The Genomes of the Fungal Plant Pathogens Cladosporium fulvum and Dothistroma septosporum Reveal Adaptation to Different Hosts and Lifestyles But Also Signatures of Common Ancestry

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  de Wit, Pierre J G M ^a,b   van der Burgt, Ate ^a   Ökmen, Bilal ^a   Stergiopoulos, Ioannis ^a,b,c   Abd Elsalam, Kamel A ^d   Aerts, Andrea L ^e   Bahkali, Ali H ^f   Beenen, Henriek G ^a   Chettri, Pranav ^g   Cox, Murray P ^g   Datema, Erwin ^a,h   de Vries, Ronald P ⁱ   Dhillon, Braham ^j   Ganley, Austen R ^k   Griffiths, Scott A ^a   Guo, Yanan ^g   Hamelin, Richard C ^j   Henrissat, Bernard ^l   Kabir, M Shahjahan ^g   Jashni, Mansoor Karimi ^a,m   Kema, Gert ^a   Klaubauf, Sylvia ⁱ   Lapidus, Alla ^e,n   Levasseur, Anthony ^l   Lindquist, Erika ^e   Mehrabi, Rahim ^a,o   Ohm, Robin A ^e   Owen, Timothy J ^g,p   Salamov, Asaf ^e   Schwelm, Arne ^g,q   Schijlen, Elio ^a   Sun, Hui ^e   van den Burg, Harrold A ^a,b,r   van Ham, Roeland C H J ^a,h   Zhang, Shuguang ^g,s   Goodwin, Stephen B ^t   Grigoriev, Igor V ^e   Collemare, Jérôme ^a,b   Bradshaw, Rosie E ^g   more..

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRE FOR BIOSYSTEMS GENOMICS   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Agricultural Research Center   (Egypt)

^e DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^g MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^h KEYGENE N V   (Netherlands)

ⁱ CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^k MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^l AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^m TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

ⁿ FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^o SEED AND PLANT IMPROVEMENT INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^p UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^q SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^r UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^s CALLAGHAN INNOVATION   (New Zealand)

^t PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOTHISTROMIN; MYCOTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AVR4 GENE; CLADOSPORIUM FULVUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOTHISTROMA SEPTOSPORUM; ECP2 GENE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; MESOPHYLL CELL; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CLADOSPORIUM; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENOME; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PHYLOGENY; PINUS; PLANT DISEASES;

CLADOSPORIUM FULVUM; FUNGI; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MYCOSPHAERELLA PINI; PASSALORA FULVA;

EID: 84870667343     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003088     Document Type: Article

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