Bart P. H. J. Thomma

The paper examines antimicrobial repertoires in lichen-forming fungi, finding conserved baseline capacity with lineage-specific variation and reduced antimicrobial systems in cyanolichens.

This study identifies antimicrobial activity as the conserved core function of fungal cerato-platanins, showing how these proteins evolved from ancient antimicrobials to manipulate host interactions.

The paper constructs a chromosome-scale super-pangenome for the lichen genus Peltigera, revealing shared genomic features between pathogenic and mutualistic fungi.

This paper identifies VdAve1, an antimicrobial effector from the fungal pathogen Verticillium dahliae, and shows it kills bacteria by binding lipoteichoic acid and disrupting plasma membranes.

The paper shows bacteria suppress fungal antimicrobial gene expression in soil microbiota, reducing fungal colonization and revealing community-level microbial competition.

The paper shows that the antimicrobial effector Ave1 from Verticillium dahliae affects tomato microbiota assembly and virulence across different soils.

The paper identifies Av2, an effector protein from Verticillium dahliae, which suppresses the plant's 'cry for help' by inhibiting antagonistic Pseudomonas bacteria recruitment.

This study identifies Starship transposons as abundant and virulence-associated elements in Verticillium dahliae, showing their role in horizontal gene transfer and virulence evolution.

The paper develops a gnotobiotic system to study plant-fungal pathogen interactions, showing that specific effector proteins influence virulence and microbiota manipulation.

The paper presents a high-quality genome assembly and annotation of Coccomyxa viridis SAG 216-4 using long-read sequencing and Hi-C, resulting in a complete nuclear, mitochondrial, and plastid genome.

The paper identifies antimicrobial effectors in plant-associated fungi, suggesting they evolved from ancient antimicrobials to manipulate host microbiota and immunity.

The paper analyzes TE polymorphisms in V. dahliae to show they contribute to genomic variation and gene expression, particularly in pathogenicity-related genes.

The paper identifies adaptive genomic regions in the fungus Verticillium dahliae by analyzing chromatin features, showing these regions have unique epigenetic marks and are associated with adaptive traits.

This study identifies and characterizes centromeres in ten Verticillium species, revealing conserved and variable features linked to repetitive elements and genome evolution.

The paper shows that V. dahliae strains infecting the same host have divergent effector repertoires, suggesting redundancy in effector function across lineages.

LoReAn improves genome annotation by integrating long-read cDNA sequencing with other data types, outperforming existing pipelines in gene structure prediction and discovery.

The paper shows that lineage-specific regions in V. dahliae are more conserved than core regions, suggesting host adaptation through presence/absence polymorphisms rather than sequence divergence.

This study examines the mosaic genome structure of the hybrid fungal plant pathogen Verticillium longisporum and its evolutionary implications.