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.
