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Horizontal gene transfer plays a major role in the pathological convergence of Xanthomonas lineages on common bean

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Genomics, August 2018
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Title
Horizontal gene transfer plays a major role in the pathological convergence of Xanthomonas lineages on common bean
Published in
BMC Genomics, August 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12864-018-4975-4
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Authors

Nicolas W. G. Chen, Laurana Serres-Giardi, Mylène Ruh, Martial Briand, Sophie Bonneau, Armelle Darrasse, Valérie Barbe, Lionel Gagnevin, Ralf Koebnik, Marie-Agnès Jacques

Abstract

Host specialization is a hallmark of numerous plant pathogens including bacteria, fungi, oomycetes and viruses. Yet, the molecular and evolutionary bases of host specificity are poorly understood. In some cases, pathological convergence is observed for individuals belonging to distant phylogenetic clades. This is the case for Xanthomonas strains responsible for common bacterial blight of bean, spread across four genetic lineages. All the strains from these four lineages converged for pathogenicity on common bean, implying possible gene convergences and/or sharing of a common arsenal of genes conferring the ability to infect common bean. To search for genes involved in common bean specificity, we used a combination of whole-genome analyses without a priori, including a genome scan based on k-mer search. Analysis of 72 genomes from a collection of Xanthomonas pathovars unveiled 115 genes bearing DNA sequences specific to strains responsible for common bacterial blight, including 20 genes located on a plasmid. Of these 115 genes, 88 were involved in successive events of horizontal gene transfers among the four genetic lineages, and 44 contained nonsynonymous polymorphisms unique to the causal agents of common bacterial blight. Our study revealed that host specificity of common bacterial blight agents is associated with a combination of horizontal transfers of genes, and highlights the role of plasmids in these horizontal transfers.

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Unknown 54 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 19%
Student > Master 6 11%
Student > Bachelor 5 9%
Researcher 5 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 7%
Other 9 17%
Unknown 15 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 20 37%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 20%
Unspecified 3 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 2%
Other 2 4%
Unknown 16 30%
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#12,789,912
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#65
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