Convergent Evolution: Gene Sharing by Eukaryotic Plant Pathogens Page 1 7. Fogassi, L.,
Ferrari, PF, Gesierich, B., Rozzi, S., Chersi, F., and Rizzolatti, G. (2005). Parietal lobe: From …

Filamentous fungi and oomycetes are eukaryotic microorganisms that grow by producing
networks of thread-like hyphae, which secrete enzymes to break down complex nutrients …

We are on the verge of a flood of new genome data from a plethora of plant pathogens.
Although the data are just beginning to be analysed systematically and to be published …

Approximately 100,000 species of fungi have been described so far, of which, a high
percentage obtain nutrients by living in close association with other organisms (mainly …

Although the oomycetes and fungi are evolutionarily very distantly related, both taxa evolved
biotrophy on plant hosts several times independently, giving rise to rust-and mildew-like …

Fungi possess robust cell walls and do not engulf prey cells by phagotrophy. As a
consequence they are thought to be relatively immune from the invasion of foreign genes …

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 …

The spread of photosynthesis is one of the most important but constantly debated topics in
eukaryotic evolution. Various hypotheses have been proposed to explain the plastid …

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 …

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 …