Megan C. McDonald

Megan C. McDonald

University of Birmingham

H-index: 19

Europe-United Kingdom

About Megan C. McDonald

Megan C. McDonald, With an exceptional h-index of 19 and a recent h-index of 18 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Birmingham, specializes in the field of Plant Pathology, population genetics, fungal effectors, comparative genomics.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

SAHDA: Sequence Alignment from Haplotype De Novo Assembly

The Role of Tox Effector Proteins in the Parastagonospora nodorum–Wheat Interaction.

Evolution of the ToxB gene in Pyrenophora tritici-repentis and related species

A Revised Nomenclature for ToxA Haplotypes Across Multiple Fungal Species

That's no moon, it's a Starship: Giant transposons driving fungal horizontal gene transfer

A thousand-genome panel retraces the global spread and adaptation of a major fungal crop pathogen

The pangenome of the wheat pathogen Pyrenophora tritici-repentis reveals novel transposons associated with necrotrophic effectors ToxA and ToxB

Scaling-up to understand tree–pathogen interactions: A steep, tough climb or a walk in the park?

Megan C. McDonald Information

University

Position

Lecturer

Citations(all)

1772

Citations(since 2020)

1178

Cited By

1003

hIndex(all)

19

hIndex(since 2020)

18

i10Index(all)

26

i10Index(since 2020)

25

Email

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University of Birmingham

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Megan C. McDonald Skills & Research Interests

Plant Pathology

population genetics

fungal effectors

comparative genomics

Top articles of Megan C. McDonald

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

SAHDA: Sequence Alignment from Haplotype De Novo Assembly

Joseph C Blackwell

Megan Mcdonald

2023/1/16

The Role of Tox Effector Proteins in the Parastagonospora nodorum–Wheat Interaction.

Megan C McDonald

Simon J Williams

Peter S Solomon

2022/12/8

Evolution of the ToxB gene in Pyrenophora tritici-repentis and related species

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Mohamed Hafez

Ryan Gourlie

Megan McDonald

Melissa Telfer

Marcelo A Carmona

...

2024/3/27

A Revised Nomenclature for ToxA Haplotypes Across Multiple Fungal Species

Phytopathology®

Reem Aboukhaddour

Mohamed Hafez

Megan McDonald

Caroline S Moffat

Sudhir Navathe

...

2023/7/28

That's no moon, it's a Starship: Giant transposons driving fungal horizontal gene transfer

Molecular Microbiology

Angus H Bucknell

Megan C McDonald

2023/6/13

A thousand-genome panel retraces the global spread and adaptation of a major fungal crop pathogen

Nature Communications

Alice Feurtey

Cécile Lorrain

Megan C McDonald

Andrew Milgate

Peter S Solomon

...

2023/2/24

The pangenome of the wheat pathogen Pyrenophora tritici-repentis reveals novel transposons associated with necrotrophic effectors ToxA and ToxB

BMC biology

Ryan Gourlie

Megan McDonald

Mohamed Hafez

Rodrigo Ortega-Polo

Kristin E Low

...

2022/10/24

Scaling-up to understand tree–pathogen interactions: A steep, tough climb or a walk in the park?

Mojgan Rabiey

Thomas Welch

Rosa Sanchez-Lucas

Katie Stevens

Mark Raw

...

2022/8/1

Multi-stage resistance to Zymoseptoria tritici revealed by GWAS in an Australian bread wheat diversity panel

Frontiers in Plant Science

Nannan Yang

Ben Ovenden

Brad Baxter

Megan C McDonald

Peter S Solomon

...

2022

The complex genomic basis of rapid convergent adaptation to pesticides across continents in a fungal plant pathogen

Molecular Ecology

Fanny E Hartmann

Tiziana Vonlanthen

Nikhil K Singh

Megan McDonald

Andrew Milgate

...

2021/1/1

Addressing the climate challenge

Joe Acton

Paul Anderson

Lauren Andres

Michael Angus

Peter Amor

...

2021/9/9

Remarkable recent changes in the genetic diversity of the avirulence gene AvrStb6 in global populations of the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici

Molecular Plant Pathology

Christopher Stephens

Fatih Ölmez

Hannah Blyth

Megan McDonald

Anuradha Bansal

...

2021/9

The identification of a transposon affecting the asexual reproduction of the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici

Molecular plant pathology

Chen Wang

Andrew W Milgate

Peter S Solomon

Megan C McDonald

2021/7

Victorin, the host-selective cyclic peptide toxin from the oat pathogen Cochliobolus victoriae, is ribosomally encoded

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Simon C Kessler

Xianghui Zhang

Megan C McDonald

Cameron LM Gilchrist

Zeran Lin

...

2020/9/29

Assessing the efficacy of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in the wheat pathogen Parastagonspora nodorum

Fungal biology and biotechnology

Haseena Khan

Megan C McDonald

Simon J Williams

Peter S Solomon

2020/12

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Co-Authors

H-index: 70
Richard Peter Oliver

Richard Peter Oliver

Curtin University

H-index: 53
Peter Solomon

Peter Solomon

Australian National University

H-index: 51
Daniel Croll

Daniel Croll

Université de Neuchâtel

H-index: 38
Benjamin Schwessinger

Benjamin Schwessinger

Australian National University

H-index: 36
Zhaohui Liu

Zhaohui Liu

North Dakota State University

H-index: 30
Andrea Sanchez-Vallet

Andrea Sanchez-Vallet

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

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