Tangerine: Genomic Data for a New Family of Fungal Starship Elements

Supporting data for a study identifying the Tangerine family of Starship genetic elements in lichen-forming fungi. The repository contains genome alignments, functional annotations, orthogroup analyses, and phylogenies for four Xanthoria genomes and a broader set of 107 ascomycete genomes. The data was authored by Gulnara Tagirdzhanova and last updated on 2026-04-24.

Use Cases

• Comparative genomics analysis based on whole-genome alignments of four Xanthoria species.
• Phylogenetic study of tyrosine recombinase proteins based on provided sequence alignments and IQ-TREE phylogenies.
• Identification and characterization of Starship genetic elements using the output from the Starfish pipeline.
• Functional annotation analysis of fungal genomes using the provided gene and repeat annotations.

Strengths

• Includes data from 107 ascomycete genomes for comparative analysis.
• Provides multiple analysis outputs including genome alignments, annotations, and phylogenies.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect taxonomic bias inherent to the specific fungal genomes studied.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Gulnara Tagirdzhanova.

Collection Method

Data generated through genomic sequencing, alignment (MUMmer), annotation (Funannotate, EarlGrey), and phylogenetic analysis (Orthofinder, IQ-TREE, Starfish pipeline).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-24 11:21:06; freshness should be verified.