La. Galanina et Ev. Agapova, UV-INDUCED ALTERATION IN THE RATIO OF INDIVIDUAL EICOSAPOLYENOIC ACIDS IN THE LIPID-COMPOSITION OF THE FUNGUS PYTHIUM, STRAIN-39, Microbiology, 63(2), 1994, pp. 105-108
Ultraviolet irradiation of a culture of the fungus Pythium, strain 39,
allowed; us to obtain a mutant that differed from the parent strain b
y a lower capacity for the formation of aerial mycelium on solid mediu
m and predominance of eicosapentaenoic acid in the composition of eico
sapolyenoic acids.