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Neurospora

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Noun1.Neurospora - genus of fungi with black perithecia used extensively in genetic research; includes some forms with orange spore masses that cause severe damage in bakeries
fungus genus - includes lichen genera
family Sphaeriaceae, Sphaeriaceae - parasitic fungi having globose and sometimes necked or beaked perithecia


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Kuck, (2004) Comparative sequence analysis of Sordaria macrospora and Neurospora crassa as a means to improve genome annotation, Fungal Genetics and Biology, 41, 285-292.
At the San Francisco conference, posters reported on investigations of even more enzymes from various sources: bacteria that live in the deep sea, penicillin, diseased sea squirts, the bread mold Neurospora, a yeast that grows on wood-boring beetles and soil microbes from a Puerto Rican rainforest.
They have documented the workings of FRQ and most other components in the Neurospora clock.
 
 
 
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