Comparative genomics of a plant-pathogenic fungus, pyrenophora tritici-repentis, reveals transduplication and the impact of repeat elements on pathogenicity and population divergence

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 41-63

  Manning, Viola A ^a   Pandelova, Iovanna ^a   Dhillon, Braham ^b   Wilhelm, Larry J ^a,c   Goodwin, Stephen B ^d   Berlin, Aaron M ^e   Figueroa, Melania ^a   Freitag, Michael ^a   Hane, James K ^f   Henrissat, Bernard ^g   Holman, Wade H ^a   Kodira, Chinnappa D ^e,g   Martin, Joel ^h   Oliver, Richard P ⁱ   Robbertse, Barbara ^j   Schackwitz, Wendy ^h   Schwartz, David C ^k   Spatafora, Joseph W ^a   Turgeon, B Gillian ^l   Yandava, Chandri ^e   Young, Sarah ^e   Zhou, Shiguo ^k   Zeng, Qiandong ^e   Igor V Grigoriev, ^l   Ma, Li Jun ^m   Ciuffetti, Lynda M ⁿ   more..

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^f CSIRO   (Australia)

^g AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^h Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing Oregon State University ^*

ⁱ DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^j CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^k NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^m Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; COCHLIOBOLUS HETEROSTROPHUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PHAEOSPHAERIA NODORUM; PHYLOGENY; PYRENOPHORA; PYRENOPHORA TRITICI REPENTIS; RETROPOSON; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSPOSON; ANASTOMOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENOME; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HISTONE H3 TRANSDUPLICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOXA; TOXB; WHEAT; WHEAT (TRITICUM AESTIVUM);

FUNGI; PYRENOPHORA; PYRENOPHORA TRITICI-REPENTIS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

MYCOTOXIN; PRIMER DNA;

ANASTOMOSIS; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; HISTONE H3 TRANSDUPLICATION; TOXA; TOXB; WHEAT (TRITICUM AESTIVUM);

ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOTOXINS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRITICUM;

EID: 84883177540     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.112.004044     Document Type: Article

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