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8 day old Lunasporangiospora selenospora KOD1015 grown on MEA+YE media. Image by Julian Liber.
8 day old Lunasporangiospora selenospora KOD1015 grown on MEA+YE media. Image by Julian Liber.
8 day old Lunasporangiospora selenospora KOD1015 grown on PDA/2+YE media. Image by Julian Liber.
8 day old Lunasporangiospora selenospora KOD1015 grown on PDA/2+YE media. Image by Julian Liber.

The genome of Lunasporangiospora selenospora KOD1015 was sequenced by JGI in the framework of the ZygoLife project and Community Sequencing Project 1978 – “Genomics of the early diverging lineages of fungi and their transition to terrestrial, plant-based ecologies”. Zygomyceteous fungi are an ancient and diverse group of sexual and filamentous fungi, whose evolutionary history and ecological associations remain poorly resolved. The ZygoLife project aims to: 1) reconstruct the genealogical relationships of this early diverging branch in the fungal tree of life; 2) resolve the origins of symbiotic relationships between plants and zygomycetes; 3) reveal how complex body plans evolved in the group; 4) elucidate mechanisms of mating genetics between organisms with complex and differing life cycles, and; 5) develop genomic barcodes to facilitate identification of unknown fungi. Towards these goals we are sequencing genomes of diverse representative zygomycete taxa.

Lunasporangiospora is a genus of fungi within Mucoromycota, formally classified as Mortierella and belonging to the zygomycetes (Vandepol et al. 2020).  Lunasporangiospora sporangiospores are smooth and characteristically lunate. Chlamydospores are terminal and scarce in L. selenospora and absent in L. chienii. Mating and zygospores are unknown in both species. The species sequenced here, Lunasporangiospora selenospora (isolate KOD1015) was isolated from Illinois, USA, from the wall of a cave.

References:

Vandepol, Natalie, Julian Liber, Alessandro Desirò, Hyunsoo Na, Megan Kennedy, Kerrie Barry, Igor V. Grigoriev, et al. 2020. “Resolving the Mortierellaceae Phylogeny through Synthesis of Multi-Gene Phylogenetics and Phylogenomics.” Fungal Diversity, 1–23.