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THE utilization of purines by fungi as the sole source of nitrogen in their nutritive media has been reported in the literature only in a few cases1–3. No work concerning the utilization of xanthin by mould fungi appears to have been published.
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TAHA, E., SHARABASH, M. Utilization of Xanthin by Mould Fungi. Nature 177, 622–623 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177622a0
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