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Effect of sexual recombination on population diversity in aflatoxin production by Aspergillus flavus and evidence for cryptic heterokaryosis.
Molecular ecology - 1 Mar 2012
Olarte Rodrigo A, Horn Bruce W, Dorner Joe W, Monacell James T, Singh Rakhi, Stone Eric A, Carbone Ignazio
Abstract excerpt
Aspergillus flavus is the major producer of carcinogenic aflatoxins (AFs) in crops worldwide. Natural populations of A. flavus show tremendous variation in AF production, some of which can be attributed to environmental conditions, differential regulation of the AF biosynthetic pathway and deletions or loss-of-function mutations in the AF gene cluster. Understanding the evolutionary processes that generate...
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