Wallemia genome sequencing and assembly of 23 environmental strains

Wallemia ichthyophaga is among the most halophilic fungi known. It is an obligate halophile (requires salt, or at least high concentrations of other osmolytes, for growth) and grows even in saturated NaCl solutions. It is rarely isolated from nature. Most known environmental isolates were genome sequenced to investigate the population structure of the species and to facilitate future studies of this unusual basidiomycete.