Highly flexible infection programs in a specialized wheat pathogen

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 275-294

  Haueisen, Janine ^a,b   Möller, Mareike ^a,b   Eschenbrenner, Christoph J ^a,b   Grandaubert, Jonathan ^a,c   Seybold, Heike ^a,b   Adamiak, Holger ^b   Stukenbrock, Eva H ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

confocal microscopy; expression phenotypes; host specialization; infection phenotypes; plant fungus interactions; Zymoseptoria tritici

Indexed keywords

EID: 85060456467     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4724     Document Type: Article

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