How old is the idea of effector islands in fungi?

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When was the word mesosynteny first used to describe the unique features of fungal genomes? How old is the discovery?

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1364-3703.2009.00591.x/pdf — VicAche, Dec 20 '15 at 22:10

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 21 '15 at 22:24

Use of mesosynteny was proposed in 2011 in this paper:

Hane JK, Rouxel T, Howlett BJ, Kema GH, Goodwin SB, Oliver RP. A novel mode of chromosomal evolution peculiar to filamentous Ascomycete fungi. Genome Biol. 2011 May 24;12(5):R45.

which says:

This pattern is characterized by the conservation of gene content in chromosomes, without conservation of gene order or orientation; that is, synteny without co-linearity. We propose to call this sequence conservation 'mesosynteny' to distinguish it from micro- and macrosynteny. Mesosynteny appears to be peculiar to the filamentous Ascomycetes (syn. Pezizomycotina), particularly in the class Dothideomycetes.

How old is the idea of effector islands in fungi?

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