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Sexual Reproduction in Aspergillus flavus Sclerotia: Acquisition of Novel Alleles from Soil Populations and Uniparental Mitochondrial Inheritance

Aspergillus flavus colonizes agricultural commodities worldwide and contaminates them with carcinogenic aflatoxins. The high genetic diversity of A. flavus populations is largely due to sexual reproduction characterized by the formation of ascospore-bearing ascocarps embedded within sclerotia. A. fl...

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Autores principales: Horn, Bruce W., Gell, Richard M., Singh, Rakhi, Sorensen, Ronald B., Carbone, Ignazio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4701395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26731416
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146169