Undermining the cry for help: the phytopathogenic fungus Verticillium dahliae secretes an antimicrobial effector protein to undermine host recruitment of antagonistic Pseudomonas bacteria

During pathogen attack, plants recruit beneficial microbes in a ‘cry for help’ to mitigate disease development. Simultaneously, pathogens secrete effectors to promote host colonisation through vario...

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Hyperdiverse, bioactive, and interaction-specific metabolites produced only in co-culture suggest diverse competitors may fuel secondary metabolism of xylarialean fungi | mSystems

Saprotrophic and endophytic xylarialean fungi are among the most prolific producers of bioactive secondary metabolites, with numerous industrial uses as antibiotics, pharmaceuticals, and insecticidal ...

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Genomic and metagenomic survey of microbial carbonic anhydrase genes reveals novel clades, high diversity, and biome-specificity

Carbonic anhydrase (CA) enzymes catalyze the interconversion of carbon dioxide and bicarbonate with an efficiency exceeded only by superoxide dismutase. CA enzymes have convergently evolved multiple t...

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A phylogenetic approach to comparative genomics

Nature Reviews Genetics - Controlling for phylogeny is essential in comparative genomics studies, because species, genomes and genes are not independent data points within statistical tests. The...

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Hyperdiverse, bioactive, and interaction-specific metabolites produced only in co-culture suggest diverse competitors may fuel secondary metabolism of xylarialean fungi

Xylariales is one of the largest and most ecologically diverse fungal orders. Xylarialean fungi are well-known for their chemical diversity, reflecting a hyperdiversity of biosynthetic gene clusters (...

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