Exploring the biological roles of Dothideomycetes ABC proteins: Leads from their phylogenetic relationships with functionally-characterized Ascomycetes homologs.

The present analysis is one of the firsts to extensively analyze ABC proteins from Dothideomycetes fungi. Their phylogenetic analysis and annotating the clades with functional information indicated a subset of Dothideomycetes ABC genes that could be considered for experimental validation for their roles in plant pathogenesis and/or fungicide tolerance.