Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

A comparative genomics study of 23 Aspergillus species from section Flavi

  • Inge Kjærbølling,
  • Tammi Vesth,
  • Jens C. Frisvad,
  • Jane L. Nybo,
  • Sebastian Theobald,
  • Sara Kildgaard,
  • Thomas Isbrandt Petersen,
  • Alan Kuo,
  • Atsushi Sato,
  • Ellen K. Lyhne,
  • Martin E. Kogle,
  • Ad Wiebenga,
  • Roland S. Kun,
  • Ronnie J. M. Lubbers,
  • Miia R. Mäkelä,
  • Kerrie Barry,
  • Mansi Chovatia,
  • Alicia Clum,
  • Chris Daum,
  • Sajeet Haridas,
  • Guifen He,
  • Kurt LaButti,
  • Anna Lipzen,
  • Stephen Mondo,
  • Jasmyn Pangilinan,
  • Robert Riley,
  • Asaf Salamov,
  • Blake A. Simmons,
  • Jon K. Magnuson,
  • Bernard Henrissat,
  • Uffe H. Mortensen,
  • Thomas O. Larsen,
  • Ronald P. de Vries,
  • Igor V. Grigoriev,
  • Masayuki Machida,
  • Scott E. Baker,
  • Mikael R. Andersen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14051-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Aspergillus fungi classified within the section Flavi include harmful and beneficial species. Here, Kjærbølling et al. analyse the genomes of 23 Flavi species, showing high genetic diversity and potential for synthesis of over 13,700 CAZymes and 1600 secondary metabolites.