Draft Genome Sequence of the Ectomycorrhizal Ascomycete Sphaerosporella brunnea.
Gian Maria Niccolò BenucciSajeet HaridasKurt LabuttiGiorgio MarozziLivio AntonielliSergio SanchezPedro MarcoXinxin WangKerrie BarryAnna LipzenMansi ChovatiaHope HundleyLeonardo Baciarelli FaliniClaude MuratFrancis MartinEmidio AlbertiniDomizia DonniniIgor V GrigorievGregory M BonitoPublished in: Microbiology resource announcements (2019)
Sphaerosporella brunnea is a pioneer ectomycorrhizal fungus with facultative saprophytic capacities. Here, we sequenced the genome of S. brunnea strain Sb_GMNB300, which is estimated at 51.6 Mb in size with 872 assembled contigs accounting for 12,597 predicted coding genes. This genome will be useful for comparative studies of Pezizales ectomycorrhizal symbioses.