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Allelic variation in the effector genes of the tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum reveals different modes of adaptive evolution.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Oct 2007
Stergiopoulos Ioannis, De Kock Maarten J D, Lindhout Pim, De Wit Pierre J G M
Abstract excerpt
The allelic variation in four avirulence (Avr) and four extracellular protein (Ecp)-encoding genes of the tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum was analyzed for a worldwide collection of strains. The majority of polymorphisms observed in the Avr genes are deletions, point mutations, or insertions of transposon-like elements that are associated with transitions from avirulence to virulence, indicating adaptive...
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