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Bugnot, @gwenaelp.bsky.social et al. show that resistance to prasinovirus OmV2 in a cosmopolitan phytoplankton species evolves rapidly and consistently, even though no resistance-associated SNPs or shared SVs were identified on standard chromosomes.
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Interchromosomal Translocations and Large Deletions Drive the Evolution of the Outlier Chromosome in the Smallest Photosynthetic Eukaryote
Abstract. Marine microalgal populations can rapidly evolve resistance to viruses upon infection. In Ostreococcus mediterraneus, resistance to the prasinovi
