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SUBMITTER: Martin MD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3759036 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Martin Michael D MD Cappellini Enrico E Samaniego Jose A JA Zepeda M Lisandra ML Campos Paula F PF Seguin-Orlando Andaine A Wales Nathan N Orlando Ludovic L Ho Simon Y W SY Dietrich Fred S FS Mieczkowski Piotr A PA Heitman Joseph J Willerslev Eske E Krogh Anders A Ristaino Jean B JB Gilbert M Thomas P MT
Nature communications 20130101
Responsible for the Irish potato famine of 1845-49, the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans caused persistent, devastating outbreaks of potato late blight across Europe in the 19th century. Despite continued interest in the history and spread of the pathogen, the genome of the famine-era strain remains entirely unknown. Here we characterize temporal genomic changes in introduced P. infestans. We shotgun sequence five 19th-century European strains from archival herbarium samples--including t ...[more]