Genes acquired by horizontal transfer are potentially involved in the evolution of phytopathogenicity in moniliophthora perniciosa and moniliophthora roreri, two of the major pathogens of cacao

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 85-97

  Tiburcio, Ricardo Augusto ^a   Costa, Gustavo Gilson Lacerda ^a   Carazzolle, Marcelo Falsarella ^a   Mondego, Jorge Mauŕcio Costa ^a,b   Schuster, Stephen C ^c   Carlson, John E ^c   Guiltinan, Mark J ^c   Bailey, Bryan A ^d   Mieczkowski, Piotr ^e   Meinhardt, Lyndel W ^d   Pereira, Gonçalo Amarante Guimarães ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO AGRONÔMICO   (Brazil)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cacao; Frosty pod rot; Horizontal gene transfer; Moniliophthora perniciosa; Moniliophthora roreri; Witches broom disease

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; HYDROLASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; BAYES THEOREM; CACAO; ENZYMOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIOLOGY; NECROSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; BAYES THEOREM; CACAO; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HYDROLASES; NECROSIS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CHAETOCALATHUS; CRINIPELLIS; CRINIPELLIS RORERI; FIRMICUTES; MARASMIUS; MONILIOPHTHORA; OOMYCETES; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 76749091910     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-009-9311-9     Document Type: Article

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