User talk:Lorgecow/sandbox

Peer review - Mahreen

Hi Lorgecow, I enjoyed reading through the draft of your article! You've covered the main points in good depth, and I only have a few suggestions for your final article!

• Your lead section is short and succinct, and contains some relevant information! I suggest expanding it a little by adding information about the life cycle/reproduction of your fungus (asexual/sexual/both).
• Your History and Taxonomy section is very well written; you provide a clear and detailed background of the fungus and how it has been reclassified over time. I would recommend including a brief line about why the fungus was reclassified from the Actinospira genus to the Myxotrichum genus - you do mention this at the beginning, but perhaps move it to the end for the sake of chronological continuity.
• The book "Annals and Magazine of Natural History" by Prideaux, Babington and Gray (1862) has some information on pages 32-35 about the morphological differences described by Corda and Kunze, as well as some characteristics of the fungus that Corda failed to describe. This may help you expand the History and Taxonomy section, or may be useful for the Growth and Morphology section.
• Be careful to avoid linking wikipedia pages that do not actually exist - the pages for Myxotrichum murorum and Actinospira do not exist, so remove these links. Also be sure to italicize fungal species in your final article!
• Your growth and morphology section is also well detailed and written! Since there is a lot of information, it might be easier to read if this was organized into different sections, ie. Growth in lab culture, growth in natural environment, life cycle. Even if you choose not to put in specific sub-headers, just organizing the information this way will make it easier to read and help it flow better!
• This article also indicates that the growth of M. chartarum can be inhibited by vanillic acids, and suggests that the presence of polyphenols may induce a brown color pigment in the reaction: https://eurekamag.com/pdf/008/008363532.pdf
• Are there any enzymes or metabolites produced by this fungus?
• Again, be sure to remove hyperlinks to dead wiki pages (Malbranchea and Oidiodendron) and italicize genus names!
• The did a good job on the habitat and ecology section! You mention that the fungus decays paper; I found an article that investigates the microbial deterioration of tsunami-affected paper objects, which states that Myxotrichum species were isolates from light-red spotted paper and black spotted paper. This might be useful information to add to your article, especially if you find similar sources that investigate its implication on the paper industry/in paper mills: http://www.tobunken.go.jp/~ccr/pub/symp2012/symp2012_05.pdf
• This article states that this fungus was also isolated from bat feces in a Dominica Cave - are there any other articles that may suggest that this fungus derives nitrogen/phosphate/potassium (which bat guano is known to have high compositions of) from other sources? http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1827-806X.38.1.8

Overall, I think you did a great job on the draft of your article - it was well organized, clearly written and you have a lot of information on your fungus! I hope these suggestions help you in writing your final article! MahreenK (talk) 20:49, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Rodrigo's Peer Review

Hi,

I think your article in general is very well resourced, however your lead section needs additional information to provide a larger overview of your fungus. Maybe include facts such as general location, unique structures and parts of its discovery. This will a reader who may not have time to read the entire article, to actually receive some general introduction to the fungal species. You provided a great use of hyperlinks that I think will allow readers to get an adequate amount of referencing to mycology vocabulary that would enhance their overall understanding and education on Mycology as a whole. Your sections are balanced however, if you were to work on including another section on your fungal species, your article would be greatly enhanced as it would increase the scope of your article and provide a more broad array of information on the topic. In addition, there's a bit of formatting issue in your reference structure, perhaps you included a few 'ref bracket' for citations that might explain it. In all, great work on your outline, I think it will make for an informative article. Good luck on writing your article, I hope this was helpful! Rnoorani (talk) 04:07, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Some suggestions

• references and formatting look OK
• “within the Myxotrichaceae family” --> “within the family Myxotrichaceae”
• “that Myxotrichaceae fungi” --> “that fungi in the family Myxotrichaceae...”
• you shouldn’t link terms that are already linked once (e.g., cellulolytic, ascospores, etc)
• maybe explain some terms in more common language, e.g., dematiaceous hyphomycetes, reticuloperidial ascomycetes, uncinate, centrum, fusoid, truncation, etc.
• the word genii does not exist, plural of genus is genera
• I included some rewording for a few sentences in your sandbox
• looks good so far!

Medmyco (talk) 19:39, 17 November 2018 (UTC)