Friday, 28 June 2013

Diversity in Bd

There are now several papers which show that there is quite some genetic diversity in Bd, i.e. there are multiple including. One of them is the "evil strain" known as BdGPL. A new paper that is currently in press by a team of Korean scientists shows that there is even more diversity. These authors have identified new strains from Korea. Here's the link to the paper.