Supporting the identification of unknown strains or specimens by sequencing a genetic
marker commonly used for phylogenetics or DNA barcoding is now standard practice for …

Background Fungi use the accessory segments of their pan-genomes to adapt to their
environments. While gene presence-absence variation (PAV) contributes to shaping these …

Background Duplication, followed by fixation or random loss of novel genes, contributes to
genome evolution. Particular outcomes of duplication events are possibly associated with …

The turn of the century not only ushered in a new millennium, but the age of microbial
genomics with the genome sequence of the first plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa, the …

Plant diseases caused by plant pathogenic fungi continuously threaten the sustainability of
global crop production. An effective way to study the disease-causing mechanisms of these …

Identifying the genes underlying adaptation, their distribution in genomes and the
evolutionary forces shaping genomic diversity are key challenges in evolutionary biology …

The anther smut fungus, Microbotryum violaceum, infects over 200 species of
Caryophyllaceae (Pinks). However, limited published studies, as well as anecdotal …

We present a novel method to measure the local GC-content bias in genomes and a survey
of published fungal species. The method, enacted as “OcculterCut”(https://sourceforge …

Fungi and the oomycetes include several groups of plant pathogenic microbes. Although
these two eukaryotic groups are unrelated they have a number of phenotypic similarities …

Fungi represent an extremely diverse and complex class of organisms, and their
categorization as' lower eukaryotes' should by no means be mistaken as meaning low-end …