In a letter to the editor to the journal Nature, regarding the recently discovered/induced sexual stage in Aspergillus fumigatus, David Hawksworth argues that using the separate names for sexual (teleomorph) and asexual (anamorph) stages is confusing and unnecessary in this context. The name Neosartorya fumigata is given to the sexual stage which was produced from two [...]
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A manuscript at Nature AOP details the success of the Dyer lab and collaborators in encouraging [[Aspergillus fumigatus]] to complete the sexual cycle under observable (e.g. laboratory) conditions. The authors are the teleomorph (sexual or perfect) stage [[Neosartorya fumigata]] for a fungus that had been previously only had an observed anamorphic stage. A. fumigatus can reproduce asexually forming structures called [[conidiophores]] which produce asexual spores called [[conidiospores]] (or mitospores as they are produced via mitosis) define the anamorph or imperfect stage, but no sexual structures such as [[cleistothecia]] that produce the packaged sexual products as [[ascospores]]. See a presentation by David Geiser (archived at the Aspergillus website) for more detail on some of the morphological and phylogenetic characters that unify the group of Eurotiales [...] BBC news and GTO report the sequence of P. chrysogenum, will be published in October in Nat Biotechnology in a project based at the biotech company DSM. P. chrysogenum being the mold that fortuitously contaminated Dr Fleming’s bacterial plates. The 13,500 reported genes in the press release is quite bit larger than relatives in the [...] The first of several dermatophyte fungal genomes, [[Microsporum gypseum]], has been released at the Broad Dermatophyte site. Two Tricophyton species and another Microsporum genome should follow soon. These dermatophyte fungi are Onygenales (Ascomycota) fungi (like Coccidioides and [...]
Researchers from Technical University of Denmark published some interesting results from comparing expression across the very distinct Aspergillus species. Kudos also goes to making it Open Access. I am posting a few key figures below the fold because I can! They grew the fungi in bioreactors fermenting glucose or xylose. After calibrating the growth curves they were able to sample the appropriate time points for comparison of gene expression across these three species. They found a set of genes commonly expressed.
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Shepard Fairley has gotten alot of notice lately for his Obama art that has been replicated pretty much everywhere. In homage to his earlier street art we’ll discuss the growing Aspergillus genome [...]
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