Aspergillus luchuensis, an Industrially Important Black Aspergillus in East Asia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Hong, Seung Beom ^a   Lee, Mina ^a   Kim, Dae Ho ^a   Varga, Janos ^b   Frisvad, Jens C ^c   Perrone, Giancarlo ^d   Gomi, Katsuya ^e   Yamada, Osamu ^f   Machida, Masayuki ^g,h   Houbraken, Jos ⁱ   Samson, Robert A ⁱ  

^a National Institute of Agricultural Science   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES OF FOOD PRODUCTION   (Italy)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF BREWING   (Japan)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^h KANAZAWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

ⁱ CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; CALMODULIN; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS ACIDUS; ASPERGILLUS KAWACHII; ASPERGILLUS LUCHUENSIS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ASPERGILLUS TUBINGENSIS; ASPERGILLUS WELWITSCHIAE; FERMENTATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL STRUCTURES; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; MOULD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TAXON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ASPERGILLUS; FAR EAST; FERMENTATION; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPORES, FUNGAL;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS AWAMORI; ASPERGILLUS KAWACHII; ASPERGILLUS LUCHUENSIS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ASPERGILLUS TUBINGENSIS;

EID: 84878380768     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063769     Document Type: Article

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