Figure 1

Relative transcript levels of the hmgR genes of M. circinelloides during the cultivation period. MS12 was grown on YNB under continuous light at 25°C; transcript level of each gene measured at 96 h was taken as 1. The presented values are averages of three independent experiments; error bars indicate standard deviation. Relative transcript values followed by * significantly differed from the value taken as 1 according to the paired t-test (p0.01). Light micrographs show the morphology of Mucor circinelloides germinating spores and young hyphae at 4 and 8 h postinoculation, respectively; scale bars indicate 10 μm.