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dc.contributor.authorKubicek, Christian P.
dc.contributor.authorHerrera-Estrella, Alfredo
dc.contributor.authorSeidl-Seiboth, Verena
dc.contributor.authorMartinez, Diego A.
dc.contributor.authorDruzhinina, Irina S.
dc.contributor.authorThon, Michael
dc.contributor.authorZeilinger, Susanne
dc.contributor.authorCasas-Flores, Sergio
dc.contributor.authorHorwitz, Benjamin A.
dc.contributor.authorMukherjee, Prasun Kumar
dc.contributor.authorMukherjee, Mala
dc.contributor.authorKredics, Laszlo
dc.contributor.authorAlcaraz, Luis D.
dc.contributor.authorAerts, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorAntal, Zsuzsanna
dc.contributor.authorAtanasova, Lea
dc.contributor.authorCervantes-Badillo, Mayte G.
dc.contributor.authorChallacombe, Jean
dc.contributor.authorChertkov, Olga
dc.contributor.authorMcCluskey, Kevin
dc.contributor.authorCoulpier, Fanny
dc.contributor.authorDeshpande, Nandan
dc.contributor.authorvon Dohren, Hans
dc.contributor.authorEbbole, Daniel J.
dc.contributor.authorEsquivel-Naranjo, Edgardo U.
dc.contributor.authorFekete, Erzsebet
dc.contributor.authorFlipphi, Michel
dc.contributor.authorGlaser, Fabian
dc.contributor.authorPacker, Nicolle H.
dc.contributor.authoret al.
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-16T12:32:37Z
dc.date.available2017-05-16T12:32:37Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.issn1474-7596
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/gb-2011-12-4-r40
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/336682
dc.description.abstractBackground: Mycoparasitism, a lifestyle where one fungus is parasitic on another fungus, has special relevance when the prey is a plant pathogen, providing a strategy for biological control of pests for plant protection. Probably, the most studied biocontrol agents are species of the genus Hypocrea/Trichoderma. Results: Here we report an analysis of the genome sequences of the two biocontrol species Trichoderma atroviride (teleomorph Hypocrea atroviridis) and Trichoderma virens (formerly Gliocladium virens, teleomorph Hypocrea virens), and a comparison with Trichoderma reesei (teleomorph Hypocrea jecorina). These three Trichoderma species display a remarkable conservation of gene order (78 to 96%), and a lack of active mobile elements probably due to repeat-induced point mutation. Several gene families are expanded in the two mycoparasitic species relative to T. reesei or other ascomycetes, and are overrepresented in non-syntenic genome regions. A phylogenetic analysis shows that T. reesei and T. virens are derived relative to T. atroviride. The mycoparasitism-specific genes thus arose in a common Trichoderma ancestor but were subsequently lost in T. reesei. Conclusions: The data offer a better understanding of mycoparasitism, and thus enforce the development of improved biocontrol strains for efficient and environmentally friendly protection of plants.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBioMed Central Ltd.
dc.relation.ispartofpagefromR40-1
dc.relation.ispartofpagetoR40- 15
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalGenome Biology
dc.relation.ispartofvolume12
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEnvironmental sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBiological sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEvolutionary biology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchInformation and computing sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode41
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode31
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode310499
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode46
dc.titleComparative genome sequence analysis underscores mycoparasitism as the ancestral life style of Trichoderma
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
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gro.description.notepublicPage numbers are not for citation purposes. Instead, this article has the unique article number of r40.
gro.rights.copyright© Kubicek et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2011.This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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