Tim Hewitt

This study analyzes population dynamics and virulence-associated loci in the oat crown rust fungus using genomic and phenotypic data from isolates in the USA and South Africa.

The paper shows that somatic nuclear exchange in Puccinia triticina generates genetic diversity, leading to new strains through repeated shuffling of haploid nuclei between clonal lineages.

The paper identifies and corrects phase switches in Hi-C data for dikaryotic fungus assemblies using Nanopore and HiFi sequencing, showing HiFi's superiority in phasing low heterozygosity genomes.