Evolution of an endofungal lifestyle: Deductions from the Burkholderia rhizoxinica genome.

Lackner G, Moebius N, Partida-Martinez LP, Boland S, Hertweck C (2011) Evolution of an endofungal lifestyle: Deductions from the Burkholderia rhizoxinica genome. BMC Genomics 12, 210.

Abstract

Burkholderia rhizoxinica is an intracellular symbiont of the phytopathogenic zygomycete Rhizopus microsporus, the causative agent of rice seedling blight. The endosymbiont produces the antimitotic macrolide rhizoxin for its host. It is vertically transmitted within vegetative spores and is essential for spore formation of the fungus. To shed light on the evolution and genetic potential of this model organism, we analysed the whole genome of B. rhizoxinica HKI 0454 - a type strain of endofungal Burkholderia species.

Leibniz-HKI-Autor*innen

Christian Hertweck
Gerald Lackner

Identifier

doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-210

PMID: 21539752