Stachybotrys chartarum, also called Stachybotrys atra, Stachybotrys alternans or Stilbospora chartarum, is a black mold that produces its conidia in slime heads. S. chartarum is known as black mold or toxic black mold in the U.S. It is sometimes found in soil and grain, but the mold is most often detected in cellulose-rich building materials from damp or water-damaged buildings. S. chartarum was originally discovered on the wall of a house in Prague in 1837 by Czech mycologist August Carl Joseph Corda. It requires high moisture content in order to grow and is associated with wet gypsum material and wallpaper.
The genome sequence and gene models of Stachybotrys chartarum IBT 40288 were not determined by the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), but were downloaded from Ensembl Fungi on April 11, 2020. Please note that this copy of the genome is not maintained by Ensembl and is therefore not automatically updated. The JGI Annotation Pipeline was used to add additional functional annotation to the author's chromosomes and proteins.
Genome Reference(s)
Semeiks J, Borek D, Otwinowski Z, Grishin NV
Comparative genome sequencing reveals chemotype-specific gene clusters in the toxigenic black mold Stachybotrys.
BMC Genomics. 2014 Jul 12;15():590. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-590