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Peer Review by Irena Djordjevic
Hi, I read through your article and ran the name of your fungi through some searches. I found an article regarding the isolation of Chaetomium, including C. perlucidum, which has some information that might be useful for your article. I've linked it below. It has some information about the morphology of mature colonies, which I noticed you didn't have in your article, as well as some additional information about the ascospores. I also found an article discussing the ability of Chaetomium species to inhabit cellulose substrates, and that this allows some of the species to destroy books and textiles. Though the article didn't mention the implication of C. perlucidum, it might be an interesting point to mention and look into further. It would be good to look into this further as it may allow you to find the habitat in which your fungi lives and thrives. I did another search to look for the habitat of your fungi and found an article that mentions that it was found in soil samples I was also able to find a book that mentioned your fungi as inhabiting cellulose-rich substrates, and that most Chaetomium are mentioned as being soil saprotrophes. This book seems to have a lot of information about Chaetomium so it might prove good for you to look into it! Try to see if there is any more information regarding synonymous or old taxonomy. For Physiology: what is the optimal pH for your fungi? Is there any information about its osmotolerance? Are you able to find the optimal pH for growth? What nutrients does it use for growth? What is its carbon source of choice? What is its nutrient source of choice? How does the fungi disperse and replicate? You mentioned that the anamorph stage is absent, what does the teleomorph stage look like and how does the fungi reproduce in its sexual stage? Does your fungi have hyphae? If yes, what are the characteristics of the hyphae? For the Habitat and ecology: make sure you look at the sources I mentioned above and look into the habitat that your fungi is found in. From what I read it seems to be found in soil and in other cellulose rich environments such as decaying food. My fungi is also a soil fungi and I was able to find a lot of information about it in the Compendium of Soil Fungi, so if it turns out that your fungi is indeed a soil fungi, make sure to give that book a browse as you may find some valuable information, especially regarding its physiology. For pathogenicity: look for some more general information regarding C. perlucidum infections, if any exists. I was able to find some articles mentioning Chaetomium infection in general, so it may be interesting to look into these. Overall, great start to your article. You should look for some additional information to complete sections lacking depth. Try to look into books further, as I noticed that most, if not all, of your references are journal articles or webpages. Books may provide you with general information about your fungi that is extremely important but may have been omitted in journal articles. Great start, keep it up! Irena Djordjevic (talk) 02:11, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Peer review
Hi Xuji. I have a few suggestions but you do not have to accept all.

Pathogenicity: Many species in genus Chaetomium cause Cerebral Phaeohyphomycosis (http://jcm.asm.org/content/27/10/2226.abstract) and they seem to be indoor fungi (http://www.moldbacteriaconsulting.com/fungi/chaetomium-species-as-indoor.html) (http://mold-awareness.org/chaetomium). You might want to add the related fungi that cause the same disease since Chaetomium atrobrunneum, C. strumarium, and C. perlucidum cause a systemic disease (Med Mycol (2011) 49 (7): 724-733. doi: 10.3109/13693786.2011.572299). Moreover, the fungal disease-causing mechanism could be interesting (but you do not really have to add the mechanism because it is not usual disease and it is going to be somewhat hard to find the information.)

History: When it was first found, where was it (soil, animal, plant)? I know it is hard to find the original article because it was first found in 1956 (so outdated). Actually, the reference #1 Sergeeva (1956). "Chaetomium perlucidum" was published by Сергеева К.С. (I guess it's Russian, or Ukraine name.) Here is a URL: http://volimo.ru/books/item/f00/s00/z0000003/st010.shtml (This is not the paper published 1956; so you don't have to read all) They (including Сергеева) examined the Western Siberia soils. Figure 2.2 is the drawing of the C. perlucidum and You might want to take a look at when you describe the morphology. This paper also tells us that Genus Chaetomium is cellulose destructing fungi living in soil. Yes, it is soil-fungus.

Growth: You wrote the optimal growth temperature is 35 Celsius degree. I am sorry but that is not really true. According to UAMH7775 This fungus is thermo-tolerant. Among the approximately 80 species in the genus "Chaetomium", most grow well at 25~35°C, pathogenic species can grow at 35~40°C, and species that can affect on CNS can grow 40~50°C (reference #11). You may want to put this information in the Pathogenicity sub-section, if not in Growth section.

Habitats: I propose that it would be more helpful to add the conditions (temperature, humidity, etc.) and places (soil, skin, dust, etc.), rather than just listing the regions in which C.perlucidum can be found. For this fungus, you may also want to cite UAMH5615 when you say it was found in Spain.

I am looking for reading a final article for Chaetomium perlucidum. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Soonyoulkwon (talk • contribs) 03:30, 28 October 2016 (UTC)