Perithecia of various related species of Gelasinospora. 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 galapagosensis FGSC 1739

Fungal strain FGSC 1739 of Neurospora galapagosensis was isolated from soil sample from dwarf woodland dominated by Miconia shrubs, Isla Santa Cruz, Galapagos Islands. It belongs to Sordariales, family Sordariaceae. The species was initially described by Mahoney et al. in 1969 [1]. It morphologically resembles N. dodgei, but the pattern of ascospore sculpturing differs between the two species.