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, Universität Wien
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://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/black-fungi-and-ants-a-genomic-comparison-of-species-inhabiting-carton-nests-versus-domatia(1ade29e4-2601-4276-a9f9-59409e2c74bf).html