Aspergillus brevipes

Aspergillus brevipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Eurotiomycetes
Order:	Eurotiales
Family:	Aspergillaceae
Genus:	Aspergillus
Species:	A. brevipes
Binomial name
Aspergillus brevipes G. Smith 1952 [1] [2]
Type strain
ATCC 16899, CBS 118.53, IFO 5821, IMI 51494, LSHBBB 263, LSHBSm 242, NRRL 2439, QM 1948 [3]
Varieties [4]
Aspergillus brevipes var. unilateralis

Aspergillus brevipes is an anamorph species of fungus in the genus Aspergillus . ^{[1] [3] [5]} It is from the Fumigati section. ^[6] It was first described in 1952. ^[2] It has been isolated from soil in Australia. ^[6] Aspergillus brevipes produces roquefortine C, meleagrin and viriditoxin. ^[7]

Growth and morphology

A. brevipes 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.

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  Aspergillus brevipes growing on CYA plate
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  Aspergillus brevipes growing on MEAOX plate

References

1. "Aspergillus brevipes". www.mycobank.org.
2. Smith, G. 1952. Aspergillus brevipes n. sp. Transactions of the British Mycological Society. 35(4):241-242
3. "Aspergillus brevipes". www.uniprot.org.
4. "Aspergillus brevipes Taxon Passport - StrainInfo". www.straininfo.net.
5. "Aspergillus brevipes Smith, anamorph ATCC ® 16899™". www.lgcstandards-atcc.org.
6. Samson, R.A.; Hong, S.; Peterson, S.W.; Frisvad, J.C.; Varga, J. (2007). "Polyphasic taxonomy of Aspergillus section Fumigati and its teleomorph Neosartorya". Studies in Mycology. 59: 147–203. doi:10.3114/sim.2007.59.14. PMC   2275200 . PMID   18490953.
7. Frederic, Lamoth; William J., Steinbach (2016). Advances in Aspergillus fumigatus pathobiology. Frontiers Media SA. ISBN   978-2-889-19789-7.

Further reading

• Samson, Robert A.; Pitt, John I., eds. (2000). Integration of modern taxonomic methods for penicillium and aspergillus classification. Amsterdam: Harwood Acad. Publ. ISBN   978-9-058-23159-8.
• Watanabe, Tsuneo (2010). Pictorial atlas of soil and seed fungi morphologies of cultured fungi and key to species (3rd ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis. ISBN   978-1-439-80420-9.
• Cole, Richard J. (1986). Modern Methods in the Analysis and Structural Elucidation of Mycotoxins. Oxford: Elsevier Science. ISBN   978-0-323-14853-5.
• Smith, John E.; Henderson, Rachel S., eds. (1991). Mycotoxins and animal foods. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. ISBN   978-0-849-34904-1.
• Schomburg, Dietmar; Schomburg, Ida, eds. (2003). Springer handbook of enzymes (2. ed.). Berlin [u.a.]: Springer. ISBN   978-3-540-00519-3.