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Horizontal gene transfer and gene dosage drives adaptation to wood colonization in a tree pathogen.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

March 2015

Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4; Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, Québec, QC, Canada G1V 4C7;

Some of the most damaging tree pathogens can attack woody stems, causing lesions (cankers) that may be lethal. To identify the genomic determinants of wood colonization leading to canker formation, we sequenced the genomes of the poplar canker pathogen, Mycosphaerella populorum, and the closely related poplar leaf pathogen, M. populicola.

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Until recently, Cryptococcus gattii infections occurred mainly in tropical and subtropical climate zones. However, during the past decade, C. gattii infections in humans and animals in Europe have increased.

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