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Brasier C, Franceschini S, Forster J, Kirk S. Enhanced Outcrossing, Directional Selection and Transgressive Segregation Drive Evolution of Novel Phenotypes in Hybrid Swarms of the Dutch Elm Disease Pathogen Ophiostoma novo-ulmi. J Fungi (Basel) 2021; 7:jof7060452. [PMID: 34204036 PMCID: PMC8228177 DOI: 10.3390/jof7060452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2021] [Revised: 06/02/2021] [Accepted: 06/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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In the 1970s, clones of the two subspecies of Ophiostoma novo-ulmi, subsp. americana (SSAM) and subsp. novo-ulmi (SSNU) began to overlap in Europe, resulting in hybrid swarms. By 1983-1986, hybrids with high, SSAM-like growth and pathogenic fitness comprised ~75% of popula-tions at Limburg, Netherlands and Orvieto, Italy. We resampled these populations in 2008 to examine trends in hybrid fitness traits. Since preliminary sampling in 1979-1980, MAT-1 locus frequency had increased from ~0% to ~32% at Orvieto and 5% to ~43% at Limburg, and vegeta-tive incompatibility type frequency had changed from near clonal to extremely diverse at both sites. This represents an enormous increase in outcrossing and recombination potential, due in part to selective acquisition (under virus pressure) of MAT-1 and vic loci from the resident O. ulmi and in part to SSAM × SSNU hybridisation. Overt virus infection in the 2008 samples was low (~4%), diagnostic SSAM and SSNU cu and col1 loci were recombinant, and no isolates exhib-ited a parental SSAM or SSNU colony pattern. At both sites, mean growth rate and mean patho-genicity to 3-5 m clonal elm were high SSAM-like, indicating sustained directional selection for these characters, though at Orvieto growth rate was slower. The once frequent SSNU-specific up-mut colony dimorphism was largely eliminated at both sites. Perithecia formed by Limburg isolates were mainly an extreme, long-necked SSNU-like form, consistent with transgressive segregation resulting from mismatch of SSAM and SSNU developmental loci. Orvieto isolates produced more parental-like perithecia, suggesting the extreme phenotypes may have been se-lected against. The novel phenotypes in the swarms are remodelling O. novo-ulmi in Europe. Locally adapted genotypes may emerge.
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Hybridization and introgression drive genome evolution of Dutch elm disease pathogens. Nat Ecol Evol 2020; 4:626-638. [PMID: 32123324 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-1133-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2019] [Accepted: 01/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Hybridization and the resulting introgression can drive the success of invasive species via the rapid acquisition of adaptive traits. The Dutch elm disease pandemics in the past 100 years were caused by three fungal lineages with permeable reproductive barriers: Ophiostoma ulmi, Ophiostoma novo-ulmi subspecies novo-ulmi and Ophiostoma novo-ulmi subspecies americana. Using whole-genome sequences and growth phenotyping of a worldwide collection of isolates, we show that introgression has been the main driver of genomic diversity and that it impacted fitness-related traits. Introgressions contain genes involved in host-pathogen interactions and reproduction. Introgressed isolates have enhanced growth rate at high temperature and produce different necrosis sizes on an in vivo model for pathogenicity. In addition, lineages diverge in many pathogenicity-associated genes and exhibit differential mycelial growth in the presence of a proxy of a host defence compound, implying an important role of host trees in the molecular and functional differentiation of these pathogens.
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Gorton C, Webber JF. Reevaluation of the status of the bluestain fungus and bark beetle associate Ophiostoma minus. Mycologia 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2000.12061254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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- Caroline Gorton
- Forestry Commission Research Agency, Alice Holt Lodge, Farnham, Surrey GU10 4LH, UK
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- Forestry Commission Research Agency, Alice Holt Lodge, Farnham, Surrey GU10 4LH, UK
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- C. M. Brasier
- Forestry Authority Research Station, Alice Holt Lodge, Farnham, Surrey, GUIO 4LH, United Kingdom
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Abboud TG, Zubaer A, Wai A, Hausner G. The complete mitochondrial genome of the Dutch elm disease fungus Ophiostoma novo-ulmi subsp. novo-ulmi. Can J Microbiol 2018; 64:339-348. [DOI: 10.1139/cjm-2017-0605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Ophiostoma novo-ulmi, a member of the Ophiostomatales (Ascomycota), is the causal agent of the current Dutch elm disease pandemic in Europe and North America. The complete mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) of Ophiostoma novo-ulmi subsp. novo-ulmi, the European component of O. novo-ulmi, has been sequenced and annotated. Gene order (synteny) among the currently available members of the Ophiostomatales was examined and appears to be conserved, and mtDNA size variability among the Ophiostomatales is due in part to the presence of introns and their encoded open reading frames. Phylogenetic analysis of concatenated mitochondrial protein-coding genes yielded phylogenetic estimates for various members of the Ophiostomatales, with strong statistical support showing that mtDNA analysis may provide valuable insights into the evolution of the Ophiostomatales.
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- Talal George Abboud
- Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
- Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
- Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
- Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
- Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
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Temple B, Pines PA, Hintz WE. A nine-year genetic survey of the causal agent of Dutch elm disease, Ophiostoma novo-ulmi in Winnipeg, Canada. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 110:594-600. [PMID: 16617009 DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2006.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2004] [Revised: 12/10/2005] [Accepted: 01/01/2006] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The causal agent of Dutch elm disease, Ophiostoma ulmi s. lat., has been spreading across North America since the 1920s. The population of the pathogen in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada was surveyed in 1993 and 2002 using a combination of RAPD marker analysis, vegetative compatibility tests, and surveys for viral double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). The data presented here show that the population, based on the vegetative compatibility and RAPD analysis, was highly genetically uniform, and has remained so for the nine-year duration of the study. The pathogen population was also monitored for the presence and spread of dsRNA molecules that, depending on identity, can be associated with a diseased phenotype and reduction of virulence in the pathogen. The current study found a very low incidence of dsRNA, and did not find any evidence for spread of these molecules through the population, even though there appeared to be no barriers to the transfer of the dsRNA between Winnipeg isolates. Despite the observation that isolates infected with the Winnipeg dsRNA showed no obvious phenotypic differences, the low incidence of dsRNA in general suggests that infected isolates do not compete as successfully as the uninfected isolates. The highly clonal nature of the pathogen population may be exploited in a control strategy.
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- Brad Temple
- Biology Department, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3020 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, V8W 3N5, Canada
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Gibb EA, Hausner G. Optional mitochondrial introns and evidence for a homing-endonuclease gene in the mtDNA rnl gene in Ophiostoma ulmi s. lat. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 109:1112-26. [PMID: 16279406 DOI: 10.1017/s095375620500376x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Strains of Ophiostoma ulmi, O. novo-ulmi subsp. americana, O. novo-ulmi subsp. novo-ulmi and O. himal-ulmi were examined for optional introns/insertions within the following mitochondrial genes: small subunit RNA gene (rns), large ribosomal subunit gene (rnl) and the cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene (coxI). Insertions were noted in the rns and coxI genes in strains of O. ulmi, the less aggressive species, but absent in strains of the more aggressive O. novo-ulmi subsp. americana. Strains of all species examined had a group I intron present in the U11 region of the mitochondrial-rnl gene. In all but two strains of O. novo-ulmi subsp. americana, this rnl-U11 intron was about 1.5 kb in length whereas a 2.6 kb version of this element was present in all strains representing O. ulmi, O. novo-ulmi subsp. novo-ulmi, and Ophiostoma himal-ulmi. Irrespective of size, this intron based on RNA folds is a class IA1 group I intron and it encodes a putative ORF for the rps3 ribosomal protein. The size variation of the rnl-U11 intron was examined in detail for two strains of O. novo-ulmi subsp. americana and sequence data suggests the presence of a complex ORF within the 2.6 kb version of this intron; here a homing endonuclease-like gene has been inserted in frame and fused to the carboxyl-terminus of the putative rps3 coding region. The mitochondrial optional introns/insertions in combination with nuclear markers might be useful in distinguishing among the various species and subspecies of the O. ulmi s. lat. complex.
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- Ewan A Gibb
- Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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Gorton C, Kim SH, Henricot B, Webber J, Breuil C. Phylogenetic analysis of the bluestain fungus Ophiostoma minus based on partial ITS rDNA and beta-tubulin gene sequences. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 108:759-65. [PMID: 15446708 DOI: 10.1017/s0953756204000012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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In an attempt to clarify the relationship between fungi classified as Ophiostoma minus, but of different geographic origins and mating systems, sequencing of the 5.8S and ITS 2 rDNA, and beta-tubulin gene was carried out. The beta-tubulin gene was highly informative, supporting the sub-division of O. minus into two groups based on geographic origin. Furthermore, isolates previously classified as O. pseudotsugae were confirmed as being clearly distinct from O. minus. However, sequencing did not reveal any polymorphisms between isolates with homothallic as compared to heterothallic mating systems. This was supported by crosses using methylbenzamidazole-2-yl carbamate nuclear markers which showed that hybridisation between isolates of different mating systems was possible. However, we propose that different mating systems may still signal a divergence of isolates of O. minus.
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- Caroline Gorton
- Plant Pathology Department, The Royal Horticultural Society, Wisley, Woking, Surrey GU23 6QB, UK
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Rare interspecific hybrids in natural populations of the Dutch elm disease pathogens Ophiostoma ulmi and O. novo-ulmi. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1998. [DOI: 10.1017/s0953756297004541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Comparative determination of cerato-ulmin on cell surface and in mycelial extracts of pathogenic and non-pathogenic Ophiostoma species. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1997. [DOI: 10.1017/s0953756296003358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Comparison of the cerato-ulmin (cu) gene sequences of the Himalayan Dutch elm disease fungus Ophiostoma himal-ulmi with those of O. ulmi and O. novo-ulmi suggests that the cu gene of O. novo-ulmi is unlikely to have been acquired recently from O. himal-ulmi. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1997. [DOI: 10.1017/s0953756296002754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Binz T, Canevascini G. Differential production of extracellular laccase in the Dutch elm disease pathogens Ophiostoma ulmi and O. novo-ulmi. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/s0953-7562(96)80213-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Guillamón JM, Cano J, Ramón D, Guarro J. Molecular differentiation of Keratinomyces (Trichophyton) species. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1996; 69:223-7. [PMID: 8740904 DOI: 10.1007/bf00399610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The taxonomy of the form-genus Keratinomyces (Trichophyton) within the group of the dermatophytes is based on morphological features which remain insufficient for the distinction of these anamorphic species. The three species included in the genus Keratinomyces, namely K. ajelloi, K. ceretanicus and K. longifusus were examined by means of their mitochondrial-like DNA diversity and compared to few other dermatophytes. The analysis of the mtDNA restriction fragments confirmed that the three species are different and well separate from the other dermatophytes.
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- J M Guillamón
- Unidad de Microbiología, Escuela de Enología, Universidad Rovira i Virgili, Ramón y Cajal, Tarragona, Spain
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WALLNER WE. Invasive pests (‘biological pollutants’) and US forests: whose problem, who pays? ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2338.1996.tb01544.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Charter N, Buck K, Brasier C. Multiple insertions and deletions determine the size differences between the mitochondrial DNAs of the EAN and NAN races of Ophiostoma novo-ulmi. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/s0953-7562(96)80171-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Jeng R, Hintz WE, Bowden CG, Horgen PA, Hubbes M. A comparison of the nucleotide sequence of the cerato-ulmin gene and the rDNA ITS between aggressive and non-aggressive isolates of Ophiostoma ulmi sensu lato, the causal agent of Dutch elm disease. Curr Genet 1996; 29:168-73. [PMID: 8821664 DOI: 10.1007/bf02221581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Little genetic information exists comparing aggressive and non-aggressive isolates of the causal agent of Dutch elm disease, Ophiostoma ulmi. Two genetic elements were compared between the subgroups. The ceratoulmin cu gene product has been associated with disease symptoms. Nucleotide-sequence analysis of cu and the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of the rDNA were made from three aggressive and three non-aggressive isolates of the pathogen. Our results suggested uniformity within, and unique differences between, subgroups. Differences were detected for cu in the promoter, coding, and transcription termination regions. Sequence data for the ITS clearly distinguish the subgroups.
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- R Jeng
- Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Cano J, Guillamón JM, Vidal P, Guarro J. The utility of mitochondrial DNA restriction analysis in the classification of strains of Chrysosporium (hyphomycetes). Mycopathologia 1996; 134:65-9. [PMID: 9011826 DOI: 10.1007/bf00436866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The taxonomy of the fungal genus Chrysosporium is mainly based on morphological features. In our current studies we have found several Chrysosporium species which showed intermediate morphological characteristics between several species. For this reason, we have carried out an analysis of the mitochondrial DNA restriction fragments of these strains that have permit us to classify each isolate strain in a species.
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- J Cano
- Unidad de Microbiologia, Escuela de Enologia, Universidad Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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Brasier CM. Episodic selection as a force in fungal microevolution, with special reference to clonal speciation and hybrid introgression. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1139/b95-381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Episodic selection encompasses any sudden environmental disturbance likely to lead to a significant alteration in a species' population structure. Such disturbances include geographical transposition, a change in substrate availability, exposure to a new host or a new vector, climate change, and pollution stress. Today, such events may often be brought about by man. Their role in the promotion of fungal microevolution is discussed. In some circumstances, episodic selection may result in the emergence of a highly fitted clone from an originally heterogeneous population, and sustained disturbance may lead to clonal speciation. Clonal speciation accompanied by loss of sexual function, whether under episodic selection or under less intensive but analagous environmental conditions, could account for the origin of many of today's imperfect taxa (Deuteromycotina). Geographical transposition, a special form of episodic selection, can lead to hybridization between previously allopatric species. This may result in modifications to existing species via the acquisition of new loci or cytoplasmic elements, in the production of new taxa via secondary speciation, or in the emergence of hybrid swarms. Episodic selection will also favour survival of novel genotypes by providing new habitats for exploitation, so encouraging novel evolutionary development. Key words: episodic selection, fungal speciation, hybridization, introgression.
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Kohn LM. The clonal dynamic in wild and agricultural plant–pathogen populations. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1139/b95-383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The stability or change in clone frequencies during the disease cycle and from year to year is what I term the clonal dynamic. Among pathogenic fungi, the prevalence of efficient asexual reproduction affords the opportunity for invasive, epidemic, clonal colonization and spread. Clonality is probably most extreme in monoculture, although it could be expected to be important in wild plants and in transfers of adaptive pathogenic genotypes between wild and cultivated plants. The clonal dynamic was studied in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in two experiments, one on four Canadian field populations of cultivated canola and the other on two Norwegian populations of a wild perennial plant, Ranunculus ficaria. Additional samples were made from canola and other crops in Canada and Norway. Four major differences between the agricultural and wild populations were observed. First, in agricultural populations, DNA fingerprint (multilocus haplotype) and mycelial compatibility group were coupled; all individual members of a clone shared a unique fingerprint and all were mycelially compatible. In wild populations, DNA fingerprint and mycelial compatibility group were decoupled. Second, in agricultural populations fingerprint diversity was high, with 594 genotypes recovered from 2747 isolates, but frequently sampled clones were recovered from a wide geographical area repeatedly over a 3-year period; in wild populations fingerprint diversity was low, with 7 genotypes from 300 isolates, and highly localized. Third, in agricultural populations, no evidence of outcrossing and segregation was observed; in the wild populations, some sibling ascospores showed different mycelial compatibility reactions, indicating that crossing had occurred. Last, in agricultural populations, clones were randomly dispersed spatially, probably the result of immigration and mixing of inoculum in air; in the apparently isolated wild populations, strong spatial substructuring was indicated by the distribution of fingerprints, apparently the result of highly localized inbreeding. Clonality was therefore clearly detected in the cultivated plant populations but was difficult to distinguish from inbreeding in the wild populations. Key words: multilocus haplotype, clonality, asexual reproduction, population genetics.
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Sutherland ML, Brasier C. Effect of d-factors on in vitro cerato-ulmin production by the Dutch elm disease pathogen Ophiostoma novo-ulmi. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/s0953-7562(09)80281-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Pipe N, Buck K, Brasier C. Molecular relationships between Ophiostoma ulmi and the NAN and EAN races of O. novo-ulmi determined by RAPD markers. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/s0953-7562(09)80522-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Dewar K, Bernier L. Inheritance of chromosome-length polymorphisms in Ophiostoma ulmi (sensu lato). Curr Genet 1995; 27:541-9. [PMID: 7553939 DOI: 10.1007/bf00314445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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We have investigated the mitotic and meiotic transmission of chromosome-length polymorphisms in Ophiostoma ulmi s.l., the causal agent of Dutch elm disease. The North-American aggressive (NAN) strain CESS16K has an atypical electrophoretic karyotype, carrying two chromosome-sized DNAs (chDNAs) that have not been observed in other members of the NAN biotype. Independent CESS16K chDNA preparations, even after repeated inoculation and recovery from the elm host, and analysis of 16 progeny strains after a cross between the NAN strains FG245Br-O and CESS16K, demonstrated that these unique chDNAs are integral components of the CESS16K genome. Analysis of the progeny, by electrophoretic karyotyping and hybridizations with probes specific to individual chDNAs, presented evidence that genome rearrangements can occur as a consequence of meiosis. Even though novel electrophoretic karyotypes and a novel-sized chromosome were observed in the karyotypes of the progeny strains, the low level of reassortment between the chromosomes carrying length polymorphisms presented evidence that there are constraints to genome plasticity for this fungus.
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- K Dewar
- Centre de recherche en biologie forestière, Faculté de foresterie et de géomatique, Université Laval, Ste-Foy, Québec, Canada
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Kurdyla TM, Guthrie PA, McDonald BA, Appel DN. RFLPs in mitochondrial and nuclear DNA indicate low levels of genetic diversity in the oak wilt pathogen Ceratocystis fagacearum. Curr Genet 1995; 27:373-8. [PMID: 7614561 DOI: 10.1007/bf00352107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Genetic diversity in the oak wilt pathogen Ceratocystis fagacearum was assessed using restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and anonymous RFLP loci in the nuclear DNA (nuDNA). No genetic variation was detected in the mtDNA among 27 isolates sampled from a broad geographical area. Southern hybridization to 100 anonymous, random, nuDNA probes detected a low level of variation among nine of the isolates. Only 35 out of 437 probe-enzyme combinations detected RFLPs. Most of the RFLPs appeared to result from insertions and deletions of less than 200 bp. A composite multilocus haplotype based on hybridization to six anonymous probes could differentiate each of the nine isolates tested, suggesting that these probes may be useful for further studies of the population biology and epidemiology of this pathogen. Hypotheses are presented to account for the low level of genetic variation.
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- T M Kurdyla
- Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A & M University, College Station 77843-2132, USA
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JAROSZ ANDREWM, DAVELOS ANITAL. Effects of disease in wild plant populations and the evolution of pathogen aggressiveness. NEW PHYTOLOGIST 1995. [PMID: 0 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1995.tb04308.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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- ANDREW M. JAROSZ
- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824‐1312, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824‐1312, USA
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Brasier C, Mehrotra M. Ophiostoma himal-ulmi sp. nov., a new species of Dutch elm disease fungus endemic to the Himalayas. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/s0953-7562(09)80887-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Bernier L, Hubbes M. Induction and genetic characterization of ultraviolet-sensitive mutants in the elm tree pathogen Ophiostoma ulmi (sensu lato). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0953-7562(09)80268-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Tegli S, Comparini C, Giannetti C, Scala A. Effect of temperature on growth and cerato-ulmin production of Ophiostoma novo-ulmi and O. ulmi. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0953-7562(09)81197-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Bates M, Buck K, Brasier C. Molecular relationships of the mitochondrial DNA of Ophiostoma ulmi and the NAN and EAN races of O. novo-ulmi determined by restriction fragment length polymorphisms. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0953-7562(09)80510-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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