Draft annotated genome of the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium pingshaense isolated from Spodoptera species

Nonthakorn Beatrice Apirajkamol; Andreas Bachler; Wee Tek Tay; Bishwo Mainali; Phillip Taylor; Thomas Kieran Walsh

doi:10.1128/mra.00410-24

Draft annotated genome of the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium pingshaense isolated from Spodoptera species

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2024 Dec 23:e0041024. doi: 10.1128/mra.00410-24. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Nonthakorn Beatrice Apirajkamol^{1

2}, Andreas Bachler², Wee Tek Tay^{1

2}, Bishwo Mainali¹, Phillip Taylor¹, Thomas Kieran Walsh^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Applied BioSciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
² Black Mountain Laboratories, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia.

PMID: 39714144
DOI: 10.1128/mra.00410-24

Abstract

The entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium pingshaense infects diverse insect host species. We present an annotated draft genome of M. pingshaense (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [CSIRO] strain M-1000) isolated from a Spodoptera species individual, thereby contributing to future research of M. pingshaense as a potential biological control agent.

Keywords: Metarhizium; Metarhizium pingshaense; PacBio HiFi; annotated genome; entomopathogenic fungus; fungus; whole genome sequencing.