YaeRamKim
Course registration edit
Please send me an email (james.scott@utoronto.ca) to confirm your name, student number and wiki handle so that I can connect your wiki contributions to your course grade. Thanks! Medmyco (talk) 18:23, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
Assignment 2 edit
Good start. I noticed the fungus has also been reported as a causative agent in corneal infection (PMID 19724200). Also, its presence as an endophyte in St. John's Wort seems to contribute to the naphthodianthrone, hypericin. I didn't study this paper closely, but it might be an interesting story (doi:10.1021/np9002977). Medmyco (talk) 16:56, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
Article Feedback edit
For the actual article be sure to divide the text with heads and sub headings. You can make a heading by flanking text with equals symbols. For the taxonomy you should try adding an Taxobox. It's specialized wikipedia code that allows you to display species taxonomy information. Edit this post to see the code and you can copy and paste it into your article.
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Comments regarding article progression edit
You seem to have found most of the same papers that I have and there doesn't seem to be a great wealth of literature on this fungus to begin with.
· One article that can be used to better characterize your species might be this (DOI: 10.1007/BF02464086). Noteworthy points are the fact that the asci produced by this species sexual reproduction are cleistothecia. As well, the asexual form lacks conidiophores and produces aleurioconidia (I could only find a blog post (tinyurl.com/os27p7t) to define this properly but they are conidial structures that are typically released following the rupture or lysis of their supporting cells - I'm not sure if you could use that for a Wikipedia citation but you may find a better source if you turn over a couple stones).
· Regarding your first source, you might mention that the infection in an immunocompetent patient is noteworthy as the majority of cases of phaeohyphomycosis are in immunocompromised individuals, according to its Wikipedia page. This seems to suggest a higher virulence in your fungus than most.
· Lastly, your fifth source details aspects of the lower extremes of the fungus' growth, namely that below 15 degrees, ascomata cease to be produced and that below 12 degrees, fungal growth ceases completely. With this and the information you've already compiled, you could give a pretty comprehensive character of the fungus' thermal growth properties MediSyntax (talk) 00:53, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
Emodin link edit
Thanks Gloria, I had checked earlier and that's great. Medmyco (talk) 00:28, 7 December 2014 (UTC)