Kate Bailey

TL;DR: This work uses Illumina sequencing to define the genome, transcriptome, and gene models for the obligate biotroph oomycete and Arabidopsis parasite, Albugo laibachii, and suggests that evolution to progressively more intimate association between host and parasite results in reduced selection for retention of certain biosynthetic pathways, and particularly reduced selection of molybdopterin-requiring biosynthetics pathways.

TL;DR: The cloning and molecular characterization of the gene encoding ATR5(Emoy2) is described, an avirulence protein from the downy mildew pathogen Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis isolate Emoy2, which triggers defense response in host lines expressing the functional RPP5 allele from Landsberg erecta (Ler-0).

TL;DR: Sequential infection experiments show that infection by adapted races enables subsequent infection of hosts by normally non-infecting races, which facilitates introgression and the exchange of effector repertoires, and may enable the evolution of novel races that can undergo clonal population expansion on new hosts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors re-sequenced the genome of isolate Ac2V using PacBio long reads and constructed an assembly augmented by Illumina reads, which revealed a dramatic 250% expansion in the CHxC effector class, which they redefined as "CCG" based on motif analysis.