Universities target bread mould genome

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Date accessed: 06 February 2001

Nature 408, 762 (2000) © Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

[SAN DIEGO ] Four US universities have won a $5.25 million grant from the National Science Foundation to sequence the genome of the fungus Neurospora crassa, which they say will be a valuable model for human genetics.

Full sequencing of the 10,000 to 15,000 genes of the fungus, a type of bread mould, is to be completed over two years. The project involves scientists at the Whitehead Institute in Massachusetts, the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, the University of Kentucky, and the Fungal Genetics Stock Center at Kansas University. Researchers at Oregon University will provide the fungal DNA for sequencing.

Category: 32. Genome Project