Effect of sexual recombination on population diversity in aflatoxin production by Aspergillus flavus and evidence for cryptic heterokaryosis

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1453-1476

  Olarte, Rodrigo A ^a   Horn, Bruce W ^b   Dorner, Joe W ^b   Monacell, James T ^a   Singh, Rakhi ^a   Stone, Eric A ^a   Carbone, Ignazio ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PEANUT RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

array comparative genome hybridization; biological control; heritability; multilocus sequence typing; non Mendelian segregation; vegetative compatibility group

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; KARYOTYPING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

AFLATOXINS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENETIC VARIATION; KARYOTYPING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS;

EID: 84858019869     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05398.x     Document Type: Article

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