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SUBMITTER: Geiser DM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC18233 | biostudies-literature | 1998 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Geiser D M DM Pitt J I JI Taylor J W JW
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19980101 1
Aspergillus flavus, like approximately one-third of ascomycete fungi, is thought to be cosmopolitan and clonal because it has uniform asexual morphology. A. flavus produces aflatoxin on nuts, grains, and cotton, and assumptions about its life history are being used to develop strategies for its biological control. We tested the assumptions of clonality and conspecificity in a sample of 31 Australian isolates by assaying restriction site polymorphisms from 11 protein encoding genes and DNA sequen ...[more]