Aspergillus protuberus is a species of fungus in the genus Aspergillus. It is from the Versicolores section.[2][3] The species was first described in 1968.[1]
| Aspergillus protuberus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Eurotiomycetes |
| Order: | Eurotiales |
| Family: | Aspergillaceae |
| Genus: | Aspergillus |
| Species: | A. protuberus |
| Binomial name | |
| Aspergillus protuberus Muntañola-Cvetkovic (1968)[1] | |
Growth and morphology
editA. protuberus has been cultivated on both Czapek yeast extract agar (CYA) plates and Malt Extract Agar Oxoid® (MEAOX) plates. The growth morphology of the colonies can be seen in the pictures below.
Aspergillus protuberus growing on CYA plate
Aspergillus protuberus growing on MEAOX plate
References
edit- 1 2 Muntañola-Cvetkovic, M. 1968, Mikrobiologia 5: 119
- ↑ Jurjevic, Zeljko; Peterson, Stephen W.; Horn, Bruce W. (2012). "Aspergillus section Versicolores: nine new species and multilocus dNA sequence based phylogeny". IMA Fungus. 3 (1): 59–795. doi:10.5598/imafungus.2012.03.01.07. ISSN 2210-6340. PMC 3399103. PMID 23155501.
- ↑ Siqueira, J.P.Z.; Sutton, D.A.; Garcia, D.; Gené, J.; Thomson, P.; Wiederhold, N.; Guarro, J. (2016). "Species diversity of Aspergillus section Versicolores in clinical samples and antifungal susceptibility". Fungal Biology. 120: 1458–1467. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2016.02.006. PMID 27742099.