User talk:Vting/sandbox

Hi I read through your page. So far, it looks great. However, I have some suggestions for you!

I really liked the history part of your page, especially the meaning of the name is really interesting and I think it will help people to remember better about your organism. Also, nice photo! But please make sure that it is from non-problematic source so that you can keep it! I think you should put some interesting/ remarkable cases of your organism with respect to disease. I see that you went through many books to gather decent information so now how about go search on "pubmed" or "web of science" to find some recent researches done on unique/ interesting aspects of your organism. If you find enough information, try to put them under new heading. In that way I think your page will look even better! Good job!

Hi there,

I looked through your sandbox about your species and here are some suggestions for improving your final articles in the following.

For Taxobox:
 * Please search on Wikipedia with specific key words before you linked the page, such as “Nannfeldt” under “synonyms”.

For History and taxonomy section:
 * You have a great deal of information about your species in this section but please pay attention about the use of upper case and lower case when you are processing your final article.

For Growth and morphology section:
 * For the 3rd point (ie. “hard and …”), please give more details about why your species prefers or chooses to grow on this kind of material instead of others.
 * You have a lot of details here but please pay attention on structuring while you are processing your final article. And I think you do not need to include the fancy scientific descriptive words here, since our audience may not have the same science background as us.

For Physiology section:
 * I think the 1st point (ie. “grows on Sabouraud’s agar, …”) should be included in Growth and morphology section instead since it is talking about the media that your species could live on. And please describe the differences if the appearance or growth rate would change due to different agar material.
 * I think the 6th to 14th points (ie. start from “asexually reproduce by …” to “typically produces…”) should also be included in Growth and morphology section instead because these are discussing about the morphology of your species. And please also include a brief explanation of why there are 2 different forms of conidia. Are there anything that make your species switch to different conidia form? Or does the form of conidium indicate different strain of your species? Hope these questions give you some inspirations when you are processing your final article.
 * Please take a look at Lecture 2 Physiology and Fungal ecology and you will have a better idea of what should be included in this section. For example, the optimal temperature range for growth (psychrophilic, mesophilic or thermophilic), aerobic or anaerobic respiration and if your species if your species produces any enzymes.

For Habitat and ecology section:
 * Please give more details about the chromoblastomycosis, for example, if the biological mechanism of your species involves and how it works. You can read through some case reports available online.
 * I found that your species had been found in nature in Asia before together with another fungus. Please take a look at this primary paper (though you might not be able to include this as one of the references, you can still get a better idea to do more research about the habitats of your species): Iwatsu, T., Miyaji, M., & Okamoto, S. (1981). Isolation of phialophora verrucosa and fonsecaea pedrosoi from nature in japan. Mycopathologia, 75(3), 149-158. doi:10.1007/BF00482809

Hope these help. Good luck!!!! Cyril.li (talk) 16:42, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello!
 * Well done so far! Just a few minute details I thought would be helpful.
 * First, under the first section, perhaps repeating what the taxonomy of your fungi includes. I know it may be redundant considering it's already on the right sidebar but it wouldn't hurt to put it in again and tie it all together in a sentence or two.
 * Second, under Growth and morphology, maybe you can add more to your second and third points, such that you can explain what type of Petri dish they were in and what type of environment allowed them to turn those colours and explain what exactly has a hard and leathery texture, respectively. Though I see that your first two points in Physiology seem like that speaks about what I mentioned so if that's the case, maybe put them together in a sentence under Growth and morphology.
 * Lastly, I noticed that under your History and Taxonomy section, you briefly mentioned chromoblastomycosis. Perhaps, under the Physiology or Habitat and Ecology sections, you can present a clinical case where your fungi has implications on this fungal infection. Here is a paper that you may want to use regarding this point: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26066414, it is "Chromoblastomycosis caused by Phialophora verrucosa on the hand" by Takeuchi et al. (2015).


 * Good luck with it! I hope this helps! || Rachelleisidro (talk) 02:18, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Access to PDFs of Recommended Papers

 * Hi you commented on my talk page (T.henderson, fungus: Moniliella actoabutens) and gave me two links to papers you thought would be useful for me to use (Links: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02097491?LI=true &  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2621.1968.tb01436.x/epdf). However the links you gave me send me to a paywall in order to get the full articles. I have looked and cannot seem to find the full papers. If you somehow have access to the full PDFs of each article, would it be possible to send me a link to them/email them to me? Thank you for your assistance. --T.henderson (talk) 21:59, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi I read through your page. So far, it looks great. However, I have some suggestions for you!

I really liked the history part of your page, especially the meaning of the name is really interesting and I think it will help people to remember better about your organism. Also, nice photo! But please make sure that it is from non-problematic source so that you can keep it! I think you should put some interesting/ remarkable cases of your organism with respect to disease. I see that you went through many books to gather decent information so now how about go search on "pubmed" or "web of science" to find some recent researches done on unique/ interesting aspects of your organism. If you find enough information, try to put them under new heading. In that way I think your page will look even better! Good job!

Hi there,

I looked through your sandbox about your species and here are some suggestions for improving your final articles in the following.

For Taxobox:
 * Please search on Wikipedia with specific key words before you linked the page, such as “Nannfeldt” under “synonyms”.

For History and taxonomy section:
 * You have a great deal of information about your species in this section but please pay attention about the use of upper case and lower case when you are processing your final article.

For Growth and morphology section:
 * For the 3rd point (ie. “hard and …”), please give more details about why your species prefers or chooses to grow on this kind of material instead of others.
 * You have a lot of details here but please pay attention on structuring while you are processing your final article. And I think you do not need to include the fancy scientific descriptive words here, since our audience may not have the same science background as us.

For Physiology section:
 * I think the 1st point (ie. “grows on Sabouraud’s agar, …”) should be included in Growth and morphology section instead since it is talking about the media that your species could live on. And please describe the differences if the appearance or growth rate would change due to different agar material.
 * I think the 6th to 14th points (ie. start from “asexually reproduce by …” to “typically produces…”) should also be included in Growth and morphology section instead because these are discussing about the morphology of your species. And please also include a brief explanation of why there are 2 different forms of conidia. Are there anything that make your species switch to different conidia form? Or does the form of conidium indicate different strain of your species? Hope these questions give you some inspirations when you are processing your final article.
 * Please take a look at Lecture 2 Physiology and Fungal ecology and you will have a better idea of what should be included in this section. For example, the optimal temperature range for growth (psychrophilic, mesophilic or thermophilic), aerobic or anaerobic respiration and if your species if your species produces any enzymes.

For Habitat and ecology section:
 * Please give more details about the chromoblastomycosis, for example, if the biological mechanism of your species involves and how it works. You can read through some case reports available online.
 * I found that your species had been found in nature in Asia before together with another fungus. Please take a look at this primary paper (though you might not be able to include this as one of the references, you can still get a better idea to do more research about the habitats of your species): Iwatsu, T., Miyaji, M., & Okamoto, S. (1981). Isolation of phialophora verrucosa and fonsecaea pedrosoi from nature in japan. Mycopathologia, 75(3), 149-158. doi:10.1007/BF00482809

Hope these help. Good luck!!!! Cyril.li (talk) 16:42, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello!
 * Well done so far! Just a few minute details I thought would be helpful.
 * First, under the first section, perhaps repeating what the taxonomy of your fungi includes. I know it may be redundant considering it's already on the right sidebar but it wouldn't hurt to put it in again and tie it all together in a sentence or two.
 * Second, under Growth and morphology, maybe you can add more to your second and third points, such that you can explain what type of Petri dish they were in and what type of environment allowed them to turn those colours and explain what exactly has a hard and leathery texture, respectively. Though I see that your first two points in Physiology seem like that speaks about what I mentioned so if that's the case, maybe put them together in a sentence under Growth and morphology.
 * Lastly, I noticed that under your History and Taxonomy section, you briefly mentioned chromoblastomycosis. Perhaps, under the Physiology or Habitat and Ecology sections, you can present a clinical case where your fungi has implications on this fungal infection. Here is a paper that you may want to use regarding this point: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26066414, it is "Chromoblastomycosis caused by Phialophora verrucosa on the hand" by Takeuchi et al. (2015).


 * Good luck with it! I hope this helps! || Rachelleisidro (talk) 02:18, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Persia's Peer Review
Hi! It looks great so far! I just have a couple suggestions. You have some information on its pathology in the History section, but since your fungi does cause disease in humans, this is a very relevant topic. Therefore, I think it should have it's own section. You can have a Disease or Pathogenicity section where you discuss these characteristics. Here are some links with more info to help you fill out this part of your article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0507.1995.tb00052.x/full https://www.nature.com/bmt/journal/v20/n9/abs/1700969a.html http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0163445398936660 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0190962295903933 Also, the organization of each section could be improved. For example, if you wanted to include the disease info in the History section, this should go at the end. Therefore the flow of the story about the fungus's discovery is uninterrupted. Further, you may also want to add other wiki links. Some of the more scientific jargon may not be accessible for the general public, so the more links you can provide the better. This will allow them to fully understand the content of your article. Also, if you wanted to add some more points to the other sections of your article, I have found some resources. The info you have is useful but slightly repetitive, so it may be good to add some other points as well. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4684-4982-2_11 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/b08-057#.WfOvI7G-KRs https://academic.oup.com/mmy/article-abstract/10/3/266/1624430 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00482809?LI=true https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bert_Gerrits_van_den_Ende/publication/286965186_Taxonomy_of_the_Phialophora_verrucosa_complex_with_the_description_of_two_new_species/links/5677d4c008ae0ad265c7ef3c.pdf Finally, since it is a fungi pathogenic to humans, you may want to add some information about treatment/management of these conditions. Here are some sources for that: http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/9649717 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738081X06000691 http://bjo.bmj.com/content/59/7/372.short Good luck! Persiamariah (talk) 22:15, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Hey Vting!
 * I read through your article as it seems like you have a solid foundation for your article. I wanted to make some suggestions that might help you to advance your future article.
 * First in the History and taxonomy section it seems like you have a good working foundation where lots of background information is provided to start out your article. A minor suggestion is that you can possibly provide a link to the Verrucous Tuberculosis to its wiki page: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosector%27s_wart).
 * For the Growth and morphology section, lots of valuable information is listed, but I will also suggest to provide links to what might seem to be the more common vocabulary in mycology such as mycelia, septa, or spore. I think when these are added it will be more convenient for the common reader to go through your article. Also make sure you’re providing the links in the order that the word is coming up, such as phialides and conidia, which have links on them later on in the section.
 * In general physiology is a broad topic, so within your physiology section there is a larger variety of info provided. Reading through all of the points you’ve made it seems like lots of the information is provided about the reproduction of the species. If you provide this information in a subheading under the physiology section I think it will provide your article with more flow and organization.
 * Finally for the Habitat and ecology section, it seems that lots of the information you have provided is about the species’ affiliation with human disease. I think your article will have some more depth if you were to elaborate on the diseases and the affect the species has on human health, seeing that the human body is the main habitat.
 * Here are some sources you can use to start that part of your research:


 * http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/3461651
 * http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0507.1995.tb00052.x/full
 * Also I found a couple articles about the species found as isolates in the natural environment, which might help you to broaden the information you give as its habitat:


 * https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00482809?LI=true
 * https://academic.oup.com/mmy/article-abstract/10/3/266/1624430
 * I hope some of the suggestions I gave you were of help and I wish you good luck!--Kim.glor (talk) 22:54, 27 October 2017 (UTC)