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Asexual spores produced by Phycomyces blakesleeanus strain UBC21. Scale bar = 10 um. Image provided by Alexander Idnurm.
Asexual spores produced by Phycomyces blakesleeanus strain UBC21. Scale bar = 10 um. Image provided by Alexander Idnurm.

The Mucorales species Phycomyces blakesleeanus has served as a model for understanding the evolution of mating systems in fungi.  Most crosses produce zygospores that have a long dormancy (over four months).  Strain UBC21 was identified as a strain that when crossed to the standard laboratory wild-type strain NRRL1555 yields zygospores with a short dormancy of about two months.  This crossing pair was used to generate a genetic map for the species using molecular markers (Chaudhry et al. 2013).  The mapping information and the genome sequence of UBC21 will aid in resolving the genomic scaffolds into a higher order assembly.

Reference:

Chaudhary S, Polaino S, Shakya VPS, Idnurm A. 2013. A new genetic linkage map of the zygomycete Phycomyces blakesleeanus. PLoS One 8: e58931.

Genome Reference(s)

Please cite the following publication(s) if you use the data from this genome in your research:

Lax C, Mondo SJ, Osorio-Concepción M, Muszewska A, Corrochano-Luque M, Gutiérrez G, Riley R, Lipzen A, Guo J, Hundley H, Amirebrahimi M, Ng V, Lorenzo-Gutiérrez D, Binder U, Yang J, Song Y, Cánovas D, Navarro E, Freitag M, Gabaldón T, Grigoriev IV, Corrochano LM, Nicolás FE, Garre V
Symmetric and asymmetric DNA N6-adenine methylation regulates different biological responses in Mucorales.
Nat Commun. 2024 Jul 18;15(1):6066. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-50365-2