Black fungi and ants: a genomic comparison of species inhabiting carton nests versus domatia

Autor(en)

Yu Quan, Nickolas Menezes da Silva, Bruna Jacomel Favoreto de Souza Lima, Sybren de Hoog, Vania Aparecida Vicente, Veronika Mayer, Yingqian Kang, Dongmei Shi

Abstrakt

Some members of Chaetothyriales, an order containing potential agents of opportunistic infections in humans, have a natural habitat in nests of tropical arboreal ants. In these black fungi, two types of ant symbiosis are known, i.e. occurrence in domatia inside living plants, or as components of carton constructions made of ant-chewed plant tissue. In order to explain differences between strains from these types of association, we sequenced and annotated genomes of two newly described carton species, Incumbomyces lentus and Incumbomyces delicatus, and compared these with genomes of four domatia species and related Chaetothyriales. General genomic characteristics, CYP genes, carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes), secondary metabolism, and sex-related genes were included in the study.

Organisation(en)

Department für Botanik und Biodiversitätsforschung

Externe Organisation(en)

Canisius-Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis, Federal University of Parana, Guizhou Medical University, Jining No. 1 People’s Hospital

Journal

IMA Fungus

Band

13

Seiten

1-13

Anzahl der Seiten

13

ISSN

2210-6359

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1186/s43008-022-00091-5

Publikationsdatum

03-2022

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

106008 Botanik, 106012 Evolutionsforschung, 106042 Systematische Botanik

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/1ade29e4-2601-4276-a9f9-59409e2c74bf