TEs are expressed in *Rhinella marina* specimens submitted to immune and stress challenge, and could help to generate a rapid response to the environment. This TEs colud also be activated in the germinative cells as well producing variability to be selected and shaped by the evolutionary processes behind the success of this invasive species. Thus, the TEs are important targets for investigation in the context of *R. marina* adaptation.
Mating-type genes in the *Citrus*-associated *Phyllosticta* species are highly variable in their sequence content, but the genomic locations and organization of the mating-type loci are conserved. Ancestral state reconstruction suggests that homothallism is the ancestral thallism state in *Phyllosticta*, with a shift to heterothallism in *Phyllosticta* species that are pathogenic to *Citrus*.
My second poster for ECFG15 in Rome, Italy.