Gap-free comparative genomics uncover virulence factors for Fusarium wilt of watermelons

Dilay Hazal Ayhan, Huan Wang, Lili Zhang, Guan Wang, Shu Yi, Dian Meng, Lifang Xue, Xin Geng, Zhijun Kong, Xinrui Wang, Lu Wang, Qingxian Yang, Xiangfeng Wang, Yun Deng, Xingping Zhang, Li Guo

PLoS Pathogens, 2025

Molecular Consequences of CCN6 Variants Encoding WISP3 in Progressive Pseudorheumatoid Dysplasia

Gulipek Guven Tasbicen, Ali Tufan, Batuhan Savsar, A. Bulbul, Zeynep Tonbul, Elif Guzel, Dilay Hazal Ayhan, A. Timucin, U. I. Onat, Gunseli Bayram Akcapinar, Ozlem Akgun Dogan, Yasemin Alanay, E. Tahir Turanlı

International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2025

Host-specific adaptation in Fusarium oxysporum correlates with distinct accessory chromosome content in human and plant pathogenic strains

Dilay Hazal Ayhan, Serena Abbondante, Domingo Martínez-Soto, Siyuan Wu, Ricardo Rodríguez-Vargas, Shira Milo, Katherine Rickelton, Vista Sohrab, Shunsuke Kotera, Tsutomu Arie, M. Marshall, Marina Campos Rocha, S. Haridas, I. Grigoriev, Neta Shlezinger, Eric Pearlman, Li-Jun Ma

mBio, 2025

Super pangenome of Vitis empowers identification of downy mildew resistance genes for grapevine improvement

Li Guo, Xiangfeng Wang, Dilay Hazal Ayhan, M. Rhaman, Ming Yan, Jianfu Jiang, Dongyue Wang, Wei Zheng, Junjie Mei, Wei Ji, Jian Jiao, Shaoyin Chen, Jie Sun, Shu Yi, Dian Meng, Jing Wang, Mohammad Nasim Bhuiyan, Guochen Qin, Linling Guo, Qingxian Yang, Xuenan Zhang, Haisheng Sun, Chonghuai Liu, Xing Wang Deng, Wenxiu Ye

Nature Genetics, 2025

Transposons and accessory genes drive adaptation in a clonally evolving fungal pathogen

Cristina López Díaz, Dilay Hazal Ayhan, Ana Rodríguez López, Lucía Gómez Gil, Li-Jun Ma, Antonio Di Pietro

Nature Communications, vol. 16, 2025 Jul, p. 6982

A gap-free genome assembly of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. conglutinans, a vascular wilt pathogen

Huan Wang, Gang Yao, Weikai Chen, Dilay Hazal Ayhan, Xiangfeng Wang, Jie Sun, Shu Yi, Tan Meng, Shaoyin Chen, Xin Geng, Dian Meng, Lili Zhang, Li Guo

Scientific Data, 2024

Two telomere-to-telomere gapless genomes reveal insights into Capsicum evolution and capsaicinoid biosynthesis

Weikai Chen, Xiangfeng Wang, Jie Sun, Xinrui Wang, Zhangsheng Zhu, Dilay Hazal Ayhan, Shu Yi, Ming Yan, Lili Zhang, Tan Meng, Yu Mu, Jun Li, Dian Meng, Jianxin Bian, Ke Wang, Lu Wang, Shaoyin Chen, Ruidong Chen, Jingyun Jin, Bosheng Li, Xingping Zhang, Xing Wang Deng, Hang He, Li Guo

Nature Communications, 2024

FoPGDB: a pangenome database of Fusarium oxysporum, a cross-kingdom fungal pathogen

Tan Meng, Hanqing Jiao, Yi Zhang, Yi Zhou, Shaoyin Chen, Xinrui Wang, Bowen Yang, Jie Sun, Xin Geng, Dilay Hazal Ayhan, Li Guo

Database J. Biol. Databases Curation, 2024

Conservation and Expansion of Transcriptional Factor Repertoire in the Fusarium oxysporum Species Complex

Houlin Yu, Han Yang, S. Haridas, Richard D. Hayes, Hunter Lynch, Sawyer Andersen, Madison Newman, Gengtan Li, Domingo Martínez-Soto, Shira Milo-Cochavi, Dilay Hazal Ayhan, Yong Zhang, I. Grigoriev, Li‐Jun Ma

Journal of Fungi, 2023

CUR(E)ating a new approach to study fungal effectors and enhance undergraduate education through authentic research

Gengtan Li, Mai McWilliams, Matheus Rodrigues, Benjamin Mearkle, Nader Jaafar, Vivek Golla, Houlin Yu, Han Yang, Dilay Hazal Ayhan, Kelly Allen, Domingo Martínez-Soto, Amy L Springer, Li-Jun Ma

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2023

High-Quality Draft Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genome Sequence of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. albedinis strain 9, the Causal Agent of Bayoud Disease on Date Palm.

Siham Khoulassa, Benaïssa Elmoualij, M. Benlyas, R. Meziani, Eimad dine Tariq Bouhlali, Benamar Houria, Youssef El Hilali Alaoui, S. Haridas, Jie Guo, A. Lipzen, Catalina Vega Hurtado, S. Tejomurthula, K. Barry, I. Grigoriev, Jeffrey J. Coleman, Dilay Hazal Ayhan, Li‐Jun Ma, A. Essarioui

Plant Disease, 2022

Genome Sequence Resource of Fusarium graminearum TaB10 and Fusarium avenaceum KA13, Causal Agents of Stored Apple Rot

M. Petreš, J. Hrustić, N. Vučinić, Li‐Jun Ma, Dilay Hazal Ayhan, M. Grahovac

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 2022

Genome Sequence of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. matthiolae, a Brassicaceae Pathogen.

Houlin Yu, Dilay Hazal Ayhan, A. Diener, Li‐Jun Ma

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 2020

TEfinder: A Bioinformatics Pipeline for Detecting New Transposable Element Insertion Events in Next-Generation Sequencing Data

Vista Sohrab, Cristina López-Díaz, A. Di Pietro, Li‐Jun Ma, Dilay Hazal Ayhan

Genes, 2020

The genome of opportunistic fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum carries a unique set of lineage-specific chromosomes

Yong Zhang, He Yang, D. Turrà, Shiguo Zhou, Dilay Hazal Ayhan, Gregory A. DeIulio, Li Guo, Karen Broz, N. Wiederhold, Jeffrey J. Coleman, Kerry O' Donnell, I. Youngster, A. McAdam, S. Savinov, Terrance Shea, Sarah K. Young, Qiandong Zeng, M. Rep, E. Pearlman, D. Schwartz, A. Di Pietro, H. Kistler, Li‐Jun Ma

Communications Biology, 2020

Improved Assembly of Reference Genome Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici Strain Fol4287

Dilay Hazal Ayhan, Cristina López-Díaz, A. Di Pietro, Li‐Jun Ma

Microbiology Resource Announcements, 2018

Sequence-Specific Targeting of Bacterial Resistance Genes Increases Antibiotic Efficacy

Dilay Hazal Ayhan, Y. T. Tamer, M. Akbar, Stacey M Bailey, Michael Wong, Seth M. Daly, D. Greenberg, Erdal Toprak

PLoS Biology, 2016

Quantifying the Determinants of Evolutionary Dynamics Leading to Drug Resistance

G. Chevereau, M. Dravecká, Tugce Batur, Aysegul Guvenek, Dilay Hazal Ayhan, Erdal Toprak, T. Bollenbach

PLoS Biology, 2015