Biology:Aspergillus fructus

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Short description: Species of fungus

Aspergillus fructus
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Eurotiales
Family: Aspergillaceae
Genus: Aspergillus
Species:
A. fructus
Binomial name
Aspergillus fructus
Jurjevic, Peterson & Horn, 2012

Aspergillus fructus is a species of fungus in the genus Aspergillus.[1] It is from the Versicolores section.[1][2] The species was first described in 2012.[1]

Growth and morphology

A. fructus has been cultivated on both Czapek yeast extract agar (CYA) plates and Malt Extract Agar Oxoid® (MEAOX) plates. The growth morphology of the colonies can be seen in the pictures below.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Jurjevic, Zeljko; Peterson, Stephen W.; Horn, Bruce W. (2012). "Aspergillus section Versicolores: nine new species and multilocus dNA sequence based phylogeny". IMA Fungus 3 (1): 59–795. doi:10.5598/imafungus.2012.03.01.07. ISSN 2210-6340. PMID 23155501. 
  2. Siqueira, J.P.Z.; Sutton, D.A.; Garcia, D.; Gené, J.; Thomson, P.; Wiederhold, N.; Guarro, J. (2016). "Species diversity of Aspergillus section Versicolores in clinical samples and antifungal susceptibility". Fungal Biology 120 (11): 1458–1467. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2016.02.006. PMID 27742099. 

Further reading

  • "Molecular screening of 246 Portuguese Aspergillus isolates among different clinical and environmental sources". Medical Mycology 52 (5): 519–529. 2014. doi:10.1093/mmy/myu006. PMID 24847040. 
  • "Sterigmatocystin production by nine newly described Aspergillus species in section Versicolores grown on two different media". Mycotoxin Research 29 (3): 141–5. 2013. doi:10.1007/s12550-013-0160-4. PMID 23417508. 

Wikidata ☰ Q24977166 entry