Draft genome of the fungus-growing termite pathogenic fungus Ophiocordyceps bispora (Ophiocordycipitaceae, Hypocreales, Ascomycota)

Benjamin H Conlon; Jannette Mitchell; Z Wilhelm de Beer; Christian Carøe; M Thomas P Gilbert; Jørgen Eilenberg; Michael Poulsen; Henrik H de Fine Licht

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2017.02.051

Draft genome of the fungus-growing termite pathogenic fungus Ophiocordyceps bispora (Ophiocordycipitaceae, Hypocreales, Ascomycota)

Data Brief. 2017 Mar 8:11:537-542. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2017.02.051. eCollection 2017 Apr.

Authors

Benjamin H Conlon¹, Jannette Mitchell², Z Wilhelm de Beer³, Christian Carøe⁴, M Thomas P Gilbert⁴, Jørgen Eilenberg⁵, Michael Poulsen⁶, Henrik H de Fine Licht⁵

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Social Evolution, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Molecular Ecology, Institute of Biology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Hoher Weg 4, 06099 Halle an der Saale, Germany.
² ARC-PPRI Rietondale, 600 Soutpansberg Road, Rietondale, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.
³ Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Forestry and Agriculture Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng 0001, South Africa.
⁴ Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁵ Section for Organismal Biology, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark.
⁶ Centre for Social Evolution, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Abstract

This article documents the public availability of genome sequence data and assembled contigs representing the partial draft genome of Ophiocordyceps bispora. As one of the few known pathogens of fungus-farming termites, a draft genome of O. bispora represents the opportunity to further the understanding of disease and resistance in these complex termite societies. With the ongoing attempts to resolve the taxonomy of the Hypocralaean family, more genetic data will also help to shed light on the phylogenetic relationship between sexual and asexual life stages. Next generation sequence data is available from the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) under accession PRJEB13655; run numbers: ERR1368522, ERR1368523, and ERR1368524. Genome assembly available from ENA under accession numbers: FKNF01000001-FKNF01000302. Gene prediction available as protein fasta, nucleotide fasta and GFF file from Mendeley Data with accession doi:10.17632/r99fd6g3s4.2 (http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/r99fd6g3s4.2).