[HTML][HTML] Genomic evidence for a hybrid origin of the yeast opportunistic pathogen Candida albicans

V Mixão, T Gabaldón - BMC biology, 2020 - Springer
… Our results raise once more the question of the importance of hybridization for the emergence
of yeast pathogens [1] and pose the intriguing question of whether C. albicans ability to …

[HTML][HTML] Gene flow contributes to diversification of the major fungal pathogen Candida albicans

J Ropars, C Maufrais, D Diogo… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
… Candida albicans is the second most frequent agent of human fungal infections worldwide,
… and invasive infections, constituting the largest dataset to date for this major fungal pathogen. …

Evolution and adaptation of forest and crop pathogens in the Anthropocene

P Hessenauer, N Feau, U Gill… - …, 2021 - Am Phytopath Society
… that allows breeding hybrids with broad adaptability, improved … that enable this increased
adaptive evolution in Z. tritici for … novo-ulmi facilitated adaptation of this invasive species by …

The adaptive evolution of the plant pathogen Albugo candida

A Jouet - 2016 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
… that hybridization played an important role in the evolution of A. … evolutionary and ecological
processes in the adaptation of plant pathogens, and to propose a method that could facilitate

Genetic Diversity and Genomic Plasticity of Cryptococcus neoformans AD Hybrid Strains

W Li, AF Averette, M Desnos-Ollivier… - G3: Genes …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
… interspecific hybridization of plant fungal pathogens leads to host expansion and adaptation
… In comparison, hybrids of human fungal pathogens are less characterized and understood. …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple Origins of the Pathogenic Yeast Candida orthopsilosis by Separate Hybridizations between Two Parental Species

MS Schröder, K Martinez de San Vicente… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
… of these hybrids may be yeasts that are pathogens of other … Formation of the hybrid may
have facilitated a change in host range … one another and these pathogenic hybrids can emerge. …

[HTML][HTML] … element-assisted evolution and adaptation to host plant within the Leptosphaeria maculans-Leptosphaeria biglobosa species complex of fungal pathogens

J Grandaubert, RGT Lowe, JL Soyer, CL Schoch… - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
… data from filamentous fungi did not indicate differences between genome size of fungal
pathogens and that of saprophytes. However, contrasting to what is observed in bacteria, recent …

Extensive chromosomal reshuffling drives evolution of virulence in an asexual pathogen

R de Jonge, MD Bolton, A Kombrink… - Genome …, 2013 - genome.cshlp.org
… that these genes are under adaptive evolution. This number is … Various mechanisms have
been described that facilitate … of diploid nuclei through hybridization that can later return to a …

The impact of recombination hotspots on genome evolution of a fungal plant pathogen

D Croll, MH Lendenmann, E Stewart, BA McDonald - Genetics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
… of adaptive evolution of recombination hotspots may lead to an enrichment in fast-evolving
gene … Protein secretion is an important component of virulence in plant pathogenic fungi. We …

[HTML][HTML] Signatures of host specialization and a recent transposable element burst in the dynamic one-speed genome of the fungal barley powdery mildew pathogen

L Frantzeskakis, B Kracher, S Kusch… - BMC genomics, 2018 - Springer
pathogen, B. graminis, led to the understanding that host specialization can occur by
hybridization between two … To further assess assembly quality and to facilitate future genome-…