Rike Bahati Stelkens

Strong habitat-associated differentiation of microbial communities across a fine-scale land-water interface

The paper examines microbial community differentiation across a land-water interface, finding strong habitat-associated differences between terrestrial and aquatic samples.

Repeated heat waves trigger divergent transcriptional responses in cold- and warm-adapted yeast species

This study shows that repeated heat waves induce different transcriptional responses in cold- and warm-adapted yeast species, with memory-like responses being species-specific.

Mitochondrial inheritance as an important parameter for the rational design of synthetic yeast polyploids

The paper shows mitochondrial inheritance significantly affects allopolyploid fitness, highlighting its importance in synthetic yeast strain design.

The mode and repeatability of thermal adaptation in gene expression in the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus

This study investigates thermal adaptation in gene expression of Callosobruchus maculatus through experimental evolution, finding genetic compensation dominates cold adaptation while heat adaptation shows mixed modes with greater repeatability.

Convergent targeting of conserved regulatory networks during thermal evolution across Saccharomyces

This study shows that thermal adaptation across yeast species involves convergent changes in conserved regulatory networks, despite divergent phenotypic outcomes.

The long-term evolutionary potential of four yeast species and their hybrids in extreme temperature conditions

This study examines the long-term thermal adaptation of four yeast species and their hybrids over 140 generations under extreme cold and warm conditions, finding hybrids show greater fitness improvements and resilience.

Reproductive isolation due to divergent ecological selection is accompanied by vast genomic instability in experimentally evolved yeast populations

This study shows that divergent ecological selection in yeast leads to reproductive isolation and genomic instability through hybrid breakdown and structural variants.

Reconstructing NOD-like receptor alleles with high internal conservation in Podospora anserina using long-read sequencing

The paper reconstructs NOD-like receptor alleles in Podospora anserina using long-read sequencing, revealing structural and functional insights into incompatibility genes.

Fermentative yeast diversity at the northern range limit of their oak tree hosts

The paper investigates yeast diversity on oak trees at their northern range limit in Sweden, finding temperature and precipitation influence distribution, and older trees host more diverse communities.

Strong Selection, but low repeatability: Temperature-specific effects on genomic predictions of adaptation

The paper tests how temperature affects genomic predictions of adaptation by evolving beetles under hot and cold conditions, finding faster phenotypic evolution at hot temperatures but less genomic repeatability.

Commercial Saccharomyces cerevisiae baker's yeasts: strain redundancy, genome plasticity, and colonization of the sourdough environment and the human body

The paper analyzes commercial Saccharomyces cerevisiae baker's yeasts, revealing strain redundancy, genome plasticity, and limited colonization of human niches compared to commercial strains.

Harnessing the power of technical and natural variation in 116 yeast datasets to benchmark long read assembly pipelines

The paper benchmarks long-read assembly pipelines using 116 yeast datasets, finding that combining pre-assembly short-read error correction with post-assembly polishing yields the best results.

Genomic evidence of an early evolutionary divergence event in wild Saccharomyces cerevisiae

The paper presents seven new long-read genomes of wild Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains from East Asia, revealing early divergence and structural variation in their evolutionary history.