Publications

2024

Zaccaron AZ, Chen LH, Stergiopoulos I. Transcriptome analysis of two isolates of the tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum, uncovers genome-wide patterns of alternative splicing during a host infection cycle. PLoS Pathogens, 20(12), e1012791.

Zaccaron AZ, Stergiopoulos I. The dynamics of fungal genome organization and its impact on host adaptation and antifungal resistance. Journal of Genetics and Genomics.

Zaccaron AZ, Stergiopoulos I. Analysis of five near-complete genome assemblies of the tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum uncovers additional accessory chromosomes and structural variations induced by transposable elements effecting the loss of avirulence genes. BMC biology, 22(1), 25.

2023

Zaccaron AZ, Neill T, Corcoran J, Mahaffee WF, Stergiopoulos I. A chromosome-scale genome assembly of the grape powdery mildew pathogen Erysiphe necator reveals its genomic architecture and previously unknown features of its biology. Mbio, e00645-23.

Mesarich CH, Barnes I, Bradley EL, de la Rosa S, de Wit PJ, Guo Y, Griffiths SA, Hamelin RC, Joosten MH, Lu M, McCarthy HM, Schol CR, Stergiopoulos I, Tarallo N, Zaccaron AZ, Bradshaw RE. Beyond the genomes of Fulvia fulva (syn. Cladosporium fulvum) and Dothistroma septosporum: New insights into how these fungal pathogens interact with their host plants. Molecular Plant Pathology. Molecular Plant Pathology, 24(5), 474-494.

2022

Zaccaron AZ, Chen LH, Samaras A, Stergiopoulos I. A chromosome-scale genome assembly of the tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum reveals a compartmentalized genome architecture and the presence of a dispensable chromosome. Microbial Genomics, 8(4).

2021

Zaccaron AZ, Stergiopoulos I. Characterization of the mitochondrial genomes of three powdery mildew pathogens reveals remarkable variation in size and nucleotide composition. Microbial Genomics, 7(12).

Zaccaron AZ, De Souza JT, Stergiopoulos I. The mitochondrial genome of the grape powdery mildew pathogen Erysiphe necator is intron rich and exhibits a distinct gene organization. Scientific reports, 11(1), 13924.

2020

Zaccaron AZ, Stergiopoulos I. First draft genome resource for the tomato black leaf mold pathogen Pseudocercospora fuligena. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 33(12), 1441-1445.

da Silva MP, Zaccaron AZ, Bluhm BH, Rupe JC, Wood L, Mozzoni LA, Mason RE, Yingling S, Pereira A. Bulked segregant analysis using next-generation sequencing for identification of genetic loci for charcoal rot resistance in soybean. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, 109, 101440.

2018

Sharma S, Zaccaron AZ, Ridenour JB, Allen TW, Conner K, Doyle VP, Price T, Sikora E, Singh R, Spurlock T, Tomaso-Peterson M. Draft genome sequence of Xylaria sp., the causal agent of taproot decline of soybean in the southern United States. Data in Brief, 17, 129-133.

2017

Zaccaron AZ, Bluhm BH. The genome sequence of Bipolaris cookei reveals mechanisms of pathogenesis underlying target leaf spot of sorghum. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 17217.

Zaccaron AZ, Woloshuk CP, Bluhm BH. Comparative genomics of maize ear rot pathogens reveals expansion of carbohydrate-active enzymes and secondary metabolism backbone genes in Stenocarpella maydis. Fungal biology, 121(11), 966-983.

Sharma S, Zaccaron AZ, Ridenour JB, Bradshaw A, Kirkpatrick TL, Cartwright K, Bluhm BH. Taxonomic resolution of the nematophagous fungal isolate ARF18 via genome sequencing. Genome announcements, 5(34), 10-1128.

2016

Zaccaron AZ, Adi SS, Higa CH, Araujo E. The maximum similarity partitioning problem and its application in the transcriptome reconstruction and quantification problem. International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications, 7(3), 147-152.