Draft Genome Sequence and Annotation of the Lichen-Forming Fungus Arthonia radiata

Ellie E Armstrong; Stefan Prost; Damien Ertz; Martin Westberg; Andreas Frisch; Mika Bendiksby

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00281-18

Draft Genome Sequence and Annotation of the Lichen-Forming Fungus Arthonia radiata

Genome Announc. 2018 Apr 5;6(14):e00281-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00281-18.

Authors

Ellie E Armstrong^#¹, Stefan Prost^#^{1

2}, Damien Ertz^{3

4}, Martin Westberg⁵, Andreas Frisch⁶, Mika Bendiksby⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
² Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
³ Department of Research, Botanic Garden Meise, Meise, Belgium.
⁴ Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Direction Générale de l'Enseignement non Obligatoire et de la Recherche Scientifique, Brussels, Belgium.
⁵ Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
⁶ NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
⁷ NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway mika.bendiksby@ntnu.no.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

We report here the draft de novo genome assembly, transcriptome assembly, and annotation of the lichen-forming fungus Arthonia radiata (Pers.) Ach., the type species for Arthoniomycetes, a class of lichen-forming, lichenicolous, and saprobic Ascomycota. The genome was assembled using overlapping paired-end and mate pair libraries and sequenced on an Illumina HiSeq 2500 instrument.