Genomics

This project has been published in Nature Communications in February 2023 and can be found here. You can find a very short summary of our main findings below. Human activity has a tremendous impact on the evolutionary trajectories of many species worldwide.

Using several fully assembled Zymoseptoria genomes, we describe here a high level of conservation in genomic, epigenomic and transcriptomic composition and structure across the genus Zymoseptoria, despite previous reports of high genomic plasticity in Z. tritici. The compartmentalized genome allows the maintenance of a functional core genome co-occurring with a highly variable accessory genome.