Beauveria bassiana Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Beauveria bassiana

Beauveria bassiana str. ARSEF 8028 is a fungus that grows naturally in soils throughout the world and acts as a parasite on various arthropod species, causing white muscardine disease; it thus belongs to the entomopathogenic fungi. It is being used as a biological insecticide to control a number of pests such as termites, thrips, whiteflies, aphids and various beetles. Its use in the control of bedbugs and malaria-transmitting mosquitos is under investigation.

Assembly

The genome is available from the EMBL/Genbank/DDBJ databases under the accession GCA_001682635.1

Annotation

The gene model annotation provided on this site is from Wageningen University, Netherlands.

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.