FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 96, 2020, fiaa184 doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiaa184 Advance Access Publication Date: 12 September 2020 Research Article RESEARCH ARTICLE Comparative analyses of saprotrophy in Salisapilia sapeloensis and diverse plant pathogenic oomycetes reveal lifestyle-specific gene expression Sophie de Vries1,*,†, Jan de Vries1,2,3,4,5,‡, John M. Archibald1,§ and Claudio H. Slamovits1,# 1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, 5850 College Street, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2 Canada, 2Institute of Microbiology, Technische Universitat¨ Braunschweig, Spielmannstr. 7, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany, 3Department of Applied Bioinformatics, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, University of Goettingen, Goldschmidtstr. 1, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, 4Goettingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), University of Goettingen, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, 37077 Goettingen, Germany and 5Campus Institute Data Science (CIDAS), University of Goettingen, Goldschmidtstr. 1, 37077 Goettingen, Germany ∗Corresponding authors: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, 5850 College Street, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2 Canada. Tel: +1-902-494-7894; E-mail:
[email protected] One sentence summary: Comparative analyses between the saprotrophic oomycete Salisapilia sapeloensis and its pathogenic relatives indicate that distinct gene expression patterns underpin the different lifestyles in oomycetes. Editor: Angela Sessitsch †Sophie de Vries, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5267-8935 ‡Jan de Vries, http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3507-5195