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Cryptic speciation and recombination in the aflatoxin-producing fungus Aspergillus flavus.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 6 Jan 1998
Geiser D M, Pitt J I, Taylor J W
Abstract excerpt
Aspergillus flavus, like approximately one-third of ascomycete fungi, is thought to be cosmopolitan and clonal because it has uniform asexual morphology. A. flavus produces aflatoxin on nuts, grains, and cotton, and assumptions about its life history are being used to develop strategies for its biological control. We tested the assumptions of clonality and conspecificity in a sample of 31 Australian isolates by...
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