A quick post of some recent comparative genomics papers on our desk that are worth a look.
Khaldi N, Wolfe KH (2008) Elusive Origins of the Extra Genes in Aspergillus oryzae. PLoS ONE 3(8): e3036. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003036. This was a cool but somewhat controversal [...]
Categories: ascomycota · bioinformatics · comparative · fungi · sexual reproduction · zygomycete
Tags: ancestor, aspergillus, comparative, filamentous, fungi, genome, MAT, readings, zygomycete, zygomycetes
I found the headline today, “Biofuels: Fungus Use Improves Corn-to-ethanol Process” and I was curious to find out what fungus they were talking about in the article. It turns out that researchers at Iowa State University found that Rhizopus microsporus is able to grow off part of the leftovers of ethanol production called thin stillage. [...]
Categories: fungi · zygomycete
Tags: biofuels, ethanol, rhizopus, zygomycete
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 project.
Categories: basidiomycota · chytridomycota · euriotiomycetes · fungi · glomeromycota · phylogenetics · s.pombe · saccharomyces · yeast · zygomycete
Tags: basidiomycota, chytridomycota, euriotiomycetes, fungi, glomeromycota, phylogenetics, s.pombe, saccharomyces, yeast, zygomycete
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 sequences”.
Categories: Fungal Genetics · bioinformatics · chytridomycota · cryptococcus · dothideomycetes · euriotiomycetes · filamentous · glomeromycota · homobasidiomycota · horizontal gene transfer · neurospora · news · sordariomycetes · zygomycete
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The JGI has released the Phycomyces blakesleeanus genome. This represents the second Zygomycete genome sequence that has been released in addition to Rhizopus oryzae that was released by the Broad Institute last year. We are now getting a better look at the basal fungal genomes including the Chytrids and Zygomycetes.
Categories: genome · zygomycete
Tags: genome, zygomycete