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Caiti Smukowski Heil

North Carolina State University
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[HTML][HTML] History and domestication of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in bread baking

…, A Madden, RR Dunn, C Smukowski Heil - Frontiers in genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been instrumental in the fermentation of foods and
beverages for millennia. In addition to fermentations like wine, beer, cider, sake, and bread, …

[HTML][HTML] Loss of heterozygosity and its importance in evolution

C Smukowski Heil - Journal of Molecular Evolution, 2023 - Springer
C, whereas the loss of the S. uvarum allele at the same locus increases fitness by 25.57%
at 30 C (Smukowski Heil … in hybrids evolved in low phosphate (Smukowski Heil et al. 2017). …

Loss of heterozygosity drives adaptation in hybrid yeast

CS Smukowski Heil, CG DeSevo, DA Pai… - Molecular biology …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
… (median 158) at 30 C, except for S. uvarum, which was unable to achieve steady state in
all conditions at 30 C and so was evolved at 25 C. The population sizes were largely similar …

Recombining without Hotspots: A Comprehensive Evolutionary Portrait of Recombination in Two Closely Related Species of Drosophila

CS Smukowski Heil, C Ellison, M Dubin… - Genome biology and …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Smukowski Heil , … Smukowski Heil * … melanogaster (0.47), falling between C. elegans
(0.28) and Saccharomyces cerevisiae (0.64) ( Kaur and Rockman 2014 ). This supports the …

Transposable element mobilization in interspecific yeast hybrids

C Smukowski Heil, K Patterson… - Genome Biology and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… All transposition assays were conducted at the standard 20 C in this study, but future
work could explore how temperature impacts transposition rate in non S. cerevisiae species, …

[HTML][HTML] Temperature preference can bias parental genome retention during hybrid evolution

CS Smukowski Heil, CRL Large, K Patterson… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Interspecific hybridization can introduce genetic variation that aids in adaptation to new or
changing environments. Here, we investigate how hybrid adaptation to temperature and …

Sugar‐seeking insects as a source of diverse bread‐making yeasts with enhanced attributes

…, LM Nichols, MD Calvert, RR Dunn, C Smukowski Heil - Yeast, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… We baked the dough for 10 min at 232C in a half size countertop convection oven (Avantco
CO-16 Half Size Countertop Convection Oven 117CO16 120). Positive and negative …

Identification of a novel interspecific hybrid yeast from a metagenomic spontaneously inoculated beer sample using Hi‐C

C Smukowski Heil, JN Burton, I Liachko, A Friedrich… - Yeast, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… We have previously adapted the chromosome conformation capture method Hi‐C to the …
Our work shows that Hi‐C‐based metagenomic methods can overcome the limitation of …

[HTML][HTML] Loss of heterozygosity and its importance in evolution

CS Heil - Journal of molecular evolution, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
C, whereas the loss of the S. uvarum allele at the same locus increases fitness by 25.57%
at 30 C (Smukowski Heil … in hybrids evolved in low phosphate (Smukowski Heil et al. 2017). …

[HTML][HTML] Loss of heterozygosity drives adaptation in hybrid yeast

CSS Heil, CG DeSevo, DA Pai, CM Tucker… - … biology and evolution, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… (median 158) at 30 C, except for S. uvarum, which was unable to achieve steady state in
all conditions at 30 C and so was evolved at 25 C. The population sizes were largely similar …