By Jason Stajich, on June 13th, 2009
Genome sequencing is underway on several early branches in the Opisthokont and some related linages as part of the “Origins of Multicellularity” project at the Broad Institute (BI) include some recently made available assemblies for:
Allomyces macrogynus (Blastocladiomycota “Chytrid”)
Capsaspora owczarzaki (Ichthyosporea)
Already available data from
Monosiga brevicolis (JGI)
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (JGI, BI) (Chytridiomycota)
Still in progress (BI)
Amastigomonas sp
Amoebidium parasiticum
Nuclearia simplex
Salpingoeca or [...]
By Chris Villalta, on June 5th, 2008
A year ago researchers at James Madison University discovered that, Pedobacter cryoconitis, a bacteria first found on the skin of red backed salamanders, was found to prevent the growth of the chytrid B. dendrobatidis, which is currently decimating frog populations.
By Jason Stajich, on March 26th, 2008
Nature news articles on the frog decline (doi:10.1038/452394a) and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (doi: [...]
By Jason Stajich, on March 11th, 2008
Toko Mori from the Berbee Lab at UBC has an excellent post at the Botany Photo of the day describing a Chytrid that feeds on the algae Vaucheria sessilis. Botany Photo of the Day: Chytriomyces [...]
By Jason Stajich, on March 6th, 2008
The following is an announcement to the B.dendrobatidis and fungal community at large from Alan Kuo at JGI. This is the JAM81 strain (Jess Morgan collected from a frog in the California Sierra Nevada). The JEL423 (Joyce Longcore, collected in Panama) strain genome sequence and annotation is available from the Broad [...]
By Jason Stajich, on November 9th, 2007
New resource on spacialepidemiology.net has maps of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infections worldwide. Demoed at recent conference.
By sharpton, on August 14th, 2007
Frogs have been having a tough time of it lately. While there are likely many contributing factors to the global frog decline, one known cause of frog dieoff is a fungal pathogen: Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Unfortunately, little is known about how this aquatic fungus kills frogs or how the disease was originated and spread.
However, Dr. Jess Morgan and colleagues published in PNAS (open access [...]
By Jason Stajich, on July 4th, 2007
Several more fungi are on the docket for sequencing at JGI through their community sequencing program. This includes
By Jason Stajich, on May 15th, 2007
Lots of papers in Mycologia (subscription required) this month of different groups analyzing the fine-scale relationships of many different fungal clades using the loads of sequences that were generated as part of the Fungal Tree of Life [...]
By Jason Stajich, on March 28th, 2007
I’m including a recapping as many of the talks as I remember. There were 6 concurrent sessions each afternoon so you have to miss a lot of talks. The conference was bursting at the seams as it was- at least 140 people had to be turned away beyond the 750 who attended.
If there was any theme in the conference it was “Hey we are all using these genome [...]
