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Maintenance of fungal pathogen species that are specialized to different hosts: allopatric divergence and introgression through secondary contact.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jan 2011
Gladieux Pierre, Vercken Elodie, Fontaine Michael C, Hood Michael E, Jonot Odile, Couloux Arnaud, Giraud Tatiana
Abstract excerpt
Sympatry of species that lack complete prezygotic isolation is ideal for the study of how species can be maintained in the face of potential gene flow. This is particularly important in the context of emerging diseases on new hosts because pathogen adaptation is facilitated by reduced gene flow from ancestral populations. Here, we investigated divergence and gene flow between two closely related fungal species,...
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