Signatures of Mollicutes-related endobacteria in publicly available Mucoromycota genomes.

ABSTRACT: Mucoromycota fungi and their Mollicutes-related endobacteria (MRE) are an ideal system for studying bacterial-fungal interactions and evolution due to the long-term and intimate nature of their interactions. However, methods for detecting MRE face specific challenges due to the poor representation of MRE in sequencing databases coupled with the high sequence divergence of their genomes, making traditional similarity searches unreliable. This has precluded estimations on the diversity of MRE associated with Mucoromycota. To determine the prevalence of previously undetected MRE in fungal genome sequences, we scanned 389 Mucoromycota genome assemblies available from the National Center for Biotechnology Information for the presence of MRE sequences using publicly available tools to map contig

SUBMITTER: Longley R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11423566 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature