We want to understand how pathogens adapt and cause diseases. Professor of Evolutionary Genetics @UniNeuchatel. Hobbies: π§π»π§πΌποΈ
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Feb 24, 2023 β’ 11 tweets β’ 8 min read
Excited to have our much-improved 1000-genome πΎ pathogen paper appear in @NatureComms today. This has been a mammoth effort by @AliceFeurtey! Made possible by 24 amazing co-authors sharing decades-worth of collected strains and genomes across the world.
nature.com/articles/s4146β¦
Inspired by the amazing work by the Arabidopsis thaliana community including @PlantEvolution, @magnusnordborg, @joybergelson and many more: Our panel retraces the global spread of Zymoseptoria tritici, a major fungal pathogen of wheat from its origins in The Middle East.