Starting my bluesky with this super exciting new!
New preprint from Di Pietro's Lab
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
How do fungal pathogens maintain dispensable chromosomes without losing them in clonal evolution?
Here's a thread 🧵
biorxiv.org
Killer meiotic driver prevents chromosome loss and enhances fitness in a fungal pathogen
Fungal pathogens often carry dispensable chromosomes (DCs) that confer a selective advantage in adverse environments or during host infection but can be spontaneously lost under non-selective conditio...