| Species/Subspecies:
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Aspergillus parasiticus |
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| Categories:
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Animal pathogen; human pathogen; plant pathogen; toxic for animals; toxic for humans |
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| Etymology:
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Genus name: to scatter.
Species epithet: parasitic. |
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| Significance: | [Important]
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| Geographic distribution:
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Tropical and subtropical regions of Australia, India, Latin America, South Africa and the United States. |
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| Taxonomy:
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| Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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| Ascomycota | Eurotiomycetes | Eurotiales | Trichocomaceae | Aspergillus |
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Macromorphology (smell):
 | Forms large fluffy colonies, which are green in the middle and white or light green towards the edge. |
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Micromorphology:
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| Reproduction: | |
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| Spec. Char.:
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| Reservoir:
| Soil |
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| Disease/effect:
| | Hosts/substrate | Disease/effect | Clinical picture or result |
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| Animals (including humans) | Aspergillosis | Fever, coughing, chest pain, bleeding from the lungs. | | Animals (cattle, dogs, pigs, poultry, trout etc.) | Mycotoxicosis or aflatoxicosis | Decreased milk/egg production as well as hepatotoxicity, immunosuppression, mutagenesis, teratogenesis and carcinogenesis. | | Humans | Mycotoxicosis or aflatoxicosis | Delayed development of children. Serious liver disease and hepatic carcinoma in adults. | | Corn, cotton seed fig and peanut | Aspergillus rot and Aspergillus ear rot | Green-colored pulp (fig) or yellow-brown mold on seeds and nuts. |
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| Virulence Factors:
| Aflatoxin B 1, B2, G1 and G2. Aflatoxin B 1 is considered to be the most potent of all naturally occurring carcinogens. |
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| Genome Sequence:
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| ACC-No GenBank | Strain/Isolate | # of chrom | Size (Mbp) |
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| GCA_012897115 | NRRL 2999 | 8 | 37.0 |
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| Mitochondrial DNA sequence:
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| ACC-No GenBank | Strain/Isolate | Number of BP |
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| NC_041445 | | 29 141 |
Cirkulärt DNA.
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| 18S rRNA Seq:
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| ACC-No GenBank | Strain/Isolate | Number of NT |
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| D63699 | NFRI1153 | 1733 |
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| ITS regions:
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| ACC-No GenBank | Strain/Isolate | Number of NT | Genes |
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| NR_151784 | CBS 260.67TM | 529 | ITS 1, 5.8S rRNA, ITS 2, 28S rRNA |
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| Taxonomy/phylogeny:
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| Updated: | 2022-06-22 |
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