ArticleMolecular ecology2017
Co-occurrence and hybridization of anther-smut pathogens specialized on Dianthus hosts.
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- Can disease resistance evolve independently at different ages? Genetic variation in age-dependent resistance to disease in three wild plant species.The Journal of ecology · 2022Article
- From generalist to specialists: Variation in the host range and performance of anther-smut pathogens on DianthusEvolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2021Article
- The evolving species concepts used for yeasts: from phenotypes and genomes to speciation networks.Fungal diversity · 2021Review
- Population studies of the wild tomato speciesProceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Meiotic recombination in the offspring of Microbotryum hybrids and its impact on pathogenicity.BMC evolutionary biology · 2020Article
- Mining new sources of natural history observations for disease interactions.American journal of botany · 2020Article
- Host specialisation and disparate evolution of Pyrenophora teres f. teres on barley and barley grass.BMC evolutionary biology · 2019Article
- Sympatry and interference of divergentEcology and evolution · 2019Article
- The role of infectious disease in the evolution of females: Evidence from anther-smut disease on a gynodioecious alpine carnation.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2019Article
- Co-occurrence among three divergent plant-castrating fungi in the same Silene host species.Molecular ecology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Host specialization has important consequences for the diversification and ecological interactions of obligate pathogens. The anther-smut disease of natural plant populations, caused by Microbotryum fungi, has been characterized by specialized host-pathogen interactions, which contribute in part to the isolation among these numerous fungal species. This study investigated the molecular variation of Microbotryum pathogens within the geographic and host-specific distributions on wild Dianthus species in southern European Alps. In contrast to prior studies on this pathogen genus, a range of overlapping host specificities was observed for four delineated Microbotryum lineages on Dianthus hosts, and their frequent co-occurrence within single-host populations was quantified at local and regional scales. In addition to potential consequences for direct pathogen competition, the sympatry of Microbotryum lineages led to hybridization between them in many populations, and these admixed genotypes suffered significant meiotic sterility. Therefore, this investigation of the anther-smut fungi reveals how variation in the degrees of host specificity can have major implications for ecological interactions and genetic integrity of differentiated pathogen lineages.
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