Aflatoxigenicity in Aspergillus: Molecular genetics, phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary implications

Mycopathologia

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 167-177

  Cary, Jeffrey W ^a   Ehrlich, Kenneth C ^a  

^a SOUTHERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aflatoxin; Aspergillus flavus; Aspergillus ochraceoroseus; Gene cluster; Secondary metabolite; Sterigmatocystin

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; STERIGMATOCYSTIN;

ASPERGILLUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; INTRON; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AFLATOXINS; ASPERGILLUS; EVOLUTION; GENES, FUNGAL; INTRONS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; STERIGMATOCYSTIN;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS OCHRACEOROSEUS; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE;

EID: 33748297559     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-006-0051-8     Document Type: Review

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