Biology:Aspergillus austroafricanus
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Short description: Species of fungus
| Aspergillus austroafricanus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Eurotiomycetes |
| Order: | Eurotiales |
| Family: | Aspergillaceae |
| Genus: | Aspergillus |
| Species: | A. austroafricanus
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| Binomial name | |
| Aspergillus austroafricanus Jurjević, S.W. Peterson & B.W. Horn (2012)[1]
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Aspergillus austroafricanus is a species of fungus in the genus Aspergillus. It is from the Versicolores section.[1] The species was first described in 2012.[1] It has been isolated in South Africa .[1]
Growth and morphology
A. austroafricanus 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 austroafricanus growing on CYA plate
Aspergillus austroafricanus growing on MEAOX plate
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Jurhevic, Zeljko; Peterson, Stephen W.; Horn, Bruce W. (2012). "Aspergillus section Versicolores: nine new species and multilocus DNA sequence based phylogeny". IMA Fungus 3 (1): 59–79. doi:10.5598/imafungus.2012.03.01.07. PMID 23155501.
Further reading
- "Metabolites from the Fungal Endophyte Aspergillus austroafricanus in Axenic Culture and in Fungal–Bacterial Mixed Cultures". Journal of Natural Products 79 (4): 914–922. 2016. doi:10.1021/acs.jnatprod.5b00975. PMID 27070198.
- "Genetic diversity of Aspergillus species isolated from onychomycosis and Aspergillus hongkongensis sp. nov., with implications to antifungal susceptibility testing". Diagn. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 84 (2): 125–34. 2016. doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2015.10.027. PMID 26658315.
Wikidata ☰ Q24977155 entry
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