Projects

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  High fitness burden of virulence drives genome evolution in a facultative plant pathogen

  Core Project

  Researchers study the dynamics of Agrobacterium tumefaciens, a facultative pathogen, focusing on how a small virulent subpopulation drives horizontal gene transfer while enduring fitness costs.

Publications

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  Sanath-Kumar et al, 2025

  Sanath-Kumar, R., Rahman, A., Ren, Z., Reynolds, I. P., Augusta, L., Fuqua, C., Weisberg, A. J., & Wang, X. (2025). Linear dicentric chromosomes in bacterial natural isolates reveal common constraints for replicon fusion. bioRxiv.

  https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.23.639760