An introduced crop plant is driving diversification of the virulent bacterial pathogen Erwinia tracheiphila
L. R. Shapiro, J. N. Paulson, B. J. Arnold, E. D. Scully, O. Zhaxybayeva, N. Pierce, J. Rocha, V. Klepac-Ceraj, K. Holton, R. Kolter
The paper sequenced E. tracheiphila genomes to show introduced cucumber plants drive its diversification into distinct lineages.
bioRxiv · Jun 12, 2018Evolutionary Biology