Differences in population structure and zygosity between heteroecious and autoecious forms of Cronartium pini suggest selfing in the autoecious form.

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Cronartium pini causes Scots pine blister rust. This rust fungus has two different forms without differentiation in morphology and internal transcribed spacer: the heteroecious form has a macrocyclic life cycle and infects pine and an alternate host; the autoecious form only infects pine. Epidemics caused by these two forms impose severe risk on the pine forest in Sweden, therefore knowledge of their distribution...

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