Genome-wide structural variants uncover strain-specific genes and evolutionary genomic determinants of a fungal maize pathogen
Sioly Becerra, Pablo García-Rodríguez, Juan José Aguilar Martín, Lucia Rodríguez-Mónaco, Silvia Gutiérrez-Sánchez, Francisco Borja Cuevas-Fernández, Flávia Rogério, Thaís Regina Boufleur, José Luis Vicente Villardón, Luigi Faino, Riccardo Baroncelli, Serenella Ana Sukno, Michael R. Thon
This study identifies strain-specific genes and evolutionary genomic features in the fungal maize pathogen Colletotrichum graminicola through structural variant analysis and machine learning.
bioRxiv · Oct 7, 2026 · PreprintGenomics