Assembly and epigenetics of rice infecting M. oryzae. Pyricularia oryzae

The principal drivers of genome organization and how it influences evolution remains unclear. In plant pathogenic fungi there are different descriptions of genome organization, and we lack a framework to understand the mechanisms and evolutionary consequences of these organizational patterns. To further understand fungal genome organization and evolution, we completed histone modification profiles using genome-wide chromatin immunoprecipitation-sequencing for four new reference strains.