Fusarium verticillioides Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Fusarium verticillioides 7600

Fusarium verticillioides is the most commonly reported fungal species infecting maize. Fusarium verticillioides is the accepted name of the species, which was also known as Fusarium moniliforme. The species has also been described as mating population A of the Fusarium fujikuroi species complex. F. verticllioides produces the mutagenic chemical compound fusarin C. F. verticillioides produces a group of disease-causing mycotoxins—fumonisins—on infected kernels.

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Annotation

The assembly and annotation of Fusarium verticillioides is provided by the Broad Institute. Non coding RNA genes have been annotated using tRNAScan-SE (Lowe, T.M. and Eddy, S.R. 1997), RFAM (Griffiths-Jones et al 2005), and RNAmmer (Lagesen K.,et al 2007); additional analysis tools have also been applied.

References

1. Comparative analysis of 87,000 expressed sequence tags from the fumonisin-producing fungus Fusarium verticillioides.
   Brown DW, Cheung F, Proctor RH, Butchko RA, Zheng L, Lee Y, Utterback T, Smith S, Feldblyum T, Glenn AE et al. 2005. Fungal Genet. Biol.. 42:848-861.
2. Comparative genomics reveals mobile pathogenicity chromosomes in Fusarium.
   Ma LJ, van der Does HC, Borkovich KA, Coleman JJ, Daboussi MJ, Di Pietro A, Dufresne M, Freitag M, Grabherr M, Henrissat B et al. 2010. Nature. 464:367-373.

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Other Data

EST sequences were mapped to the genome using Exonerate.

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.