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B. Gillian Turgeon

Researcher at Cornell University

Publications -  89
Citations -  9132

B. Gillian Turgeon is an academic researcher from Cornell University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cochliobolus heterostrophus & Virulence. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 86 publications receiving 8226 citations. Previous affiliations of B. Gillian Turgeon include Syngenta & Ithaca College.

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Comparative genomics reveals mobile pathogenicity chromosomes in Fusarium

Li-Jun Ma, +65 more
- 18 Mar 2010 - 
TL;DR: Comparison of genomes of three phenotypically diverse Fusarium species revealed lineage-specific genomic regions in F. oxysporum that include four entire chromosomes and account for more than one-quarter of the genome, putting the evolution of fungal pathogenicity into a new perspective.
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The Fusarium graminearum Genome Reveals a Link Between Localized Polymorphism and Pathogen Specialization

TL;DR: The genome of the filamentous fungus Fusarium graminearum, a major pathogen of cultivated cereals, was sequenced and annotated and many highly polymorphic regions contained sets of genes implicated in plant-fungus interactions and were unusually divergent, with higher rates of recombination.
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Phylogenomic analysis of type I polyketide synthase genes in pathogenic and saprobic ascomycetes

TL;DR: A phylogenomic approach was used to investigate the origin and diversity of fungal genes encoding putative PKSs that are predicted to synthesize type I PKs and found that the discontinuous distributions of orthologous P KSs among fungal species can be explained by gene duplication, divergence, and gene loss.