Fungal secondary metabolism — from biochemistry to genomics

@article{Keller2005FungalSM,  title={Fungal secondary metabolism — from biochemistry to genomics},  author={Nancy P. Keller and Geoffrey Turner and Joan W Bennett},  journal={Nature Reviews Microbiology},  year={2005},  volume={3},  pages={937-947},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:23537608}}
Questions are addressed, including which evolutionary pressures led to gene clustering, why closely related species produce different profiles of secondary metabolites, and whether fungal genomics will accelerate the discovery of new pharmacologically active natural products.

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