Draft Genome Sequences of Several Fungal Strains Selected for Exposure to Microgravity at the International Space Station

Nitin K Singh; Adriana Blachowicz; Jillian Romsdahl; Clay Wang; Tamas Torok; Kasthuri Venkateswaran

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01602-16

Draft Genome Sequences of Several Fungal Strains Selected for Exposure to Microgravity at the International Space Station

Genome Announc. 2017 Apr 13;5(15):e01602-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01602-16.

Authors

Nitin K Singh¹, Adriana Blachowicz^{1

2}, Jillian Romsdahl², Clay Wang^{2

3}, Tamas Torok⁴, Kasthuri Venkateswaran⁵

Affiliations

¹ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.
² Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
³ Department of Chemistry, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁴ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.
⁵ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA kjvenkat@jpl.nasa.gov.

Abstract

The whole-genome sequences of eight fungal strains that were selected for exposure to microgravity at the International Space Station are presented here. These baseline sequences will help to understand the observed production of novel bioactive compounds.