Natural genomic variation in rice blast genomes is associated with specific heterochromatinmodifications
D. Rowe, J. Huang, W. Zhang, D. Mishra, K. W. Jordan, B. Valent, S. Liu, D. Cook
The paper examines DNA sequence variation in rice blast fungi, finding that heterochromatin-associated histone marks correlate with SNP and INDEL frequency, even after accounting for selection.
bioRxiv · Aug 30, 2023 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology