Perithecia of various Gelasinospora species. Source: Cailleux in Bull. trimest. Soc. mycol. Fr. 87(4): 527 (1971) from Bibliothèque nationale de France (gallica.bnf.fr).

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.

Neurospora brevispora FGSC 7795

Fungal strain FGSC 7795 of Neurospora brevispora was isolated from zebra dung, in Tukai Lodge, Kenya. Neurospora brevispora is synonym of Gelasinospora brevispora. It belongs to Sordariales, family Sordariaceae. The species was initially described by Khan & Krug in 1989 [1]. In Latin, "brevis" means "short" and "spora" means “seed”; "brevispora" refers to the relatively small size of the ascospores.