User talk:Naq Nau/Arachniotus ruber/Brooke S Connolly Peer Review

General info Whose work are you reviewing? Naq Nau Link to draft you're reviewing:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Naq_Nau/sandbox

Lead:

Hello! I see that you haven't started a lead paragraph about your assigned fungus yet! I recommend researching some very basic facts about your fungus, and including them in the intro paragraph. This will just tell the reader what your article will be about and the categories of information that is known about the specific fungus. For example, you might want to state a sentence with the species name, Arachniotus ruber, and its natural habitat, animal dung (in which you will go into more detail in further parts of the article. This could also be a good place to mention the different names the fungus once had. The first paragraph is basically meant to elude to the entire article, and give a brief description of the species. Good job on the TaxBox! If you wanted to add some more information, you could add the subclass 'Eurotiomycetidae' and the family 'Gymnoascaceae'. I pulled this information from Mycobank on your fungus.

History and taxonomy: Great job. You really encompassed the history of naming with your fungus and found relevant dates to include in the article. I appreciate that you found this information from multiple different sources.

Growth and morphology: Great facts! It might be a good idea to link some of these important concepts/other species to different wikipedia articles in case anyone is interested in learning about them. Interestingly enough, I couldn't find any information on Eurotium rubric, maybe this is a spelling error. I would guess that you meant Eurotium rubrum. Regardless, I would link these to their own wiki pages (if they exist), such as https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoarachniotus_trochleosporus. This can also be done throughout the article, e.g. for Schröter in the History heading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Schr%C3%B6ter. I would also breifly go over the spelling of some of the names!

Physiology: I am not clear on what the first point is trying to get across. Is the fungus able to make this molecule? What does this molecule do?

Habitat and ecology: Great. Did these studies provide insight on which species of animal dung the fungus can grow on? Great job finding multiple sources with this information. I recommend checking out some of the general or medical mycology textbooks from Gerstein library if you have not already! They might be able to provide some finer details about the organism that aren't easily found online.

Preparation and cultivation: The formatting here needs to be changed for the subheading. The C in cultivation should be lowercase. You can probably also include the fact listed in the physiology section about ribosomal RNA sequencing for distinguishing!

Usage: The potential usage for this fungus sounds very interesting. I would be interested if you went into some further details about these experiments.

I've attached a link to an article that provides some details on temperature and growth on the fungus. I believe it is your 7th source. I feel as though some of these minor details and facts can be included to make your article more full! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0007153664800346

Content: The content all comes across neutral and I believe you've done a good job at maintaining the tone of the article! Your information has been backed up by reliable information however I do recommend doing some more research and including all facts possible about A. ruber. It will make your article a bit longer and provide the public with even more information. Your grammar thus far has been great and there was only that one formatting correction. Good job! One more piece of advice I have might be to switch around the headings so 'Habitat' is closer to the beginning of the article. This is because the facts are very broad (e.g. this fungus is most commonly found in central Europe) and will help the article to flow! Some fo the other topics are much more specified and would sound best at the end of the article!

Overall, you've done a great job with organizing all your topics and placing facts under the correct categories!

Brooke S Connolly (talk) 18:34, 1 November 2019 (UTC)Brooke S Connolly