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Comparing Fungal Genomes: Insight into Functional and Evolutionary Processes

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Plant Fungal Pathogens

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 835))

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Large amount of genome data are being generated by second- and now also third-generation sequencing technologies. The challenge no longer lies in the generation of the data, but in the analyses of it. We present an overview of approaches and methods to compare complete sequences of related fungal genomes. We focus on evolutionary analyses of genome alignments to describe species divergence and to identify footprints of demography and natural selection within and between species.

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  1. Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Karl von Frisch Str, Marburg, Germany

    Eva H. Stukenbrock

  2. Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution, Université de Montpellier II, Montpellier, France

    Julien Y. Dutheil

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  1. Northern Crops Science Laboratory, USDA-ARS, North 18th Street 1307, Fargo, 58105-5677, North Dakota, USA

    Melvin D. Bolton

  2. Lab. Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, Wageningen, 6708 PB, Netherlands

    Bart P.H.J. Thomma

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Stukenbrock, E.H., Dutheil, J.Y. (2012). Comparing Fungal Genomes: Insight into Functional and Evolutionary Processes. In: Bolton, M., Thomma, B. (eds) Plant Fungal Pathogens. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 835. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-501-5_33

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