Genome-wide identification and comparative in-silico characterization of β-galactosidase (GH-35) in ascomycetes and its role in germ tube development of Aspergillus fumigatus via RNA-seq analysis

• Danish Ilyas Baig,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Atta-Ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7251-5359

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• Zeeshan Zafar,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Software

  Affiliation Atta-Ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Haris Ahmed Khan,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Atta-Ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5093-9476

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• Amna Younus,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institutes of Health (NIH), Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Muhammad Faraz Bhatti

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mfbhatti@asab.nust.edu.pk

  Affiliation Atta-Ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1792-1004

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