The Sordaria macrospora genome page at the Ruhr-University Bochum

Sordaria macrospora is a filamentous ascomycete that is used as a model organism for the analysis of fungal development and meiosis (the sexual propagation of eukaryotes). To gain more insights into the biology of this fungus, we have sequenced the genome of S. macrospora in an international cooperation of researchers from four different countries.
The genome was assembled from ~96 million reads (~95 million paired-end Solexa reads and 1 million 454 reads). In two follow-up studies, we have improved the assembly through re-sequencing of the wild type and reducing the number of scaffolds in the assembly, and have improved the annotation by modeling untranslated regions based on RNA-seq data. The following table gives a summary of key features of the S. macrospora genome.

genome size	39.8 Mb
chromosomes	7
number of scaffolds (v03)	584
protein coding genes (v03)	9869
transcript from protein-coding genes (v03)	10014

The Sordaria macrospora genome homepage at the Ruhr-University Bochum