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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Xiao G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3387728 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20120702
The ascomycete fungus Beauveria bassiana is a pathogen of hundreds of insect species and is commercially produced as an environmentally friendly mycoinsecticide. We sequenced the genome of B. bassiana and a phylogenomic analysis confirmed that ascomycete entomopathogenicity is polyphyletic, but also revealed convergent evolution to insect pathogenicity. We also found many species-specific virulence genes and gene family expansions and contractions that correlate with host ranges and pathogenic s ...[more]