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Aspergillus parasiticus

Synonyms: Aspergillus flavus parasiticus; Aspergillus parasiticus var. globosus; Aspergillus toxicarius; Petromyces parasiticus

Wikipedia Abstract

Aspergillus parasiticus is a mold known to produce aflatoxins (a potent liver carcinogen), although strains of it that do not produce this carcinogen exist. It is closely related to but separable to (based on DNA sequencing and amplified fragment length polymorphism fingerprinting) Aspergillus flavus. A. parasiticus produces aflatoxins B1, B2, G1 and G2, unlike A. flavus which only produces B1.
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Providers

Parasite of 
Ostrinia nubilalis (European corn borer)[1]

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Citations

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♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0