Sexual reproduction as the cause of heat resistance in the food spoilage fungus Byssochlamys spectabilis (anamorph Paecilomyces variotii)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1613-1619

  Houbraken, Jos ^a   Varga, János ^a   Rico Munoz, Emilia ^b   Johnson, Shawn ^b   Samson, Robert A ^a  

^a CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b BCN Research Laboratories Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD PRODUCTS; HEAT RESISTANCE; MICROBIOLOGY;

GENE SEQUENCES; PROGENY; SEXUAL CYCLE;

FUNGUS ATTACK;

ACTIN; BETA TUBULIN; CALMODULIN; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; RNA 5.8S;

DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD; FUNGUS; HEAT CAPACITY; HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RNA; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SPORE;

ARTICLE; ASCOSPORE; BYSSOCHIAMYS SPECTABILIS; FOOD SPOILAGE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HEAT TOLERANCE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAECILOMYCES; PAECILOMYCES VARIOTII; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ACTINS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CALMODULIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HEAT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAECILOMYCES; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, FUNGAL; TUBULIN;

BYSSOCHLAMYS; FUNGI; PAECILOMYCES VARIOTII; TALAROMYCES SPECTABILIS;

EID: 40549113946     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01761-07     Document Type: Article

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