Presentation Year

2025

Depreciated Participant

Oscar Vargas Biological Sciences Faculty ov20@humboldt.edu

College or Department

Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

Plants and their pathogens are often described as being in an "evolutionary arms race" that allows them to continue their survival. Effector molecules, which are what pathogens use to combat plant defenses, are encoded by genes that have often been observed to be located in more dense parts of the genome, providing a potential mechanism to accumulate more mutations than other genes. In this project, I used several statistical models to quantify the compartmentalization of effector genes. Understanding the genomes of some of the world's most devastating pathogens can inform the development of mitigation strategies that target stable characters which will not evolve rapidly.

Permission to Publish Work

Yes

Primary Contact: First Name

Charlie

Primary Contact: Last Name

Deible

Primary Contact: Email

cd214@humboldt.edu

Primary Contact: I am a

Undergraduate Student

Primary Contact: Phone Number

4126001241

Node ID

1717

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