Comparative analysis highlights variable genome content of wheat rusts and divergence of the mating loci.
Christina A Cuomo, Guus Bakkeren, Hala Badr Khalil, Vinay Panwar, David Joly, Rob Linning, Sharadha Sakthikumar, Xiao Song, Xian Adiconis, Lin Fan, Jonathan M Goldberg, Joshua Z Levin, Sarah Young, Qiandong Zeng, Yehoshua Anikster, , John P. Fellers
The paper compares the genomes of three wheat rust pathogens to identify gene content variation and divergence in mating loci, highlighting differences in genome size, heterozygosity, and effector expression.
bioRxiv · Jun 24, 2016Microbiology