GOUZY , Jerome

Sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) is a diploid species with an estimated genome size of 338 MB (Arumuganathan et al. 1991). It is mostly self-incompatible, and therefore has a heterozygous genetic background. We have sequenced and assembled the genome of the 'Regina' sweet cherry variety, which is a late blooming cultivar. Here we present a draft...

Penicillium is a diverse fungal genus with hundreds of species occurring worldwide in various substrates, from soil to food, and with various lifestyles, from necrotrophic pathogenicity to endophytic mutualism. Several species are important for human affairs, being widely used in industry, such as the penicillin-producer P. rubens, the two...

Our present understanding of the functioning and evolutionary history of invertebrate innate immunity derives mostly from studies on a few model species belonging to ecdysozoa. In particular, the characterization of signaling pathways dedicated to specific responses towards fungi and Gram-positive or Gram-negative bacteria in Drosophila...

Sex chromosomes in plants and animals and fungal mating-type chromosomes often show exceptional genome features, with extensive suppression of homologous recombination and cytological differentiation between members of the diploid chromosome pair. Despite strong interest in the genetics of these chromosomes, their large regions of suppressed...

Domestication is an excellent model for studies ofadaptation because it involves recent and strong selectionon a few, identified traits [1–5]. Few studieshave focused on the domestication of fungi, withnotable exceptions [6–11], despite their importanceto bioindustry [12] and to a general understandingof adaptation in eukaryotes [5]....

Root-knot nematodes (genus Meloidogyne) exhibit a diversity of reproductive modes ranging from obligatory sexual to fully asexual reproduction. Intriguingly, the most widespread and devastating species to global agriculture are those that reproduce asexually, without meiosis. To disentangle this surprising parasitic success despite the absence...

This Whole Genome Shotgun project has been deposited at DDBJ/ENA/GenBank under the accession PSQE00000000.