to study the evolution of luciferase clusters and bioluminescence, finding that the trait originated in a common ancestor and was lost in some lineages.