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PLoS Biology, 2022 Many organisms have sex chromosomes with large nonrecombining regions that have expanded stepwise, generating "evolutionary strata" of differentiation. The reasons for this remain poorly understood, but the principal hypotheses proposed to date are based
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The evolution of mini-chromosomes in the fungal genus Colletotrichum
mBio, 2023 Anthracnose diseases caused by Colletotrichum species are among the most common fungal diseases. These symptoms typically manifest as dark, sunken lesions on leaves, stems, and fruit. In China, mango anthracnose seriously affects fruit yield and quality.
Haoming Wang +11 more
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BMC Biology, 2022 Background The Fusarium solani species complex (FSSC) comprises fungal pathogens responsible for mortality in a diverse range of animals and plants, but their genome diversity and transcriptome responses in animal pathogenicity remain to be elucidated ...
Daphne Z. Hoh +12 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 Accessory chromosomes are strain- or pathotype-specific chromosomes that exist in addition to the core chromosomes of a species and are generally not considered essential to the survival of the organism.
Thomas E. Witte +5 more
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Convergent evolution of chromosomal sex-determining regions in the animal and fungal kingdoms. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2004 Sexual identity is governed by sex chromosomes in plants and animals, and by mating type (MAT) loci in fungi. Comparative analysis of the MAT locus from a species cluster of the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus revealed sequential evolutionary events ...
James A Fraser +6 more
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Breakage-fusion-bridge cycles and large insertions contribute to the rapid evolution of accessory chromosomes in a fungal pathogen. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2013 Chromosomal rearrangements are a major driver of eukaryotic genome evolution, affecting speciation, pathogenicity and cancer progression. Changes in chromosome structure are often initiated by mis-repair of double-strand breaks in the DNA.
Daniel Croll +2 more
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Complete Genome Sequences of Septoria linicola: A Resource for Studying a Damaging Flax Pathogen
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 2023 Fungal genus Septoria causes diseases in a wide range of plants. Here, we report the first genome sequences of two strains of Septoria linicola, the causal agent of the pasmo disease of flax (Linum usitatissimum). The genome of the first strain, SE15195,
Nicolas Lapalu +7 more
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The Many Questions about Mini Chromosomes in Colletotrichum spp.
Plants, 2020 Many fungal pathogens carry accessory regions in their genome, which are not required for vegetative fitness. Often, although not always, these regions occur as relatively small chromosomes in different species.
Peter-Louis Plaumann, Christian Koch
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Aneuploidy Underlies Tolerance and Cross-Tolerance to Drugs in Candida parapsilosis
Microbiology Spectrum, 2021 Candida species are the most common human fungal pathogens worldwide. Although C. albicans remains the predominant cause of candidiasis, infections caused by non-albicans Candida species, including C. parapsilosis, are increasing. In C.
Feng Yang +5 more
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mBio, 2017 The fungal wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici possesses a large complement of accessory chromosomes showing presence/absence polymorphism among isolates.
Michael Habig +2 more
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