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Evolution of the Toxins Muscarine and Psilocybin in a Family of Mushroom-Forming Fungi

Mushroom-forming fungi produce a wide array of toxic alkaloids. However, evolutionary analyses aimed at exploring the evolution of muscarine, a toxin that stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system, and psilocybin, a hallucinogen, have never been performed. The known taxonomic distribution of mus...

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Autores principales: Kosentka, Pawel, Sprague, Sarah L., Ryberg, Martin, Gartz, Jochen, May, Amanda L., Campagna, Shawn R., Matheny, P. Brandon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3662758/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23717644
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064646