sentences:  It is generally assumed that a better understanding of filamentous fungal growth will greatly stimulate the development of novel fungicides.Its use as a model organism is particularly promising because of the high level of gene order conservation (synteny) between the genomes of and the yeast .The complete sequencing and annotation of the entire genome, as published in 2004, was initiated when a significant degree of gene synteny was observed in preliminary studies in comparison to the genome of budding yeast, .