Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Morris, Cindy E
• Bardin, Marc
• Kinkel, Linda L
• Moury, Benoit
• Nicot, Philippe C
• Sands, David C
• Rall, Glenn F.

Titel

Expanding the paradigms of plant pathogen life history and evolution of parasitic fitness beyond agricultural boundaries

Ist Teil von

• PLoS pathogens, 2009-12, Vol.5 (12), p.e1000693-e1000693

Ort / Verlag

United States: Public Library of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

•   Numerous environmental pathogens, including Cryptococcus neoformans, Legionella spp., Chlamydophila pneumoniae, Mycobacterium avium, Listeria monocytogenes, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Francisella tularensis, might have acquired virulence traits via their resistance to predation by amoebae. Genomics and phylogenetics are revealing the evolutionary link between, for example, commensal strains of Escherichia coli and modern pathogens such as enterohaemorrhagic strains of this species (such as O157).\n However, the complexity of the biotic and abiotic environment perceived by obligate biotrophs during colonization of plants (powdery mildews on leaf surfaces inhabited by other microorganisms, for example) or during their dissemination (survival in air or in association with vectors) are also likely to exert selection independent of that due to the host plant genotype per se.