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ReviewCurrent opinion in plant biology2014

Genomic variability as a driver of plant-pathogen coevolution?

Talia L Karasov, Matthew W Horton, Joy Bergelson

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Review in Current opinion in plant biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

50 citing papers in PubMed.

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  20. Evolution of multiple postzygotic barriers between species of the Mimulus tilingii complex.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Talia L KarasovUniversity of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; Committee on Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology.
Matthew W HortonGregor Mendel Institute, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria.
Joy BergelsonUniversity of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; Department of Ecology & Evolution. Electronic address: jbergels@uchicago.edu.

Funding

PREDOCTORAL TRAINING IN GENETICS AND REGULATIONT32GM007197 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI ROTHMAN-DENES, LUCIA B. B · 1985 to 2020
$17.0M
EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS OF GENE-FOR-GENE SYSTEMSR01GM062504 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI BERGELSON, JOY M · 2001 to 2004
$1.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM062504NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007197
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pathogens apply one of the strongest selective pressures in plant populations. Understanding plant-pathogen coevolution has therefore been a major research focus for at least sixty years [1]. Recent comparative genomic studies have revealed that the genes involved in plant defense and pathogen virulence are among the most polymorphic in the respective genomes. Which fraction of this diversity influences the host-pathogen interaction? Do coevolutionary dynamics maintain variation? Here we review recent literature on the evolutionary and molecular processes that shape this variation, focusing primarily on gene-for-gene interactions. In summarizing theoretical and empirical studies of the processes that shape this variation in natural plant and pathogen populations, we find a disconnect between the complexity of ecological interactions involving hosts and their myriad microbes, and the models that describe them.

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Biological EvolutionGenetic VariationGenome, PlantHost-Pathogen InteractionsPlantsSelection, Genetic

Identifiers

PMID24491596
PMCPMC4696489

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