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Advances and Challenges in Computational Prediction of Effectors from Plant Pathogenic Fungi

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Emerging fungal threats to animal, plant and ecosystem health

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Fusion of two divergent fungal individuals led to the recent emergence of a unique widespread pathogen species

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Maintenance of Fungal Pathogen Species That Are Specialized to Different Hosts: Allopatric Divergence and Introgression through Secondary Contact

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Comparative genomics reveals mobile pathogenicity chromosomes in Fusarium

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Genome Evolution Following Host Jumps in the Irish Potato Famine Pathogen Lineage

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Rapid emergence of hybrids between the two subspecies ofOphiostoma novo-ulmiwith a high level of pathogenic fitness

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The Origins of Plant Pathogens in Agro-Ecosystems

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