fungi can evolve rapidly. Here, Bottery et al show that resistance to next generation antifungals is more likely to occur within azole resistant Aspergillus fumigatus due to the close linkage ...
Previous studies have shown that similar horizontal gene transfer events contributed to new outbreaks of other pathogens, including potato blight, certain wheat fungal pathogens and Aspergillus ...
The fungus that causes coffee wilt disease repeatedly took up segments of DNA from a related fungal pathogen, which contributed to successive outbreaks of the disease. Lily Peck of Imperial ...