Publications
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Sep 2017
Evolution of polyketide synthesis in a Dothideomycete forest pathogen
Ozturk KI, Chettri P, Dupont P-Y, Barnes I et al.
Fungal Genetics and Biology
Fungal secondary metabolites have many important biological roles and some, like the toxic polyketide aflatoxin, have been...
Jul 2017
Two new Leptographium spp. reveal an emerging complex of hardwood-infecting species in the Ophiostomatales
Jankowiak R, Strzałka B, Bilański P, Linnakoski R et al.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Species of Leptographium are generally characterized by mononematous conidiophores and are commonly associated with bark beetles...
Sep 2017
Which MAT gene? Pezizomycotina (Ascomycota) mating-type gene nomenclature reconsidered
Wilken PM, Steenkamp, Emma T., Wingfield MJ, De Beer ZW et al.
Fungal Biology Reviews
Jun 2017
Optimization of Pheromone Traps for Coryphodema tristis (Lepidoptera: Cossidae)
Bouwer MC, Slippers B, Wingfield MJ, Allison JD et al.
Journal of Economic Entomology
The Coryphodema tristis (Drury) is an important pest of Eucalyptus nitens (Deane and Maiden) plantations in South Africa. The...
Jun 2017
Challenges to planted forest health in developing economies
Hurley BP, Slippers B, Sathyapala S, Wingfield MJ
Biological Invasions
A number of strategies have been proposed to manage the increasing threat of insect pests to non-native plantation forests, but...
Jun 2017
Genome data provides high support for generic boundaries in Burkholderia sensu lato
Beukes CW, Palmer M, Manyaka P, Chan W-Y et al.
Frontiers in Microbiology
Although the taxonomy of <i>Burkholderia</i> has been extensively scrutinized, significant uncertainty remains regarding the...
Jul 2017
Parasitoid assemblage associated with a North American pine weevil in South Africa
Wondafrash M, Slippers B, Garnas J, Hurley BP
Agricultural and Forest Entomology
Abstract The weevil Pissodes sp. was first reported as an introduced pest on exotic Pinus spp. in S outh A frica in 1942. It is...
Jun 2017
Phytophthora versiformis sp. nov., a new species from Australia related to P. quercina
Paap T, Croeser L, White D, Aghighi S et al.
Australasian Plant Pathology
May 2017
The evolutionary significance of polyploidy
Van de Peer Y, Mizrachi E, Marchal K
Nature Reviews Genetics
Polyploidy, or the duplication of entire genomes, has been observed in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms, and in somatic and...