Ascoma, ascus and ascospores of Apiosordaria tenuilacunata. Credit: Guarro, J, Martínez, A.T, & von Arx, J.A. (1984). Persoonia 12(2), 181–184; Released under the CC-BY 4.0 License

CSP 2019 Proposal "Comparative genomics and association mapping in Sordariales: insights into functional diversity in Neurospora and its relatives" aims to investigate the genomic bases of fungal thermophily and thermotolerance, biomass-degradation, and fungal-bacterial interactions. Sequencing multiple populations and species of Sordariales will enable comparative analysis across an order of biomass-degrading fungi frequently encountered in soil, compost and herbivore dung, and encompassing one of the few groups of thermophilic fungi.

Apiosordaria tenuilacunata CBS 629.82

Fungal strain CBS 629.82 was isolated from soil in Sierra de Prades, Spain. Apiosordaria tenuilacunata belongs to Sordariales, family Lasiosphaeriaceae. It was originally described in 1984 [1].