User talk:Castillocatalina/sandbox


 * Hi I just finished reading your article outline and here are some minor additions you can make to it if you want. First some minor points, you mention various aflatoxins produced by Aspergillus parasiticus and how they could affect humans and livestock. Would it be possible to go into the signs and symptoms of aflatoxin on an infected host? If so you could create another heading and briefly mention some of the signs, symptoms or possible long term health effects. Here is a site I found that talks about the signs and symptoms of the aflatoxins made (https://wiki.bugwood.org/Aspergillus_parasiticus). The site also mentions other points like diagnostic procedures that can be used; overall it could be used as a jumping off point for other points you might wish to cover (look at the references used). Also on the site linked above it also mentions that A. parasiticus is rarely found indoors, this is a minor point but you may want to use it under your "Habitat and ecology" heading. Furthermore, you stated that the fungus likes carbon and nitrogen in a 1:1 ratio in the soil. I found a paper that characterizes the major nitrogen regulatory gene for A. parasiticus (areA gene), you may want to look at it to add more genetic information about the fungus to your paper, since you discussed the MAT1-1 and MAT1-2 genes already. Here is the link to that paper (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10760588). Another topic you may wish to discuss is some of the ideas surrounding managing this fungus.  I found a paper that discusses using pesticides to control the spread of A. parasiticus and other fungi. However this is a more debatable point so look it over first. Here is the link (https://peerj.com/articles/1665.pdf). I hope this helps! --T.henderson (talk) 14:01, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi, I just read your draft and here are some additional things you may want to add. 1. you may want to expand on the disease topic. Which species are more vulnerable to this fungus? what tissues it has the greatest effect on? You can also talk about diagnostic procedures. Here is a link with some basic information on the subject: https://wiki.bugwood.org/Aspergillus_parasiticus 2. here is a link that talks more about the sexual state of the fungus: http://www.jstor.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/stable/20619175?pq-origsite=summon&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents 3. you mentioned in the beginning that "it has a strong impact on agriculture" so you may want to expand on that. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24224872 Good luck!Basmaz92 (talk) 17:42, 27 October 2017 (UTC)