TABLE 1.

Known group III histidine kinases and Hog1-related MAP kinases in filamentous fungi

Fungal species	Gene name	% Amino acid sequence identitya	GenBank accession no.	Reference(s)
Group III histidine kinase
Neurospora crassa	Nik1/os-1		U53289	1, 37
Cochliobolus heterostrophus	DIC1	63	AB095748	46
Botrytis cinerea	BcOS1/daf1	78	AF435964	8, 31
Magnaporthe grisea	HIK1	83	AB041647	27
Candida albicans	CaNIK1/COS1	51	AB006363	2, 28
Gibberella moniliformis	GmNIK1	79	AY456038	5
Aspergillus nidulans	Not named	67	Sequencing Projectb
Hogl-related MAP kinase
Neurospora crassa	os-2		AF297032	47
Cochliobolus heterostrophus	BmHog1	90	AB208438	Unpublished
Colletotrichum lagenarium	OSC1	95	AF184980	23
Magnaporthe grisea	OSM1	95	AB162820	9
Aspergillus nidulans	SAKA	80	AF282891	21
Saccharomyces cerevisiae	HOG1	77	L06279	4
Schizosaccharomyces pombe	SPC1/STY1	82	X89262	39

^aAmino acid sequence identities were calculated by DNAsis Maximum Matching program for Os-1p (histidine kinase) and Os-2p (MAP kinase).

^bhttp://www.broad.mit.edu.