title: The sexual state of Aspergillus parasiticus.
abstract: The sexual state of Aspergillus parasiticus, a potent aflatoxin-producing fungus within section Flavi, is described. The production of nonostiolate ascocarps surrounded by a separate peridium within the stroma places the teleomorph in genus Petromyces. Petromyces parasiticus differs from P. alliaceus by its larger ascospores with finely tuberculate ornamentation. The anamorphic Aspergillus states of the two species differ in conidial head color and microscopic characters.
authors.affiliation: National Peanut Research Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Dawson, Georgia 39842, USA. bruce.horn@ars.usda.gov
authors.forename: Bruce W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Horn
authors.forename: Jorge H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Ramirez-Prado
authors.forename: Ignazio
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Carbone
mesh_terms: D001230:Aspergillus / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D012098:Reproduction / Q000502:physiology; D013045:Species Specificity