Genome Sequence of Aspergillus flavus NRRL 3357, a Strain That Causes Aflatoxin Contamination of Food and Feed

William C Nierman; Jiujiang Yu; Natalie D Fedorova-Abrams; Liliana Losada; Thomas E Cleveland; Deepak Bhatnagar; Joan W Bennett; Ralph Dean; Gary A Payne

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00168-15

Genome Sequence of Aspergillus flavus NRRL 3357, a Strain That Causes Aflatoxin Contamination of Food and Feed

Genome Announc. 2015 Apr 16;3(2):e00168-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00168-15.

Authors

William C Nierman¹, Jiujiang Yu², Natalie D Fedorova-Abrams³, Liliana Losada³, Thomas E Cleveland², Deepak Bhatnagar², Joan W Bennett⁴, Ralph Dean⁵, Gary A Payne⁵

Affiliations

¹ J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA wnierman@jcvi.org.
² Southern Regional Research Center, USDA/ARS, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
³ J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA.
⁴ Rutgers University, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
⁵ Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.

Abstract

Aflatoxin contamination of food and livestock feed results in significant annual crop losses internationally. Aspergillus flavus is the major fungus responsible for this loss. Additionally, A. flavus is the second leading cause of aspergillosis in immunocompromised human patients. Here, we report the genome sequence of strain NRRL 3357.