Somion occarium is a wood-decaying bracket fungus belonging to an order known to be rich in useful chemical compounds. Despite its widespread distribution, S. occarium has been assessed as endangered on at least 1 national Red List, presumably due to loss of old-growth forest habitat. Here, we present a near-complete, annotated nuclear genome assembly for S. occarium consisting of 31 Mbp arranged in 11 pseudochromosomes-9 of which are telomere-to-telomere-as well as a complete mitochondrial genome assembly of 112.9 Kbp. We additionally performed phylogenomic analysis and annotated carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) to compare gene and CAZyme content across closely related species. This genome was sequenced as the representative for Kingdom Fungi in the European Reference Genome Atlas Pilot Project.

Department of Forest Protection and Wildlife Management Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology Mendel University in Brno Brno Czech Republic

Earlham Institute Norwich UK

Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences Prague Czech Republic

School of Biological Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich UK

Tree of Life Wellcome Sanger Institute Hinxton UK

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