Mitochondrial genomic characteristics and phylogenetic analysis of a brewing fungus, Rhizopus microsporus Tiegh. 1875 (Mucorales: Rhizopodaceae)

Figures & data

Figure 1. Isolation of the brewing fungus Rhizopus microspores. Photo of the species was taken by Qiang Li.

Figure 2. The Circular mitochondrial genome map of Rhizopus microspores.

Figure 3. Bayesian inference (BI) tree generated using 14 concatenated mitochondrial protein-coding genes (atp6, atp8, atp9, cob, cox1, cox2, cox3, nad1, nad2, nad3, nad4, nad4L, nad5, and nad6) from rhizopus microspores and 25 other fungal species. Apiotrichum gamsii was set as the outgroup (Li et al. 2023). the accession number information of the sequence is as follows: Rhizophagus clarus (LC506577) (Kobayashi et al. 2018), Rhizopus microsporus (OR664025), podila verticillata (CM046764) (Morales et al. 2022), lichtheimia hongkongensis (KJ561171) (Leung et al. 2014), rhizophagus irregularis (JQ514224) (Formey et al. 2012), gigaspora rosea (JQ693395) (Nadimi et al. 2012), linnemannia amoeboidea (MZ411570) (Yang et al. 2022), zancudomyces culisetae (CM007644), Mucor circinelloides f. lusitanicus (KR809877), amoeboradix gromovi (CM032194) (Galindo et al. 2021), glomus cerebriforme (KC164356) (Beaudet et al. 2013), parasitella parasitica (KM382275) (Ellenberger et al. 2014), sanchytrium tribonematis (CM032193) (Galindo et al. 2021), mortierella verticillata (AY863211) (Seif et al. 2005), entomortierella parvispora (LC659289) (Herlambang et al. 2022), absidia glauca (NC_036158) (Ellenberger et al. 2016), gigaspora margarita (MN857242) (Venice et al. 2020), apophysomyces elegans (MT047458), paramicrosporidium saccamoebae (CM008827) (Quandt et al. 2017), mucor piriformis (OW971873) (Papp et al. 1999), rhizophagus fasciculatus (KM586389) (Wang et al. 2020), phycomyces blakesleeanus (KR809878), rhizopus oryzae (CM022329) (Seif et al. 2005), glomus intraradices (FJ648425) (Lee and Young 2009), rhizopus oryzae (CM022358) (Nguyen et al. 2020), and apiotrichum gamsii (MZ439919) (Li et al. 2023).

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Data availability statement

The genome sequence data that support the findings of this study are openly available in GenBank of NCBI at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ under the accession no. OR664025. The associated BioProject, SRA, and Bio-Sample numbers are PRJNA1025866, SRR26320846 and SAMN37723663, respectively.