Very excited with @tobybarilbio.bsky.social to share this preprint about his latest work on TEs!
We knew that TEs were very pretty active in this global fungal pathogen of wheat.
Now with nearly 2000 Illumina genomes available, we could finally ask questions about historic TE activation waves.
We knew that TEs were very pretty active in this global fungal pathogen of wheat.
Now with nearly 2000 Illumina genomes available, we could finally ask questions about historic TE activation waves.
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The variation in TE numbers often tracks the expansion out of the pathogen's origin in the Middle East.
We then focused on the TEs showing the most dramatic recent expansions across the genome.
Please read here the preprint and share it: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.02.646807v1