Journal article
Sequencing of mitochondrial genomes of nine Aspergillus and Penicillium species identifies mobile introns and accessory genes as main sources of genome size variability
Vinita Joardar, Natalie F Abrams, Jessica Hostetler, Paul J Paukstelis, Suchitra Pakala, Suman B Pakala, Nikhat Zafar, Olukemi O Abolude, Gary Payne, Alex Andrianopoulos, David W Denning, William C Nierman
BMC Genomics | BIOMED CENTRAL LTD | Published : 2012
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The genera Aspergillus and Penicillium include some of the most beneficial as well as the most harmful fungal species such as the penicillin-producer Penicillium chrysogenum and the human pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus, respectively. Their mitochondrial genomic sequences may hold vital clues into the mechanisms of their evolution, population genetics, and biology, yet only a handful of these genomes have been fully sequenced and annotated. RESULTS: Here we report the complete sequence and annotation of the mitochondrial genomes of six Aspergillus and three Penicillium species: A. fumigatus, A. clavatus, A. oryzae, A. flavus, Neosartorya fischeri (A. fischerianus), A. terreus, P. ..
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Awarded by federal funds from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
Awarded by US Department of Agriculture
Funding Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Jennifer Wortman and Qiandong Zeng at the Broad Institute for annotation of the A. nidulans mitochondrial genome, and Stephanie Mounaud and Jaya Onuska at JCVI for their superb technical assistance. This project has been funded in part with federal funds from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services under contract numbers N01-AI-30071 and HHSN272200900007C and from the US Department of Agriculture grant USDA2007-04744.