Fig. 6

Late time point cultures are starving and induce secondary metabolism. a Transcript levels of genes encoding ergosterol biosynthesis enzymes, b enrichment of selected GO-term in late time points, c transcript levels of genes encoding starvation-induced fungal cell wall acting hydrolases, d protein level of corresponding fungal cell wall acting hydrolases in the culture filtrates, e transcript levels of genes encoding a sporulation specific transcriptional regulator and a protein involved in spore pigmentation and f transcript levels of genes encoding the putative PKS of a sporulation specific secondary metabolite cluster (left), and the NRPS of the gliotoxin cluster (right), with 2 and 7 respectively of the other cluster genes sharing this profile. Error bars represent standard errors