Tools for pathogen genetic surveillance: Lessons from the ash dieback invasion of Europe

JA Peers, RM Leggett, MD Clark, M McMullan - Plos Pathogens, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Human movement and climate change are exposing new environments to pathogens and
increasing the rate of invasions [1]. Presently, most pathogens are studied independently …

Starship giant transposable elements cluster by host taxonomy using kmer-based phylogenetics

R Hill, D Smith, G Canning, M Grey… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Starships are a recently established superfamily of giant cargo-mobilising transposable
elements in the fungal subphylum Pezizomyotina (phylum Ascomycota). To date, Starship …