Genetic differentiation of the Aspergillus section Flavi complex using AFLP fingerprints

Mycological Research

Volumn 107, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1427-1434

  Montiel, Dolores ^a   Dickinson, Matt J ^a   Lee, Heather A ^a   Dyer, Paul S ^a   Jeenes, David J ^b   Roberts, Ian N ^b   James, Stephen ^b   Fuller, Linda J ^b   Matsuchima, Kenichiro ^c   Archer, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c KIKKOMAN CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; ASPERGILLUS PARASITICUS; ASPERGILLUS SOJAE;

EID: 10744233927     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0953756203008797     Document Type: Article

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