2012 Fungal Genomes: a review of mycological genomic accomplishments
2012 was certainly a banner year in genome sequence production and publications. The cost of generating the data keeps dropping and the automation for assembly and annotation continues to improve making it possible for a range of groups to publish genomes.
I made a NCBI PubMed Collection of these here Fungal Genomes 2012
Some notable fungal genome publications include
the button mushroom Agaricus bisporus (your pizzas would never be the same without it)
plant pathogens Colletotrichum
comparative analyses of 18 genomes from plant associated Dothideomycetes
new microsporidian genomes including two new Encephalitozoon and C. elegans parasites helping resolve some phylogenetic position of these fungi also explored in another paper.
multiple genomes of the wine spoilage yeast Dekkera
the Chinese medicinal mushroom Ganoderma
the barley pathogen Ustilago hordei and comparison with maize pathogens U. maydis and Sporisorium reilianum
human pathogen Candida orthopsilosis and comparison with its close relative C. parapsilosis.
the basal basidiomycete and xerotolerant Wallemia sebi
The transcriptome of Glomus intraradices
There were also several new insights into the evolution of wood decay fungi derived from new genomes of basidiomycete fungi. This includes
the tree pathogen Heterobasidion annosum
the white rot fungus Ceriporiopsis subvermispora
a draft of the brown rotter Fibroporia radiculosa
a magnum opus reconstructing the evolution history of lignin degradation...
Source: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics - Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Jason Stajich Tags: Agaricomycota basidiomycota candida fungi genome glomeromycota pathogens Ustilago 2012 annotation brown rot fungal genome genome papers lignin decomposition review rotters white rot Source Type: blogs
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