Draft Genome Sequences of the Black Rock Fungus Knufia petricola and Its Spontaneous Nonmelanized Mutant

Donatella Tesei; Hakim Tafer; Caroline Poyntner; Guadalupe Piñar; Ksenija Lopandic; Katja Sterflinger

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01242-17

Draft Genome Sequences of the Black Rock Fungus Knufia petricola and Its Spontaneous Nonmelanized Mutant

Genome Announc. 2017 Nov 2;5(44):e01242-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01242-17.

Authors

Donatella Tesei¹, Hakim Tafer², Caroline Poyntner², Guadalupe Piñar², Ksenija Lopandic², Katja Sterflinger²

Affiliations

¹ VIBT-Extremophile Center, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria donatella.tesei@boku.ac.at.
² VIBT-Extremophile Center, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.

Abstract

The fungal genus Knufia mostly comprises extremotolerant species from environmental sources, especially rock surfaces. The draft genome sequence of the rock fungus Knufia petricola presented here is the first whole-genome sequence of the only species among black fungi known to have a nonmelanized spontaneous mutant.