Michael Freitag

The paper identifies shared accessory regions between two Fusarium species complexes that cause garden pea disease, suggesting a common origin and horizontal transfer of virulence genes.

The paper improves the functional annotation of the mushroom-forming fungus Coprinopsis cinerea by integrating a chromosome-level genome assembly with extensive expression profiling across multiple conditions.

This study shows that H4K20me3 is essential for transcriptional silencing in facultative heterochromatin by maintaining Ash1-mediated H3K36me3 and affecting other chromatin marks in the fungus Zymoseptoria tritici.

The paper shows that loss of Dim2 DNA methyltransferase in Zymoseptoria tritici reduces mutation rates in repeats and alters evolutionary trajectory by affecting 5mC levels and transposable element dynamics.

The paper compares genome architecture across Zymoseptoria species, finding high conservation of compartmentalization despite genomic variability.

The paper investigates the role of H3K9me3 and H3K27me3 in genome stability in Zymoseptoria tritici, showing H3K9me3 maintains stability by preventing H3K27me3, while H3K27me3 promotes instability of accessory chromosomes.

Fusarium oxysporum chromosomes fall into four classes by divergence and dispensability; H3K27me3-marked regions diverge faster, and tomato pathogenicity regions show footprints of horizontal transfer.

This study investigates chromosome instability in the fungus Zymoseptoria tritici, finding high rates of accessory chromosome loss and suggesting an adaptive role in virulence.