I am excited to announce the publication of another mushroom genome this week. The mushroom Schizophyllum commune is an important model system for mushroom biology, development of genome was sequenced as part of efforts at the Joint Genome Institute and a collection of international researchers. The data and analyses from these efforts are presented in a publication [...]
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I’ll indulge a bit here to happily to point to the cover of this week’s PNAS with an image of Coprinopsis cinerea mushrooms fruiting referring to our article on the genome sequence of this important model fungus. You should also enjoy the commentary article from John Taylor and Chris Ellison that provides a summary of some [...] There are several databases that include orthology prediction for fungi. These all have pros and cons. Some are more comprehensive and have many more species. Some are curated orthologies and paralogy which should be pretty stable. Some are automated and groupings and ortholog group IDs change at each iteration. A phylogenetic approach from a Saccharomyces perspective is [...] Francis Martin has written up a delightful summary pointing to our publication of the genome of Coprinopsis cinereus which appears in the early edition of PNAS and will grace the cover at the end of the month. I encourage you to take a look at Francis’s post and the paper, available as Open Access from PNAS. [...] Several groups working on Fungi are submitting proposals to the JGI Community Sequencing Program. Several proposals relating to the JGI’s interest in an encyclopedia of fungal genomes sequencing genomes of ascomycete and basidiomycete yeasts, filamentous ascomycetes, basidiomycetes, and early diverging fungi are being put forward. If you haven’t been contacted by these community members but would like to write [...] A couple of papers should have captured your attention lately in the realm of fungal genomics. One is the publication of the genome of the black truffle Tuber melanosporum. This appears as an advanced publication at Nature (OA by virtue of Nature’s agreement on genome papers) along with a NYT writeup and is a tasty exploration of [...] Gene sequences evolve at different rates due to different constraints, either due to chromosome position, functional constraint, and status as a single-copy or multi-copy gene. In a recent paper, Allen Rodrigo (the new NESCent director by the, way, congrats!) the authors hypothesize that correlation in branch lengths of gene trees suggest they operate in the same [...] I am excited to dig into the newly published Cellular and Molecular Biology of Filamentous Fungi edited by my next door neighbor Katherine Borkovich and Daniel Ebbole from Texas A&M which was recently published by ASM Press. The book is a comprehensive look at biology of filamentous fungi including ascomycetes and basidiomycetes and covers cellular biology and structure, [...] These papers got lost in my drafts of things to write about. Grants and overdue manuscripts are keeping me away from the blog. Published work from Gary Foster’s lab in Applied Env Micro show progress on genetic engineering tools to express introduced genes in the basidiomycete mushroom system Clitopilus passeckerianus. C. passeckarianus produces an antibiotic, pleuromutilin, an important [...] |
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