Table 1.

Summary of the Aspergillus nidulans sporulation genes abaA, brlA, flbB, flbC, and stuA, and all potential homologs identified in Zymoseptoria tritici.

A. nidulans gene name	NCBI protein accession number	Protein information	Number of BLAST hits in Z. tritici	Protein identification number of BLAST hits in Z. tritici	Alignment score	Percentage similarity of Z. tritici protein to A. nidulans protein (%)
abaA “abacus”	XP_658026	TEA/ATTS domain family	1	92404*	234	54.9
brlA “bristle”	CBF88417	C2H2 Zinc finger	8	100355*	169	37.6
				46840*	162	54.0
				100278	141	52.1
				89374	122	33.3
				10443	120	40.0
				15680	119	53.8
				31676*	108	41.8
				46610	101	30.0
flbB “fluffy B”	CBF79600	BZIP-type transcription factor	3	66896*	579	52.8
				97280	165	64.6
				35076	110	34.6
flbC “fluffy C”	CBF86815	Zinc finger, C2H2 type	7	100355*	595	68.6
				14264	353	40.5
				46610	233	35.6
				31676	185	56.4
				100278	139	43.6
				89374	119	45.5
				107126	100	37.3
stuA “stunted”	AAA33325	KilA-N domain	2	93828*	862	65.1
				48696	159	38.5

Each A. nidulans gene is listed with the protein accession number and protein information collected from the National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov). The A. nidulans protein FASTA sequences were BLAST searched against the Z. tritici genome database (http://genome.jgi-psf.org/Mycgr3/Mycgr3.home.html) using the tblastn and Filtered Models (transcripts) algorithms. The total number of BLAST hits in Z. tritici, protein alignment score and percentage similarity to the original A. nidulans gene are listed. Z. tritici proteins identified for downstream knock-out studies are marked with an asterisk (^*).