Naohidea sebacea (Berkeley & Broome) Oberwinkler is
a Pucciniomycotina species that has been found parasitizing
fruiting bodies of different Ascomycota species. The strain used
for sequencing originates from rotten wood in Taiwan, where it most
probably was growing on hyphae of other fungi. Other collections of
this fungus are also known from North America and Europe. In
culture, N. sebacea is a non-fermenting budding white
yeast that forms small globose cells. The sexual stage is produced
as minute gelatinous basidiocarps on other fungi. The mycoparasitic
stage of N. sebacea is hyphal and the hyphae have clamp
connections (1).
To date, N. sebacea is the only known member of the genus
and forms a monotypic order, Naohideales, which is currently
believed to be the earliest branching lineage of
Cystobasidiomycetes. Other yeasts in Cystobasidiomycetes produce
pigmented cultures. This project provides the first genomic data
for Naohideales and will be used in phylogenetic and phylogenomic
reconstructions and in comparative genomics studies that seek to
elucidate the molecular bases governing mycoparasitism, the
production of yeast states, and the evolution of pathogenicity in
Pucciniomycotina.
If you would like to use this genome in your research,
please contact Dr. M. Catherine Aime ([email protected]) and Dr.
Igor Grigoriev ([email protected]) for permission.
(1) Sampaio JP, Chen C-J. 2011. Naohidea Oberwinkler (1990). In:
The Yeasts, a Taxonomic Study. 5th edition. Eds: Kurtzman CP, Fell
JW, Boekhout T. Vol 3: 1511–1513.
