The data set consisted of 62 filamentous fungal whole
genome sequences. Sixty one were endophytes including a
strain of Aspergillus terreus (NT165934.1), and a soil isolate of
Aspergillus terreus (AH007774.1) which were matched with the
available lovastatin gene cluster (AF141924.1 & AF141925.1).
All endophytic fungi utilized in this study showed much less
homology to lovastatin DNA sequences including an endophytic
fungi strain of Aspergillus terreus (Figure 1). On the other hand,
the soil isolate Aspergillus terreus (AH007774.1) showed perfect
homology to lovastatin DNA sequences with 100% identity with
lovastatin gene cluster sequence (55328/55328) (Table 1, Figure
1). These results are in perfect agreement with our previously
published results [4] on the lack of lovastatin production
by endophytic fungi and suggest that, the lack of lovastatin