User talk:Ronald Vuong/sandbox

Hi there! I'm in your HMB36 class, I went over your sandbox and saw that you have main points covered. Luckly, I have the same Genus as mine, but there are still some big differences between them. I wold like to recommend you a book by Ed.by Samson, R.A.; Flannigan, B.; Flannigan, M.E.; Verhoeff, A.P.; Adan, O.C.G.; Hoekstra, E.S. (1994). Health implications of fungi in indoor environments. Amsterdam [u.a.]: Elsevier. ISBN 0-444-81997-5. I've used this book for my own search and also this book has your species as well. It talks about their isolation and where they are mostly found. Also this book gives you alternative names like P.cyclopium and P.viridicatum, goes over their production of metabolites. On page 570-571 it gives you a good discription of habitat and a bit of history and physiological aspects that could be added to your Wikipedia. Futhermore, this book contains pictures of how they look like, which is a good thing. If you would like more information about your specie you could refer to MycoBank search. I would recommend you elaborating more on which fruits they live in, what kind of alcohols they produce, trying to include if they could cause any diseases to plants and animals or even humans. You could also expand on or their origin, and how related is your specie to others- as if they have any similarities or differences. You don't need to be specific, but a brief expantion on this topic. You can improve your sandbox by describing your specie physiological appearances first and then moving to environmental factors that improve their growth moving to what chemicals they secrete, and then expanding briefly on their role that they play in their surroundings. You also could write more on drugs and how they act in the organism. I would recommend sectioning information obtained from the sources under subheadings. Subheadings can include: history and taxonomy, growth, morphology, ecology, physiology, interactions with organisms, epidemiology, clinical experiments etc. I hope I somehow helped you expanding your Wikipedia page and hope hearing from you. Hope this helps!--Vbmyco (talk) 05:14, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Very nice work!
I see you have many points in habitat and ecology section. I am currently doing a fungus with same genus and I found the following reference book very helpful for you:

Hocking, John I. Pitt, Ailsa D. (1985). Fungi and food spoilage (3rd ed. ed.). Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 0387922075.

This is the reference I used for my own research. From page 229 - 231 contains information of your fungus. I hope this helps, have a good time taking this class. --Tonyxu114 (talk) 19:35, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Suggested References/ Article Organization
Hello Ronald! I'm a classmate in your HMB436 class this semester and hope you are enjoying the class! After taking a look at your article outline, I have a few suggestions that might be useful in improving the content and organization of your article. Here's a useful book that you could try taking a look at in order to get more information regarding nomenclature history concerning your species: Samson, Robert A; Pitt, John I (2000). Integration of Modern Taxonomic Methods for Penicillium and Aspergillus Classification. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Harwood Acad. Publ. ISBN 9058231593. You could include this information in the general introduction of your article or if you find lots of interesting information, you could consider dedicating an entire section of your article to this topic, titling it "History." You may also want to add more specific information regarding your species growth on laboratory media along with your species ecology and physiology. You may find this book particularly useful for such purposes: Pitt, John I.; Hocking, Alisa D. (1985). Fungi and food spoilage (3rd ed). Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 9780387922072. Additionally, under "Methods For Isolation, Enumeration And Identification," your species is specifically mentioned in the context of the ELISA assay so it might be something worth including in a section called "Laboratory Detection." This book is easily accessible online through the University of Toronto library. Lastly, there's also a page on CMI specific to your species, concerning similar topics. Here's the URL when accessed through the University of Toronto network: http://www.cabi.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/dfb/abstract/20056401101. I would recommend sectioning information obtained from these sources under subheadings like "Growth and Morphology," "Physiology," "Ecology," and so forth, in order to organize the content and make it easier to read. If you need help with organizing your article, check out this page: Microsporum gypseum. I found this article very useful in providing a template for article organization. Hope this helps and keep up the good work! Aem1009 (talk) 00:18, 31 October 2015 (UTC)