Invasive Aspergillosis by Aspergillus flavus: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Antifungal Resistance, and Management

SM Rudramurthy, RA Paul, A Chakrabarti, JW Mouton… - Journal of Fungi, 2019 - mdpi.com
Aspergillus flavus is the second most common etiological agent of invasive aspergillosis (IA)
after A. fumigatus. However, most literature describes IA in relation to A. fumigatus or …

[HTML][HTML] Fungal species boundaries in the genomics era

DR Matute, VE Sepúlveda - Fungal Genetics and Biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Genomic data has opened new possibilities to understand how organisms change over
time, and could enable the discovery of previously undescribed species. Although taxonomy …

Fifty Aureobasidium pullulans genomes reveal a recombining polyextremotolerant generalist

C Gostinčar, M Turk, J Zajc… - Environmental …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The black yeast Aureobasidium pullulans is a textbook example of a generalistic and
ubiquitous fungus thriving in a wide variety of environments. To investigate whether A …

Evolution of Aspergillus oryzae before and after domestication inferred by large-scale comparative genomic analysis

N Watarai, N Yamamoto, K Sawada, T Yamada - DNA Research, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Aspergillus oryzae is an industrially useful species, of which various strains have been
identified; however, their genetic relationships remain unclear. A. oryzae was previously …

Biocontrol Strains Differentially Shift the Genetic Structure of Indigenous Soil Populations of Aspergillus flavus

MH Lewis, I Carbone, JM Luis, GA Payne… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Biocontrol using non-aflatoxigenic strains of Aspergillus flavus has the greatest potential to
mitigate aflatoxin contamination in agricultural produce. However, factors that influence the …

Trophic control of cryptic coralline algal diversity

KR Hind, S Starko, JM Burt… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding how trophic dynamics drive variation in biodiversity is essential for predicting
the outcomes of trophic downgrading across the world's ecosystems. However, assessing …

Two-dimensional layered nanomaterial-based electrochemical biosensors for detecting microbial toxins

Z Li, X Li, M Jian, GS Geleta, Z Wang - Toxins, 2019 - mdpi.com
Toxin detection is an important issue in numerous fields, such as agriculture/food safety,
environmental monitoring, and homeland security. During the past two decades …

Secondary metabolite dereplication and phylogenetic analysis identify various emerging mycotoxins and reveal the high intra-species diversity in Aspergillus flavus

V Uka, GG Moore, N Arroyo-Manzanares… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Aspergillus flavus is one of the most important mycotoxigenic species from the genus
Aspergillus, due to its ability to synthesize the potent hepatocarcinogen, aflatoxin B1 …

Global scientific trends on aflatoxin research during 1998–2017: a bibliometric and visualized study

SH Zyoud - Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, 2019 - Springer
Background Aflatoxins are fungal metabolites associated with contaminated food products.
Intake of aflatoxin-contaminated food results in serious health hazards and even death …

The Talaromyces pinophilus species complex

SW Peterson, Ž Jurjević - Fungal biology, 2019 - Elsevier
A sample of isolates from Talaromyces pinophilus (55 isolates) and closely related species
(76 isolates) was sequenced at four loci, the data were analyzed using maximum likelihood …