Talk:Keratinophyton durum/Archive 1

Archive 1

Anika's Peer Review

Lead Section:

• I notice that you wrote a sentence introducing your fungi. A step further is lengthening this section to summarize the content of your article. Try summarizing the entire article in a paragraph or two providing context and to briefly go over the topics you will be covering in the article

History and taxonomy:

• I like that this section is straight to the point. I also liked that you wrote the teleomorph and anamorph names
• If possible, it would be interesting to read about the distinct feature of the teleomorph and anamorph phase. Try bringing this into the morphology section.

Morphology:

• You do a good job in painting a picture on how your fungus looks.
• However, not much is said about the growth. A few questions to consider: What temperatures does it grow in? What are the differences between sexual and asexual growth? Can it be grown in cultures? Has there been studied down where keratin concentration has been manipulated affecting growth?
• Remember if you add information about growth to change the title to “Morphology and growth”

Habitat and ecology:

• You do a good job in highlight that the fungus grows in a certain soil pH.
• Try to further include other factors such as climate and elevation. Also, if there a certain type of animal or bird species where Keratinophyton durum is prominently found in?

CUIQINGY's peer review

Taxobox Synonyms:

• The year that Anixiopsis biplanata was identified by Guého & Vroey is 1986 according to mycoback and the paper The genus Aphanoascus by J. Cano and J. Guarro that cited in your reference.

History and taxonomy:

• I like that you stated the taxonomic confusion between genus Anixiopsis and Aphanoascus and the reason of the confusion.
• You mentioned that Keratinophyton durum was identified as Aphanoascus durus by Zukal in 1986. However, on mycobank, Ascocalvatia dura was the name identified in 1986. I also checked the paper you cited there but did not information about the history of taxonomy of Keratinophyton durum.
• In the last sentence, you typed an extra comma in the middle.

Morphology:

• I think you have covered all of the most important morphological characteristics in this section.
• I suggest to include some specific details. For example, in the article by Udagawa and Uchiyama, the authors described the colony morphology of Keratinophyton durum on both potato carrot agar (PCA) and phytone yeast extract agar (PYE), which I think can be used to expand this section.
• You may consider adding a wiki link to Scanning electron microscope and to the first ascomata instead of the second.

Habitat and ecology:

• It is great that you listed all the isolated areas and mentioned the potential human pathogenicity.
• I find another point you might want to add from the article by Udagawa and Uchiyama, which is no growth at 37 °C .
• You mentioned that Keratinophyton durum is keratinophilic in the lead section which can also be added to this section with brief explanations.

References:

• I find it to be really hard to find references for Keratinophyton durum, it is great that you are able to find so many of them!
• I noticed that you only used the paper A new species of Anixiopsis once and I am not really sure if it is a useful citation as I could not find the information you cited in the history and taxonomy section.

Additional suggestion:

• Udagawa and Uchiyama in their paper described the related speceis of Aphanoascus durus near the end of the first page. In the article by J. Cano and J. Guarro they describe species similar to Aphanoascus durus as well. As not much information can be found for this species, you may consider adding a new section for similar species and include information about their common characteristics and how to separate them, or just add those to history and taxonomy.

Generally, I think you have a great draft here and would be better if include more details. Hope my suggestions help. Good luck with your final article!CUIQINGY (talk) 23:02, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

johnvsjohn86's Peer Review

General comments

• I think you should include more sections into your wiki page. E.g. Physiology, pathogenicity, disease in human, treatment, or therapeutical use.
• Did not reach the 15-20 facts count

History and taxonomy

• Why was the name changed so many times? What were the motives and purpose behind each name change? And why was it finally classified as Keratinophyton durum?

Growth and morphology

• Should change the title to “Growth and morphology” to include more detail about the growth pattern instead of just the morphology
• Here is an article regarding more information on the morphology of your fungus (Sharma et al. 2017)
• I think the internal transcribed spacers information should be in a different section regarding the physiological qualities for your fungus

Habitat and ecology

• in the countries you’ve stated, it includes a wide range of climates and temperature, does this mean that the fungus is able to adapt to many different external environments?
• In here you’ve mentioned about potential pathogenicity towards human, I think you should dedicate an entire section to this topic
• Here is an article on Keratinophyton durum growing on turtle shells and more about the growth and morphology (Sutton et al.)

References

• (Sharma et al. 2017) http://www.fungalplanet.org/content/pdffiles/FungalPlanet604.pdf
• Sutton et al. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2594/1d88320dc1cee1625ca848b75d3d83096d14.pdf

Lucas Lisitsky's Peer Review

General Comments

• The literature concerning K. durum is difficult to parse given the number of names it has gone by over the years. I commend you on your efforts.
• Your taxonomy box lists the species' genus as Aphanoascus, but it is described elsewhere in your article as part of the Keratinophyton genus
  • Additionally, your synonyms would be best listed in chronological order to when each name was first proposed.
• Your 9th citation cites an entire journal volume. I would recommend citing the specific paper found in Mycotaxon vol 24.
• You may want to further elaborate on what this species looks like in culture, if possible

History and taxonomy

• It is good that you went into detail about the redesignations K. durum has underwent over the years.
  • You state that K. durum was first identified in 1986, but you also state in your taxonomy box that Zukal gave it the name Gymnoascus durus in 1890. You should start the section with the first name the species was given when it was discovered.
  • That aside, 1890 may be a typo in your taxonomy box.
• For clarity of writing it may be worth phrasing reclassifications in reference to who proposed them and when.
  • i.e. "Cano-Lira et al. first proposed to redesignate Anixiopsis biplanta as Aphanoascus durus in 1990, for reasons X and Y"
• A 2013 paper states that A. durum used to be a part of the Keratinophyton genus. Given that I don't have access to many of the recent articles concerning these genera, it may be worth discussing with Dr. Scott to clarify what the modern name of this species actually is.
• Your final sentence in this section requires some attention, however
  • The terms teleomorph and anamorph refer to different stages of a species life cycle. One species cannot be a teleomorph of another species.
  • I read through some of your references for this point. Deshmukh et al. 2014 quite clearly states that the teleomorph of A. durus was isolated alongside various Chrysoporium species. They are not of the same species.

Morphology

• It's great that you were able to describe the ascomata and ascospores with measurements and good detail.
  • It might be worth mentioning how the fungus appears in culture. Describe whether it is powdery or filamentous, for instance.
• While the length of the ITS is an interesting bit of info, I don't believe it belongs under the morphology heading.
  • Morphology and molecular genetics are important for denoting species, but are generally considered to be two separate things.

Habitat and Ecology

• I especially like your description on their growth in underwater sediments.
• The 2013 paper that I linked above mentions isolating Aphanoascus durus from the shell of a Galapagos Tortoise. That bit of info might be worth including.

Good work so far. This species appears to be a difficult one to research, so kudos to you!

Lucas.lisitsky (talk) 03:13, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Some suggestions

• references and style OK
• subject verb agreement “the soil pH range for this fungi is...”
• content appears pretty thorough, but you might gain a bit more content if you browse through [[[1]]] (if you haven’t already)
• well done so far!

Medmyco (talk) 19:28, 17 November 2018 (UTC)