Draft Genome Sequence of the Globally Distributed Cockroach-Infecting Fungus Herpomyces periplanetae Strain D. Haelew. 1187d

Danny Haelewaters; Alicja Okrasińska; Michał Gorczak; Donald H Pfister

doi:10.1128/MRA.01458-19

Draft Genome Sequence of the Globally Distributed Cockroach-Infecting Fungus Herpomyces periplanetae Strain D. Haelew. 1187d

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Feb 6;9(6):e01458-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01458-19.

Authors

Danny Haelewaters^{1

2}, Alicja Okrasińska³, Michał Gorczak³, Donald H Pfister⁴

Affiliations

¹ Farlow Reference Library and Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA danny.haelewaters@gmail.com.
² Department of Biology, Research Group Mycology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
³ Department of Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
⁴ Farlow Reference Library and Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Abstract

Herpomyces periplanetae is an obligate biotroph of Periplaneta americana, the American cockroach. Its nearly cosmopolitan distribution is shaped by its globally invasive host and the international pet trade. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of H. periplanetae, based on a thallus from P. americana collected in Cambridge, Massachusetts.