High-quality genome resource of a basidiomycetous yeast, Moesziomyces antarcticus isolate RS1, isolated from rice seed.

ABSTRACT

Moesziomyces antarcticus (anamorph Pseudozyma antarctica) is a basidiomycetous yeast in the Ustilaginaceae family and is a core member of the rice seed microbiome. M. antarcticus RS1 was isolated from surface-sterilized rice seeds. This 18.287 Mb draft genome of M. antarcticus RS1 is comprised of a 60.8% GC content and 6,817 protein-coding genes.