Rhizopus microsporus by Stephen Mondo
Rhizopus microsporus is a mold classified in the order Mucorales. It is a widely distributed soil fungus that can cause mucormycosis in immunocompromised humans and seedling blight in rice. R. microsporus is one of the very few fungi that harbor bacterial endosymbionts, beta-protoebacteria Burkholderia rhizoxinica and B. endofungorum. Bacterial endosymbionts provision the fungus with potent toxins and control its asexual reproduction. These attributes make R. microsporus into an attractive system to study fungal interactions with bacteria and to decipher reproductive biology of Mucoromycotina.
Genome Reference(s)
Please cite the following publication(s) if you use the data from this genome in your research:
Mondo SJ, Lastovetsky OA, Gaspar ML, Schwardt NH, Barber CC, Riley R, Sun H, Grigoriev IV, Pawlowska TE
Bacterial endosymbionts influence host sexuality and reveal reproductive genes of early divergent fungi.
Nat Commun. 2017 Nov 29;8(1):1843. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02052-8
Mondo SJ, Lastovetsky OA, Gaspar ML, Schwardt NH, Barber CC, Riley R, Sun H, Grigoriev IV, Pawlowska TE
Bacterial endosymbionts influence host sexuality and reveal reproductive genes of early divergent fungi.
Nat Commun. 2017 Nov 29;8(1):1843. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02052-8
