GenomicsbioRxivPreprint
Four-species Aspergillus pan-GWAS reveals rare genome expansion in pathogenicity and contraction in domestication
Minji Kim, Omid Ardalani, Eduard Johannes Kerkhoven, Patrick V. Phaneuf
This study performs pan-GWAS across four Aspergillus species to show that pathogenicity involves rare genome expansion while industrial strains show rare genome contraction.
DOI 10.64898/2026.08.20.745736