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  1. Genetic epidemiology of the Sudden Oak Death pathogen Phytophthora ramorum in California

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    Author(s): S. Mascheretti; P.J.P. Croucher; M. Kozanitas; L. Baker; M. Garbelotto
    Date: 2009
    Source: Molecular Ecology 18:22 4577-4590
    Publication Series: Scientific Journal (JRNL)
    Station: Pacific Southwest Research Station
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04379.x
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    A total of 669 isolates of Phytophthora ramorum, the pathogen responsible for Sudden Oak Death, were collected from 34 Californian forests and from the ornamental plant-trade. Seven microsatellite markers revealed 82 multilocus genotypes (MGs) of which only three were abundant (>10%). Iteratively collapsing based upon minimum ΦST, yielded five meta-samples and five singleton populations. Populations in the same meta-sample were geographically contiguous, with one exception, possibly explained by the trade of infected plants from the same source into different locations. Multidimensional scaling corroborated this clustering and identified nursery populations as genetically most distant from the most recent outbreaks. A minimum-spanning network illustrated the evolutionary relationships among MGs, with common genotypes at the centre and singletons at the extremities; consistent with colonization by a few common genotypes followed by local evolution. Coalescent migration analyses used the original data set and a data set in which local genotypes were collapsed into common ancestral genotypes. Both analyses suggested that meta-samples 1 (Santa Cruz County) and 3 (Sonoma and Marin Counties), act as sources for most of the other forests. The untransformed data set best explains the first phases of the invasion, when the role of novel genotypes may have been minimal, whereas the second analysis best explains migration patterns in later phases of the invasion, when prevalence of novel genotypes was likely to have become more significant. Using this combined approach, we discuss possible migration routes based on our analyses, and compare them to historical and field observations from several case studies.

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    Mascheretti, S.; Croucher, P.J.P.; Kozanitas, M.; Baker, L.; and Garbelotto, M. 2009. Genetic epidemiology of the Sudden Oak Death pathogen Phytophthora ramorum in California. Molecular Ecology 18:22 4577-4590. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04379.x.

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    coalescent analysis, emergent forest disease, microsatellite, network analysis

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