User talk:Jaillean/sandbox

Hi Jaillean

I like the way that you have layed out your article! Your fungus sounds fascinating! I do have some constructive criticism to offer:

I suggest you hyperlink to the arthroconidia or provide us with some description of what it is. In addition, you mention temperature ranges twice in your article, perhaps mention it once under the growth and morphology subheading. It sounds like your fungus is Mesophilic, so perhaps add that into the description. What is it about the hosts that it likes? Do we know why it seems to like reptiles a lot? (snakes, iguanas etc…) and why the human? Is there something we share? If you could find answers to these questions I think they would make your article even better! I suggest you create the heading clinical manifestations and group all the symptoms and hosts under there There are some issues with which pieces of information are placed under what heading. Many things under History should be under growth and morphology.

Considering that this is an ascomycete, does it manifest as mould on plates? Does it produce any mycotoxins? Is it causing harm to the organisms its growing on? If not is it a mutualist or does it display commensalism?

I find it interesting that there was hemolysis detected! Does this mean that it may have been in the blood of the organisms it was isolated from? Is this a possible mechanism by which it may cause harm if It does injure its host? I think this could be interesting.

There is a book in the Gerstein stacks on mycosis, as well as an entire shelf on medical mycosis. I suggest you check it out! It could have some interesting information on your fungus!

I was wondering whether this fungus is only isolated from animals or if we can find it in the soil? Perhaps all these reptiles caught it from their habitats? Is there any mode of transmission between animals that could happen? Since this sounds like a dermatophyte, it would be interesting to know if it was zoophilic, Geophilic or anthropophilic. Perhaps the case in the human was caught from a pet iguana or snake or something of the sort? That would be something interesting to look into!

In addition, there are a few spelling errors, for example under growth and morphology: the sexual stage is referred to as a Telemorph, when it should be spelled: Teleomorph. I also suggest you use the hyperlinks a lot more. They do make the readers lives a lot easier as well as your own because you won’t have to explain every term that you introduce. Lastly, adding pictures is always a good way to give your page some character! I suggest asking the professors for some good image sources!

Otherwise, your article is looking good! I think if you could find the information about the hosts and its habitat and ecology that could add some key pieces of information to your article!

Looking forward to seeing the final product!

Halatamim (talk) 21:02, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Hi Jaillean,

Here are some further suggestions for your fungus entry:

I would suggest having an intro sentence with general information just to introduce the reader to your fungus. Maybe you can include information on how the fungus infects reptiles and humans, as a reader that would make me interested to read further! Also, I agree that providing more hyperlinks would be helpful because if someone is not sure what a word means, especially if it's repeated, hyper-links can help! I also found a couple of grammar mistakes that if fixed, would make the article flow more easily. Also, you mention that the fungus was previously classified under Chrysosporium, it would be interesting to know why? What similarities does the fungus have to other fungi in this classification? Then, you mentioned that the fungus was found to be different from Chrysosporium, how different? Morphologically? Physiologically? Ecologically?

In growth and morphology, you stated that the colonies were "crean," do you mean green? I would also elaborate further on the fungus's growth and morphology, such as when you state that arthroconidia develop under certain conditions, which conditions? Also, it says teleomorphs are not easily formed which sounds a bit confusing, rewording the sentence might make it more clear, for example: the fungus rarely enters the teleomorphic stage. I also found two statements on optimal temperatures with different numbers, it would be better to only have one under physiology.

You state that the fungus infects humans, maybe you can include a heading under ecology and elaborate further on how it infects humans, symptoms it causes, and other relevant information. I would also suggest doing the same with its infection of reptiles, it would be clearer if this information was given under its own heading because you find out that it infects humans and reptiles from gathering information here and there. You also mention that it can cause dermatomycosis, can you elaborate further? What type of dermatomycosis? Is it zoophilic, anthropophilic, or geophilic?

Also, the fact that it was found in the USA and Spain is interesting because those two countries are not on the same continent. Are they found in habitats with similar climates or conditions in the two countries? Did the fungus appear in one country from the other via immigration? It would be helpful if you provided more info on why those two specific locations. Lastly, some information is missing citations, it might be on purpose since this is a draft but I just wanted to bring it up. I would also suggest having more sources, maybe looking through databases, google scholar, but here are some suggested articles and links:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27010762

http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.1004367

https://www.uamh.ca/Research.html. This link has some general information and mentions that the fungus does not spread from reptiles to humans, so maybe it's not zoophilic?

Hope this information is helpful!

Hasa20171 (talk) 21:49, 28 October 2016 (UTC)