Talk:Chaetomium subspirale/Archive 1

Archive 1

Peer Review by Joanne (lorgecow)

• Leading section: this portion of your article is missing. A resource you can use is MOS:LEAD. It outlines the formatting and language you should use.

• History and taxonomy: This resource has the full phylogeny of your species: http://www.mycobank.org/Biolomics.aspx?Table=Mycobank&MycoBankNr_=167796. If you cannot find more information for this section, then I would include it in the leading section and completely omit this section.

• Growth: I think this section can be merged with morphology and renamed as “Growth and morphology”.

• Morphology: I like that you compared your fungus to similar species and I think that this could be a subheading under morphology called “Close relatives” or something similar. This would differentiate the information about your species from the comparison, making this section easier to read.
  • When mentioning different species of the same genus, you can abbreviate the genus, for example you can say C. subspirale and the reader will understand the specific fungus you are talking about since it was mentioned previously.
  • You misspelled perithecia, ascomata and ascospore here.

• Habitat: This species also appears in cultures found in England (probably not relevant), and on dung found in Holland and South America (Chivers, 1912).
  • This species was found on antelope dung in Kenya. (http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/b82-159)

• Chaetomium subspirale used to find new inhibitors for TNF-a promoter: Your subheading for this section is too long, but could be simplified, while including more in-depth information for the body of this section. I suggest changing it to “Biochemistry” so the title also encompasses the fact that C. subspirale affects the NFκB pathway. To expand on this section, you could talk about the effect of inhibiting both these pathways and find a source stating the medical uses of these findings.
  • Here is some more information about the biochemistry of oxaspirodion: “[…] oxaspirodion demonstrated an ability to inhibit the phosphorylation of ERK1/2 (extracellular signal-regulated kinases) and the activation of NF-κB“. (https://www.spandidos-publications.com/or/19/2/299)
  • You mispelled oxaspirodion.

• References: Some references have quotations around the article title, while other do not. Please be consistent. There is no citation for reference 6, so I cannot review the information you cited.
  • I found lots of information about your fungus from this article here: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jgam1955/6/4/6_4_223/_pdf/-char/ja.

Lorgecow (talk) 02:40, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Rose's (username: usucrose) peer review

• Add mycobank external link for easy access,something like this:

{{taxobar | from = Q10447713}}

• The Q number (Q10447713) is your species (Chaetomium subspirale) code that I found from the wikidata web, so just copy and paste and probably you'll get that integrated into your article in the correct way, but feel free to try out the external links so that they are redirecting to the correct species. Just include this at the end of your article.

• missing leading paragraph, need to add it in because people are quite impatient to read through the whole thing, most of them browse the search result and read it from google search page, and your wikipedia will use the leading paragraph as a preview.

• slight editing of taxobox is needed, at the species column (abbreviation):

 | species = '''''C. subspirale'''''

• I looked into your fungus on mycobank and i found this http://www.mycobank.org/BioloMICS.aspx?TableKey=14682616000000067&Rec=564499&Fields=All

• Humicola subspiralis a new binomial name suggested by XW Wang 2018 (which is planned to publish in 2019). Wang et al. conducted a phylogenetic analysis upon the fungus and also commented on the mislabeling of the appearance of your fungus, im not sure should you include this in your article, but it is quite a good article to read to supplement your article. Link to his paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166061618300319

• Growth section: Czapek medium is a medium that can be hyperlinked, so if readers are interested they can look into it.

• Morphology section comment:

• I don't have the textbook or resource in hand, but just a friendly reminder: don't copy exact wording. I will prefer using simple words, e.g. replacing the word verrucose with small warts-like elevation (also because my vocabulary sucks therefore I just want to read something simple, but that's only my opinion, you can ignore if you want)

• Don't need to repetitively use the full name of the genus, you can use abbreviation since everyone understands which genus you are talking about at this point.

• When you are working on your final version of your article, I'll suggest that you simplify the section on how to distinguish your fungus with other close Chaetomium relative fungi, it can be simplified into one point, or just list 1 or 2 as example, 5 might be too much, and are not really directly related to the article.

• Can't find Chaetomium spharale anywhere on the web, maybe typo? Please confirm

• Chaetomium pluchellum might also be a typo, I think you mean Chaetomium pulchellum

• Chaetomium subspiral and Chaetomium semispiral are typos, I think you mean Chaetomium subspirale and Chaetomium semispirale

• Habitat section: according to A H Chivers (in this paper/book Preliminary Diagnoses of New Species of Chaetomium), he stated that the spices is found in various soil (his wording is "substrata") and dung sample, maybe you can include that in this section. I am also quite curious if the species count as Coprophilous fungi since they are always found in dung samples, if you have time please look it up for me. Thanks.

• "Chaetomium subspirale used to find new inhibitors for TNF-a promoter" section:

• first I suggest that you can shorten the heading of this section to "medical significance" or "cytotoxin" or "mycotoxin"
• Secondly, spiro compound, TNF-a, and NF-kappaB can be external linked to another wikipedia articles, provide more information for people who are interested
• Lastly I'll suggest that you can summarize some conclusions made by these papers to indicate some further research or medical significant for the metabolite, which makes the article a little bit more interesting.

Overall, there are a lot of information you can add to your article to make it an interesting one, if you need more resources there are a lot of textbooks you can request from the prof and libraries. I am doing technically the same genus of fungus as well, feel free to ask me (although I'm also struggling like you as well haha). Good luck! Usucrose (talk) 22:08, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Ningyu's peer review (xuningyu)

Hello Simran, Here are my suggestions, i hope it can help you:

• The internal link for some word is required, which helps people understand when they read.
• Don't forget to put a lead paragraph for your fungi.
• For the scientific classification, try to elaborate it. I have found more information in this website:http://www.mycobank.org/Biolomics.aspx?Table=Mycobank&MycoBankNr_=167796
• Try to add the synonyms for Chaetomium subspirale, since it may have some used names and with it used name you may find more research papers. This website will be helpful: http://www.speciesfungorum.org/GSD/GSDspecies.asp?RecordID=167796 .

History and taxonomy

• More details will be better, like where did they found it or isolated it, and why they name it Chaetomium subspirale(is this because of the similar morphology with other fungi?).
• This fungi was named Chaetomium pulchellum, mention it in this section will be great. Here is the image of the book that mentioned it, you can take a look: http://www.librifungorum.org/Image.asp?ItemID=41&ImageFileName=IXF3-212.jpg

Growth

• You did not talk about its best or suitable growth temperature, i have saw that is 24°C in this website: https://www.atcc.org/products/all/56715.aspx#culturemethod.

Morphology

• This part is very informative, try to put every point together with logic.
• I cant found any imformation about Chaetomium spharale, double check to see if there is a typo.
• I have found another website has the Morphology of this fungi, it may helpful: http://www.bcrc.firdi.org.tw/fungi/fungal_detail.jsp?id=FU201505261131

Habitat

• Great research in finding its habitat. :)
• i have found a book that says that it also grow in various substrata, here is the website: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20022812?seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents .(This website also gives information about Morphology)

Chaetomium subspirale used to find new inhibitors for TNF-a promoter

• I like this part, it is very interesting information about this fungi, but the name of this section may not appropriate. A shorten name or name like uses may be better. (You can make you own name for this section, but plz be short)
• If possible, add more informations about why this is important, and further possible uses or applications in medical.

References

• More references will be good to state your fungi, try to find more paper or book make a strong scientific basis.
• The #6 reference is blank, maybe you have made mistake when you cite it, please double check and correct it.

Some suggestions

• references look OK
• I added a synonym from MycoBank
• try not to use a Latin binomial in possessive form (e.g., Chaetomium subspirale’s barrel shaped petithecia...)
• try to put scientific jargon into common language, e.g., verrucose, stipitate, rhizoids
• watch spelling, e.g., scomata, acogonial, ascocspore, petithecia
• you might be able to locate more content from [[[1]]]

Medmyco (talk) 19:43, 17 November 2018 (UTC)