Talk:Uncinocarpus reesii/Archive 1

Old European Journals

I want to cite E. Eidam's "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Gymnoascaceen" (1880), but finding scans of Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen is difficult, not to mention the fact that I can't speak German. My father can speak German, but he's a bit rusty so it might be a challenge.

Fun

I'm having legitimate fun writing this article. It's like I'm filling in the gaps of human knowledge by reading obscure papers and books. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucas.lisitsky (talk • contribs) 01:21, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Photos

Currah's 1985 paper has some beautiful phase contrast micrograph photos of Uncinocarpus reesii showing off the beautiful uncinate appendages. If anyone knows where to find good public domains of obscure fungi, let me know! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucas.lisitsky (talk • contribs) 04:04, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Almorenor's Peer Review

General Comments

• I liked your outline it gives good information and follows the outline headings as given by the professor
• I think you could also create your own headings/separate them, for example separating your Habitat and Pathogenicity sections to have one for each
• Since it is a Wikipedia article I also think you should hyperlink other species mentioned or technical terms to their corresponding Wikipedia pages so that people confused or interested in knowing more can easily access them.
• For your species box, I think you should add more subdivisions, like family, Onygenaceae
• I also think you should mention this is the type species for the genus somewhere, maybe history, or the introduction (see Sigler 1976 reference - there is other interesting information on this fungus in this paper, for example, they talk about the Malbranchea state [no idea what this means] and conidial state )

Growth and Morphology

• Like I said before, you should hyperlink a lot of the heading in this section, many people probably will not know what Gymnothecia is, linking it will make it easy to know what it is
• other than that very well done section

Physiology

• one fo your line was that you needed to find what they do grow on, a paper I listed below looks at its growth in three different mediums, could be useful

Habitat and pathogenicity

• You mentioned that it is closely related to C. immitis and C. posadasi but you should also mention that those two are pathogenic Coccidioides and U. reesii has been used in genome comparison to try and find a vaccine for Coccidioidomycosis (Sharpton et al. 2009)
• further on U. reesii use in biotechnology to combat Coccidioidomycosis, I found a paper that modified U. reesii to express C. immitis proteins, which could lead to better immunologic tests designs(Yu et al. 2005)

References

Sigler & G.F. Orr. Uncinocarpus reesii. Mycotaxon. 1976. 4(2): 461

• http://www.mykoweb.com/systematics/journals/Mycotaxon/Mycotaxon%20v004n2.pdf

Sharpton et al. Comparative genomic analyses of the human fungal pathogens Coccidioides and their relatives. Genome Res. 2009 Oct; 19(10): 1722–1731.

Yu JJ et al. Characterization of a Serodiagnostic Complement Fixation Antigen of Coccidioides posadasii Expressed in the Nonpathogenic Fungus Uncinocarpus reesii. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY. 2005; 43(11): 5462–5469

Other articles/references to consider looking at

https://genome.jgi.doe.gov/Uncre1/Uncre1.home.html

• has a good picture of a hyaline, talks about the relation to Coccidioides

http://www.microbiologyresearch.org/docserver/fulltext/micro/140/6/mic-140-6-1481.pdf?expires=1541194561&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=A705EE15544B4776D31812CED337431D

• talks about the phylogenetic relation to Coccidioides

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26777561_Comparative_genomic_analyses_of_the_human_fungal_pathogens_Coccidioides_and_their_relatives

• has a good graph/ talk about its growth in carbohydrates, amino acids, and peptides

Almorenor (talk) 22:54, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Rodrigo's Peer Review

Hey Lucas,

I think you did a thorough job of researching pertinent and informative facts for your fungal species. Here are some comments regarding the entirety of your article. I hope you find them useful!

I think your article has great flow and provides key pieces of information that will allow any reader that comes across to understand characteristics of this fungi. If you were to provide a lead section that takes central information from each of your sections to provide the reader with an overall sense of the species' structure, function and properties.

For referencing: try and keep your referencing consistent in terms of formatting. Ensure that you insert the brackets outside the period rather than in.

Growth and morphology: I liked the facts you provided, however make sure you include as many hyper links for topics that are specific to the field of Mycology as most readers won't understand them. I'm thinking of the terms: Heterothallic, anamorph, teleomorph, hyphae etc. I say this so that you don't make an assumption about who's reading your article (which will hopefully increase viewership)

Habitat and ecology: Great section and in particular, very balanced with growth and morphology. Your points provide a decent framework for there to be a layman's understanding on this part of your article.

Physiology: slightly low in quantity. I would suggest that if you can't find any relevant sources on this topic, that you discuss more in depth each of the sources you mentioned so that there is more weight to your section.

Overall: a good number of sources used, try adding to it by searching up more sources that would discuss its physiology more than anything else and I think your article will finish well-rounded and comprehensive. Great job with your flow and choice of material. Good luck!

Rnoorani (talk) 03:37, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Gymnoascus siglerae

The fungus was originally described in the genus Gymnoascus. Josef von Arx accepted the genus Gymnoascus, and described what he thought was a new species of Gymnoascus as G. siglerae, in honour of the Canadian mycologist Lynne Sigler from the University of Alberta. Independently, Lynne Sigler had described the genus Uncinocarpus based on U. reesii (perhaps in honour in honour of the American industrial mycologist, Elwyn Reese? I'd have to check Lynne's paper)(named in honour of Australian mycologist and cereal pathologist, Dr. Robert Rees). Subsequent examination of both von Arx and Sigler's taxa proved them both to be the same species, and Sigler's name took priority because it was described before the publication of von Arx's book (available in translation as The genera of fungi sporulating in pure culture -- I have it on my book cart). Medmyco (talk) 22:19, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Some suggestions

• references look OK
• try to convert some of the technical terms into more common language, e.g., oblate, punctate, uncinate, etc.
• remember to always put Latin names in italics, with the genus name capitalized and the species epithet decapitalized, also do not convert a Latin binomial into a possessive form
• ref tags should be placed immediately after text or punctuation with no space
• good job so far!

Medmyco (talk) 19:55, 17 November 2018 (UTC)