Thorsten Langner
@thorstenlangner.bsky.social
Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tuebingen. Adaptive evolution of filamentous plant pathogens 🌾🍄🧬. Love nature and music 🎸🥁 dogfather 🐕
We performed "rewinding the tape" experiments based on ancestral sequence resurrection of an effector from the blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae to reveal how historical contingency and functional constraints have shaped effector evolution.
August 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
We performed "rewinding the tape" experiments based on ancestral sequence resurrection of an effector from the blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae to reveal how historical contingency and functional constraints have shaped effector evolution.