Draft genome sequence of Acremonium thermophilum Gams & Lacey, a distinct evolutionary lineage within the Cephalothecaceae (Ascomycota, Sordariomycetes).
The strain CBS 734.71, isolated from heated hay (Rothamsted, England, UK), was identified as Acremonium thermophilum by Gams and Lacey (1972). Acremonium thermophilum CBS 734.71 falls within the monophyletic Cephalothecaceae (family incertae sedis in Sordariomycetes) as inferred by means of DNA sequence analysis (see Davolos et al., Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2019; 69(4): 1099-1110).