Evolution of the toxins muscarine and psilocybin in a family of mushroom-forming fungi.
Kosentka P, Sprague SL, Ryberg M, Gartz J, May AL, Campagna SR, Matheny PB.
Kosentka P, et al.
PLoS One. 2013 May 23;8(5):e64646. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064646. Print 2013.
PLoS One. 2013.
PMID: 23717644
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Mushroom-forming fungi produce a wide array of toxic alkaloids. However, evolutionary analyses aimed at exploring the evolution of muscarine, a toxin that stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system, and psilocybin, a hallucinogen, have never been performed …
Mushroom-forming fungi produce a wide array of toxic alkaloids. However, evolutionary analyses aimed at exploring the evolution of mu …