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 foveaconica MNHN-RF-02366
Fungal strain MNHN-RF-02386 was isolated from dung of waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus defassa) in N’Garba, Central African Republic. Neurospora foveaconica is synonym of Gelasinospora foveaconica. It belongs to Sordariales, family Sordariaceae. The species was initially described by French mycologist Roger Cailleux in Bulletin trimestriel de la société mycologique de France in 1971, following collections in Central African Republic.
