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Recombination between clonal lineages of the asexual fungus Verticillium dahliae detected by genotyping by sequencing.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Milgroom Michael G, Jiménez-Gasco María del Mar, Olivares García Concepción, Drott Milton T, Jiménez-Díaz Rafael M
Abstract excerpt
Most asexual species of fungi have either lost sexuality recently, or they experience recombination by cryptic sexual reproduction. Verticillium dahliae is a plant-pathogenic, ascomycete fungus with no known sexual stage, even though related genera have well-described sexual reproduction. V. dahliae reproduces mitotically and its population structure is highly clonal. However, previously described discrepancies...
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