ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We thank Lisbeth Thorbek, Ella Thoen and Alexandre Sacré for technical help, Skui Christmas tree plantation for the Abies lasiocarpawood and Dr. Gaétan Le Floch (Université de Brest), Sakae Horisawa (Kochi University of Technology) and Gareth Griffith (Aberystwyth University) for isolates of S. lacrymans . IS, JH, HK acknowledge the University of Oslo and Research Council of Norway (project 221840) and SM, JHS, IS and HK acknowledge the Research Council of Norway (project 254746) for funding. We acknowledge Simon Martin, University of Cambridge, for allowing the use of his scripts for Fst, Dxy and pi along the genome. Sequencing of SL200, SL198 and SL265 was performed by the SNP&SEQ Technology Platform in Uppsala. The facility is part of the National Genomics Infrastructure (NGI) Sweden and Science for Life Laboratory. The SNP&SEQ Platform is also supported by the Swedish Research Council and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. FMM’s lab is funded by the Laboratory of Excellence ARBRE (ANR-11-LABX-0002-01), Region Lorraine, European Regional Development Fund and Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, Beijing Forest University.