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Perithecia of Nectriopsis oropensoides growing superficially on the mushroom Hymenochaete.
Perithecia of Nectriopsis oropensoides growing superficially on the mushroom Hymenochaete.
Image by Björn Wergen from ASCOFrance.

The transcriptome and whole genome of the ascomycete Nectriopsis sporangiicola NRRL 22127 = CBS 166.74 (Pezizomycotina, Sordariomycetes) were sequenced within the framework of the 1000 Fungal Genomes community sequencing project to represent a member of the family Bionectriaceae (Order Hypocreales, Rossman et al. 1999). Species within this family typically produce white to orange perithecia on myxomycetes (true slime molds), lichens and free-living fungi. Nectriopsis sporangiicola NRRL 22127 was collected growing on the myxomycetous true slime mold Physarum polycephalum (Kingdom Amoebozoa) in New Jersey. Mature perithecia produce asci in which eight 1-septate ascospores are produced (Samuels 1988). During the asexual reproductive phase, N. sporangiicola produces a Gliocladium-like conidial state (Rehner and Samuels 1994). The whole genome should provide a window into the metabolic potential of this bionectriaceous fungus.


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