Genome evolution in filamentous plant pathogens: Why bigger can be better

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 417-430

  Raffaele, Sylvain ^a   Kamoun, Sophien ^a  

^a SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; GLYCOSIDASE; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PEPTIDASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; COEVOLUTION; DNA RECOMBINATION; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTION; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME SIZE; ISOCHORE; NECTRIA HAEMATOCOCCA; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PLANT DISEASE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASTICITY; POINT MUTATION; POLYMYXA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; USTILAGO MAYDIS; VIRULENCE;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; GENOME, FUNGAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PLANT DISEASES; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; OOMYCETES;

EID: 84861182813     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2790     Document Type: Review

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