Abokorab

Hi Dr Abokorab, I came across your page while in search of Aspergillus unguis. I noticed you have been assigned to write about this and want to wish you best of luck.

--Sakinaka3 (talk) 02:52, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

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Resource on food spoilage

Hi Abokorab,

I found an e-book through the UT library that talks about fungi & food spoilage - the genus Aspergillus is mentioned. It's called "Advances in Food Mycology", Chapter is called Food-Borne Fungi in Fruit and Cereals and Their Production of Mycotoxins. Hope this is helpful!

Clrlpn1 (talk) 19:11, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

HMB436 Commentary

Hello Abokorab, since your fungus is a soil fungus, I would like to point out a reference that you may find helpful: Domsch, K.H.; Gams, Walter; Andersen, Traute-Heidi (1980). Compendium of soil fungi (2nd ed.). If your fungus is found in this book, it contains a lot of information about ecology, physiology, and habitat which could make your subsections more content rich. I myself have have been assigned a soil fungus and found this resource extremely useful. I also highly recommend looking at this book as well: Onions, A.H.S.; Allsopp, D.; Eggins, H.O.W. 1981. Smith's introduction to industrial mycology (7th ed.). It can give you some more information regarding growth and morphology of your fungus. Since it appears that your fungus does cause disease in humans (according to Mycobank: http://www.mycobank.org/name/Aspergillus%20unguis) I think that it is important that you consider adding a subsection describing what is known about the effects Aspergillus unguis has in humans (maybe name it something like "Pathogenesis in Humans"). Just from a quick literature search I found that Aspergillus unguis is associated with childhood asthma . You could research further into this topic and add some clinical examples if you can find any. Good-luck! MichaelaSo87 (talk) 17:50, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Hey Abokorab, it seems like you got a solid basis on the growth and morphology of your fungi, but need some more breadth on other topics. A suggestion for history/taxonomy would be to follow down the linages of your present sources to find articles that date farther and farther down the past. You might not be able to find much information (I’m doing A.tubingensis and I’m having trouble with this too), but the introductions should provide slightly more context to what you have so far. Looking at your reference list, you have many articles that date before the year 2000, so you might have done this already. If so, another strategy you can try would be to look at current taxonomic references and books – they might be able to provide some perspective. In terms of epidemiology, you can try using pubmed to search for prospects. Pubmed is more biomedical centered, so its worth a shot. Some information about its genetics could be supportive as well. Book references, and the sources that they cite could lead to more depth about their ecology and mechanisms. Try this book: Aspergillus: Molecular Biology and Genomics Masayuki Machida, Katsuya Gomi Horizon Scientific Press, 2010 - it dives not just on molecular biology, but also about ecology, metabolism, and functional biology as well. Try mixing up key words ( eg A.unguis and guisinol, A.ungis and nail) in your search engine to generate more variability in search results. Overall, you’re on a good start, but keep digging! Trace backwards through papers into the past, but don’t forget to provide a good mix of recent articles about your fungi. Good luck on writing! Dorochoi (talk) 02:53, 31 October 2015 (UTC)