Dynamic virulence-related regions of the fungal plant pathogen Verticillium dahliae display remarkably enhanced sequence conservation
Jasper R.L. Depotter, Xiaoqian Shi-Kunne, Hélène Missonnier, Tingli Liu, Luigi Faino, Grardy C.M. van den Berg, Thomas A. Wood, Baolong Zhang, Alban Jacques, Michael F. Seidl, Bart P.H.J. Thomma
The paper shows that lineage-specific regions in V. dahliae are more conserved than core regions, suggesting host adaptation through presence/absence polymorphisms rather than sequence divergence.
bioRxiv · Mar 7, 2018 · PreprintMicrobiology