Contrasting Codon Usage Patterns and Purifying Selection at the Mating Locus in Putatively Asexual Alternaria Fungal Species

• Jane E. Stewart ,

  * E-mail: jestewart@wsu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

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• Masato Kawabe,

  Current address: Research Team for Detection of Plant Pathogens and Nematodes, National Agricultural Research Center, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

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• Zaid Abdo,

  Affiliation Departments of Mathematics and Statistics and Initiative of Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

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• Tsutomu Arie,

  Affiliation Institute of Symbiotic Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and technology (TUAT), Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tobin L. Peever

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

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