Draft Genome Sequence of the Termite-Associated "Cuckoo Fungus," Athelia (Fibularhizoctonia) sp. TMB Strain TB5

Zachary Konkel; Kelsey Scott; Jason C Slot

doi:10.1128/MRA.01230-20

Draft Genome Sequence of the Termite-Associated "Cuckoo Fungus," Athelia (Fibularhizoctonia) sp. TMB Strain TB5

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Jan 7;10(1):e01230-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01230-20.

Authors

Zachary Konkel¹, Kelsey Scott², Jason C Slot^{3

2}

Affiliations

¹ Center for Applied Plant Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
² Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
³ Center for Applied Plant Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA slot.1@osu.edu.

Abstract

Atheliales is a diverse order of crust-forming Basidiomycota fungi. Here, we report the draft genome of the "cuckoo fungus," Athelia (Fibularhizoctonia) sp. TMB strain TB5 (Atheliales), which forms termite-egg-mimicking sclerotia that termites tend. We further compare its repertoire of psilocybin gene homologs to homologs previously reported for Fibularhizoctonia psychrophila.