The linear mitochondrial genome of the quarantine chytrid Synchytrium endobioticum; insights into the evolution and recent history of an obligate biotrophic plant pathogen.
Bart T L H van de VossenbergBalázs BrankovicsHai D T NguyenMarga P E van Gent-PelzerDonna SmithKasia DadejJarosław PrzetakiewiczJan F KreuzeMargriet BoermaGerard C M van LeeuwenC André LévesqueTheo A J van der LeePublished in: BMC evolutionary biology (2018)
Mitochondrial genomic variation shows that S. endobioticum has been introduced into Europe multiple times, that several pathotypes emerged multiple times, and that isolates represent communities of different genotypes. Our study represents the most comprehensive dataset of chytrid mitogenomes, which provides new insights into the extraordinary dynamics and evolution of mitochondrial genomes involving linearization, expansion and reshuffling.