Aspergillus tabacinus
Aspergillus tabacinus is a species of fungus in the genus Aspergillus. It is from the Versicolores section.[2][3] The species was first described in 1934.[1]
| Aspergillus tabacinus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Eurotiomycetes |
| Order: | Eurotiales |
| Family: | Trichocomaceae |
| Genus: | Aspergillus |
| Species: | A. tabacinus |
| Binomial name | |
| Aspergillus tabacinus Nakazawa, Y. Takeda, Simo & A. Watanabe (1934)[1] | |
Growth and morphology
A. tabacinus 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.
Aspergillus tabacinus growing on CYA plate
Aspergillus tabacinus growing on MEAOX plate
References
- Nakazawa, Y. Takeda; Simo; Watanabe, A. (1934). J. agric. Chem. Soc. Japan. 10 (2): 177. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - 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. PMC 3399103. PMID 23155501.
- 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: 1458–1467. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2016.02.006. PMID 27742099.
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