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Aleksandrina Patyshakuliyeva1, Mark Arentshorst2, Iris E Allijn1

  • 1Fungal Molecular Physiology, CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Biotechnology Letters
|February 17, 2016
PubMed
Abstract

Keywords:
Adaptive evolutionAspergillus nigerCelluloseNADPH oxidaseNoxR

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