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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2025

Pseudogenes and host specialization in the emergent bacterial plant pathogen

Navdeep Kaur, Neha Potnis, Leonardo De La Fuente

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Genome Evolution in Plant Pathogenic Bacteria.Genome biology and evolution · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Navdeep KaurDepartment of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA.ORCID 0009-0001-7215-8574
Neha PotnisDepartment of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA.
Leonardo De La FuenteDepartment of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0027-4840

Funding

Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station HATCHEuropean Union's Horizon Action 101060593
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pseudogenes are regarded as "junk" DNA, representing vestigial functions no longer needed for fitness. Accordingly, a higher number of pseudogenes in a bacterial human pathogen was previously hypothesized to be a hallmark of host specialists. In this study, we tested this hypothesis on the emergent bacterial plant pathogen

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Host SpecificityPlant DiseasesPseudogenesXylellaGenome, Bacterialhost generalistshost rangehost specialistintergenicPseudofinderweeds

Identifiers

PMID40207969
PMCPMC12093968

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