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The linear mitochondrial genome of the quarantine chytrid Synchytrium endobioticum; insights into the evolution and recent history of an obligate biotrophic plant pathogen.
BMC evolutionary biology - 10 Sept 2018
van de Vossenberg Bart T L H, Brankovics Balázs, Nguyen Hai D T, van Gent-Pelzer Marga P E, Smith Donna, Dadej Kasia, Przetakiewicz Jarosław, Kreuze Jan F, Boerma Margriet, van Leeuwen Gerard C M, André Lévesque C, van der Lee Theo A J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Chytridiomycota species (chytrids) belong to a basal lineage in the fungal kingdom. Inhabiting terrestrial and aquatic environments, most are free-living saprophytes but several species cause important diseases: e.g. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, responsible for worldwide amphibian decline; and Synchytrium endobioticum, causing potato wart disease. S. endobioticum has an obligate biotrophic...
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