Draft Genome Sequences of Four Aspergillus Section Fumigati Clinical Strains

Renato Augusto Corrêa Dos Santos; Olga Rivero-Menendez; Jacob L Steenwyk; Matthew E Mead; Gustavo Henrique Goldman; Ana Alastruey-Izquierdo; Antonis Rokas

doi:10.1128/MRA.00856-20

Draft Genome Sequences of Four Aspergillus Section Fumigati Clinical Strains

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Oct 1;9(40):e00856-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00856-20.

Authors

Renato Augusto Corrêa Dos Santos^{1

2}, Olga Rivero-Menendez³, Jacob L Steenwyk², Matthew E Mead², Gustavo Henrique Goldman⁴, Ana Alastruey-Izquierdo³, Antonis Rokas⁵

Affiliations

¹ Departmento de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.
² Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
³ Medical Mycology Reference Laboratory, National Center for Microbiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
⁴ Departmento de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil ggoldman@usp.br antonis.rokas@vanderbilt.edu.
⁵ Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA ggoldman@usp.br antonis.rokas@vanderbilt.edu.

Abstract

Aspergillus fungi in section Fumigati include important human pathogens. Here, we sequenced the genomes of two strains of Aspergillus hiratsukae and two strains of Aspergillus felis The average genome sizes are 29.5 Mb for A. hiratsukae and 31.8 Mb for A. felis.

Grants and funding

R56 AI146096/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States