Left: Clumps of sporangia and hyphae of Thamnocephalis. Right:
Round target cells of parasite. (photo credit: Timothy James,
University of Michigan)
Thamnocephalis sphaerospora RSA 1356 (Sigmoideomycetaceae: Zoopagomycotina) is the only member so far for the family Sigmoideomycetaceae. Like Piptocephalis, it can be cultured as a mycoparasite on other fungi, in this case on Cokeromyces (a Mucoralean). It is believed to be only a weak parasite that does not make haustoria.
T. sphaerospora represents one of many diverse taxa that are of high interest for the 1000 Fungal Genomes project. It has been selected as part of a Fungal single-cell genome sequencing pilot project.
Genome Reference(s)
Please cite the following publication(s) if you use the data from this genome in your research:
Ahrendt SR, Quandt CA, Ciobanu D, Clum A, Salamov A, Andreopoulos B, Cheng JF, Woyke T, Pelin A, Henrissat B, Reynolds NK, Benny GL, Smith ME, James TY, Grigoriev IV
Leveraging single-cell genomics to expand the fungal tree of life.
Nat Microbiol. 2018 Dec;3(12):1417-1428. doi: 10.1038/s41564-018-0261-0
Ahrendt SR, Quandt CA, Ciobanu D, Clum A, Salamov A, Andreopoulos B, Cheng JF, Woyke T, Pelin A, Henrissat B, Reynolds NK, Benny GL, Smith ME, James TY, Grigoriev IV
Leveraging single-cell genomics to expand the fungal tree of life.
Nat Microbiol. 2018 Dec;3(12):1417-1428. doi: 10.1038/s41564-018-0261-0
