A genome scan of diversifying selection in Ophiocordyceps zombie-ant fungi suggests a role for enterotoxins in co-evolution and host specificity

Experimental infection of the ant Polyrhachis furcata with Ophiocordyceps reveals specificity of behavioural manipulation

(2018) Baramee Sakolrak et al.   Fungal Ecology

Gene Presence–Absence Polymorphism in Castrating Anther-Smut Fungi: Recent Gene Gains and Phylogeographic Structure

(2018) Fanny E Hartmann et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Zombie-ant fungi across continents: 15 new species and new combinations within Ophiocordyceps . I. Myrmecophilous hirsutelloid species

(2018) J.P.M. Araújo et al.   STUDIES IN MYCOLOGY

Editorial: Cell Signaling in Host–Pathogen Interactions: The Host Point of View

(2018) Diana Bahia et al.   Frontiers in Immunology

Iron acquisition in fungal pathogens of humans

(2017) Gaurav Bairwa et al.   Metallomics

Widespread selective sweeps throughout the genome of model plant pathogenic fungi and identification of effector candidates

(2017) H. Badouin et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Evolution and genome architecture in fungal plant pathogens

(2017) Mareike Möller et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Life, death and rebirth of avirulence effectors in a fungal pathogen of Brassica crops, Leptosphaeria maculans

(2017) Thierry Rouxel et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The caterpillar fungus, Ophiocordyceps sinensis, genome provides insights into highland adaptation of fungal pathogenicity

(2017) En-Hua Xia et al.   Scientific Reports

Evolution of substrate specificity in a retained enzyme driven by gene loss

(2017) Ana Lilia Juárez-Vázquez et al.   eLife

Using Population and Comparative Genomics to Understand the Genetic Basis of Effector-Driven Fungal Pathogen Evolution

(2017) Clémence Plissonneau et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Ant-infecting Ophiocordyceps genomes reveal a high diversity of potential behavioral manipulation genes and a possible major role for enterotoxins

(2017) Charissa de Bekker et al.   Scientific Reports

Divergent and Convergent Evolution of Fungal Pathogenicity

(2016) Yanfang Shang et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Comparative transcriptomics reveal host-specific nucleotide variation in entomophthoralean fungi

(2016) Henrik H. De Fine Licht et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Evolution by gene loss

(2016) Ricard Albalat et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Host–parasite coevolution—rapid reciprocal adaptation and its genetic basis

(2016) Joachim Kurtz et al.   ZOOLOGY

Systematic functional analysis of kinases in the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans

(2016) Kyung-Tae Lee et al.   Nature Communications

Ensembl comparative genomics resources

(2016) Javier Herrero et al.   Database-The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation

Biosynthesis of Antibiotic Leucinostatins in Bio-control Fungus Purpureocillium lilacinum and Their Inhibition on Phytophthora Revealed by Genome Mining

(2016) Gang Wang et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Perplexing Metabolomes in Fungal-Insect Trophic Interactions: A Terra Incognita of Mycobiocontrol Mechanisms

(2016) Digar Singh et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Kingdom-Wide Analysis of Fungal Small Secreted Proteins (SSPs) Reveals their Potential Role in Host Association

(2016) Ki-Tae Kim et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Insights from the genome of Ophiocordyceps polyrhachis-furcata to pathogenicity and host specificity in insect fungi

(2015) Duangdao Wichadakul et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Fungal chitinases: function, regulation, and potential roles in plant/pathogen interactions

(2015) Thorsten Langner et al.   CURRENT GENETICS

New species of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, an ubiquitous pathogen of ants from Thailand

(2015) Noppol Kobmoo et al.   Fungal Biology

Genome-wide identification of lineage-specific genes within Caenorhabditis elegans

(2015) Kun Zhou et al.   GENOMICS

Gene-Wide Identification of Episodic Selection

(2015) Ben Murrell et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Rapid identification of theLeptosphaeria maculansavirulence geneAvrLm2using an intraspecific comparative genomics approach

(2015) Kaveh Ghanbarnia et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

KEGG as a reference resource for gene and protein annotation

(2015) Minoru Kanehisa et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

antiSMASH 3.0—a comprehensive resource for the genome mining of biosynthetic gene clusters

(2015) Tilmann Weber et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Twenty years of theMEROPSdatabase of proteolytic enzymes, their substrates and inhibitors

(2015) Neil D. Rawlings et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The Pfam protein families database: towards a more sustainable future

(2015) Robert D. Finn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Rapidly Evolving Genes Are Key Players in Host Specialization and Virulence of the Fungal Wheat Pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici (Mycosphaerella graminicola)

(2015) Stephan Poppe et al.   PLoS Pathogens

InterProScan 5: genome-scale protein function classification

(2014) P. Jones et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Trajectory and genomic determinants of fungal-pathogen speciation and host adaptation

(2014) Xiao Hu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolutionary Interaction Networks of Insect Pathogenic Fungi

(2013) Jacobus J. Boomsma et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Informed and automated k-mer size selection for genome assembly

(2013) R. Chikhi et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

orthAgogue: an agile tool for the rapid prediction of orthology relations

(2013) O. K. Ekseth et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Advances in fundamental and applied studies in China of fungal biocontrol agents for use against arthropod pests

(2013) Chengshu Wang et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Ablation of thecreAregulator results in amino acid toxicity, temperature sensitivity, pleiotropic effects on cellular development and loss of virulence in the filamentous fungusBeauveria bassiana

(2013) Zhibing Luo et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Fungal evolutionary genomics provides insight into the mechanisms of adaptive divergence in eukaryotes

(2013) Pierre Gladieux et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The wheat powdery mildew genome shows the unique evolution of an obligate biotroph

(2013) Thomas Wicker et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Phylogenetic Study of Polyketide Synthases and Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetases Involved in the Biosynthesis of Mycotoxins

(2013) Antonia Gallo et al.   Toxins

Action on the Surface: Entomopathogenic Fungi versus the Insect Cuticle

(2013) Almudena Ortiz-Urquiza et al.   Insects

Challenges and progress towards understanding the role of effectors in plant–fungal interactions

(2012) Maryam Rafiqi et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Genes under positive selection in a model plant pathogenic fungus, Botrytis

(2012) Gabriela Aguileta et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

(2012) Anton Bankevich et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

Molecular phylogenies reveal host-specific divergence ofOphiocordyceps unilateralis sensu latofollowing its host ants

(2012) N. KOBMOO et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Emerging fungal threats to animal, plant and ecosystem health

(2012) Matthew C. Fisher et al.   NATURE

dbCAN: a web resource for automated carbohydrate-active enzyme annotation

(2012) Yanbin Yin et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Unifying concepts and mechanisms in the specificity of plant–enemy interactions

(2012) Luke G. Barrett et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Genomic perspectives on the evolution of fungal entomopathogenicity in Beauveria bassiana

(2012) Guohua Xiao et al.   Scientific Reports

Toward almost closed genomes with GapFiller

(2012) Marten Boetzer et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

A novel hybrid gene prediction method employing protein multiple sequence alignments

(2011) Oliver Keller et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The making of a new pathogen: Insights from comparative population genomics of the domesticated wheat pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola and its wild sister species

(2011) E. H. Stukenbrock et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

SignalP 4.0: discriminating signal peptides from transmembrane regions

(2011) Thomas Nordahl Petersen et al.   NATURE METHODS

Hidden Diversity Behind the Zombie-Ant Fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis: Four New Species Described from Carpenter Ants in Minas Gerais, Brazil

(2011) Harry C. Evans et al.   PLoS One

MACSE: Multiple Alignment of Coding SEquences Accounting for Frameshifts and Stop Codons

(2011) Vincent Ranwez et al.   PLoS One

Genome Sequencing and Comparative Transcriptomics of the Model Entomopathogenic Fungi Metarhizium anisopliae and M. acridum

(2011) Qiang Gao et al.   PLoS Genetics

Insertion of an Esterase Gene into a Specific Locust Pathogen (Metarhizium acridum) Enables It to Infect Caterpillars

(2011) Sibao Wang et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Genome sequence of the insect pathogenic fungus Cordyceps militaris, a valued traditional chinese medicine

(2011) Peng Zheng et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Behavioral mechanisms and morphological symptoms of zombie ants dying from fungal infection

(2011) David P Hughes et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Lipid signalling in pathogenic fungi

(2010) Arpita Singh et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Plants versus pathogens: an evolutionary arms race

(2010) Jonathan P. Anderson et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

SMURF: Genomic mapping of fungal secondary metabolite clusters

(2010) Nora Khaldi et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Insect-toxic secreted proteins and virulence of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana

(2010) A. Ortiz-Urquiza et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Finding candidate genes under positive selection in Non-model species: examples of genes involved in host specialization in pathogens

(2010) G. AGUILETA et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Metarhizium anisopliae enzymes and toxins

(2010) Augusto Schrank et al.   TOXICON

Comparative Genomics Using Microarrays Reveals Divergence and Loss of Virulence-Associated Genes in Host-Specific Strains of the Insect PathogenMetarhizium anisopliae

(2009) Sibao Wang et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Rapidly evolving genes in pathogens: Methods for detecting positive selection and examples among fungi, bacteria, viruses and protists

(2009) Gabriela Aguileta et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Graveyards on the Move: The Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Dead Ophiocordyceps-Infected Ants

(2009) Maj-Britt Pontoppidan et al.   PLoS One

Crusade for iron: iron uptake in unicellular eukaryotes and its significance for virulence

(2008) Robert Sutak et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY