This project contains genome assemblies of ectomycorrhizal fungi in the genus Rhizopogon that were collected from throughout the natural range of the ectomycorrhizal host tree, Pseudotsuga (Douglas-fir). Each genome assembly was sequenced from pure fungal cultures isolated during field sampling between the years 2010 and 2014. Genome assemblies were sequenced at low coverage on the Illumina HiSeq platform and used to characterize the phylogeography of the Rhizopogon-Pseudotsuga symbiosis. This was achieved by development of a novel data mining technique, genome scale sequence typing, which was used to extract hundreds of phylogenetically informative loci from these unannotated genome assemblies.
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