Plant BiologybioRxivPreprint
A genetically linked pair of NLR immune receptors show contrasting patterns of evolution
M. Shimizu, A. Hirabuchi, Y. Sugihara…·R. Terauchi
This paper studies the evolution of a rice NLR gene pair, showing that the sensor NLR undergoes dynamic domain integration under balancing selection, while the helper NLR remains functionally conserved under purifying selection.
DOI 10.1101/2021.09.01.458560