1. Aspergillus strain typing in the genomics era
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C.H.W. Klaassen and N. Osherov
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Genetics ,High resolution typing ,Aspergillus ,identification pathogenic aspergilli ,AFLP ,Strain typing ,Genomics ,Plant Science ,Articles ,Biology ,biology.organism_classification ,Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Genome ,coding tandem repeats ,high resolution typing ,Multilocus sequence typing ,Identification (biology) ,MLST - Abstract
Multiple reasons may justify a need for strain typing purposes, but the most common reason is to delineate the epidemiological relationships between isolates. The availability of whole genome sequences has greatly influenced our ability to develop highly targeted and efficient strain typing methods fur these purposes. Some strain typing methods may serve dual goals: not only can they be used to discriminate between multiple isolates of a certain species, they can also aid in the recognition, identification, description and validation process of a fungal species.
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