Peltigera membranacea Genome. Peltigera membranacea

Peltigera membranacea, the model organism used in this study, is a foliose cyanolichen with two major symbionts: the mycobiont, a heterotrophic ascomycete, and the photobiont, a Nostoc sp. cyanobacterium. The genome of lichen was using both 454 and Illumina technologies, resulting in 1.76 Gb of 454 data and 1.4 Gb of Illumina data.The P. membranacea genome was assembled into 3,033 scaffolds containing 14,674 contigs with an estimated genome size of 43 Mbp.