Draft Genome Sequence of the Ectomycorrhizal Ascomycete Sphaerosporella brunnea

Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci; Sajeet Haridas; Kurt Labutti; Giorgio Marozzi; Livio Antonielli; Sergio Sanchez; Pedro Marco; Xinxin Wang; Kerrie Barry; Anna Lipzen; Mansi Chovatia; Hope Hundley; Leonardo Baciarelli Falini; Claude Murat; Francis Martin; Emidio Albertini; Domizia Donnini; Igor V Grigoriev; Gregory Bonito

doi:10.1128/MRA.00857-19

Draft Genome Sequence of the Ectomycorrhizal Ascomycete Sphaerosporella brunnea

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Dec 12;8(50):e00857-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00857-19.

Authors

Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci^{1

2}, Sajeet Haridas³, Kurt Labutti³, Giorgio Marozzi⁴, Livio Antonielli⁵, Sergio Sanchez⁶, Pedro Marco⁶, Xinxin Wang⁷, Kerrie Barry³, Anna Lipzen³, Mansi Chovatia³, Hope Hundley³, Leonardo Baciarelli Falini⁴, Claude Murat⁸, Francis Martin⁸, Emidio Albertini⁴, Domizia Donnini⁴, Igor V Grigoriev^{3

9}, Gregory Bonito^{7

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA benucci@msu.edu.
² Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
³ U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
⁴ Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Science, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
⁵ AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Center for Health and Bioresources, Tulln, Austria.
⁶ Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón (CITA), Zaragoza, Spain.
⁷ Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
⁸ UMR1136 Interactions Arbres-Microorganismes, Laboratoire d'Excellence ARBRE, INRA, Université de Lorraine, Champenoux, France.
⁹ Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.

Abstract

Sphaerosporella brunnea is a pioneer ectomycorrhizal fungus with facultative saprophytic capacities. Here, we sequenced the genome of S. brunnea strain Sb_GMNB300, which is estimated at 51.6 Mb in size with 872 assembled contigs accounting for 12,597 predicted coding genes. This genome will be useful for comparative studies of Pezizales ectomycorrhizal symbioses.