Aspergillus tennesseensis

Aspergillus tennesseensis
Aspergillus tennesseensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Eurotiomycetes
Order:	Eurotiales
Family:	Aspergillaceae
Genus:	Aspergillus
Species:	A. tennesseensis
Binomial name
Aspergillus tennesseensis Jurjević, S.W. Peterson & B.W. Horn (2012) [1]

Aspergillus tennesseensis is a species of fungus in the genus Aspergillus . It is from the Versicolores section. ^{[1] [2]} The species was first described in 2012. ^[1]

Growth and morphology

A. tennesseensis has been cultivated on both Czapek yeast extract agar (CYA) plates and malt extract agar oxoid plates.

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  Aspergillus tennesseensis growing on CYA plate
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  Aspergillus tennesseensis growing on MEAOX plate

References

1. 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.
2. 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 (11): 1458–1467. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2016.02.006. PMID   27742099.

Further reading

• Jurjević Ž, Peterson SW, Solfrizzo M, Peraica M (2013). "Sterigmatocystin production by nine newly described Aspergillus species in section Versicolores grown on two different media". Mycotoxin Research. 29 (3): 141–5. doi:10.1007/s12550-013-0160-4. PMID   23417508. S2CID   14676310.
• Nováková, A.; Hubka, V.; Sáiz-Jiménez, C. (2014). "Microscopic fungi isolated from cave air and sediments in the Nerja Cave—preliminary results". In Saiz-Jimenez, C. (ed.). The Conservation of Subterranean Cultural Heritage. CRC Press. pp. 239–245. ISBN   978-1-315-73997-7.