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Evolution of Aspergillus oryzae before and after domestication inferred by large-scale comparative genomic analysis.
DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes - 1 Dec 2019
Watarai Naoki, Yamamoto Nozomi, Sawada Kazunori, Yamada Takuji
Abstract excerpt
Aspergillus oryzae is an industrially useful species, of which various strains have been identified; however, their genetic relationships remain unclear. A. oryzae was previously thought to be asexual and unable to undergo crossbreeding. However, recent studies revealed the sexual reproduction of Aspergillus flavus, a species closely related to A. oryzae. To investigate potential sexual reproduction in A. oryzae...
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