Drivers of genetic diversity in secondary metabolic gene clusters within a fungal species
Abigail Lind, Jennifer H. Wisecaver, Catarina Lameiras, Philipp Wiemann, Jonathan M. Palmer, Nancy P. Keller, Fernando José Santos Rodrigues, Gustavo Henrique Goldman, Antonis Rokas
This study identifies five types of genetic variation in secondary metabolic gene clusters across 66 strains of Aspergillus fumigatus and links them to evolutionary drivers like mutation, recombination, and horizontal gene transfer.
PLoS Biology · Nov 17, 2017Peer-reviewedGenomics