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Patterns of diversifying selection in the phytotoxin-like scr74 gene family of Phytophthora infestans.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Mar 2005
Liu Zhenyu, Bos Jorunn I B, Armstrong Miles, Whisson Stephen C, da Cunha Luis, Torto-Alalibo Trudy, Win Joe, Avrova Anna O, Wright Frank, Birch Paul R J, Kamoun Sophien
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Phytophthora infestans, the organism responsible for the Irish famine, causes late blight, a re-emerging disease of potato and tomato. Little is known about the molecular evolution of P. infestans genes. To identify candidate effector genes (virulence or avirulence genes) that may have co-evolved...
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