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Aspergillus qinqixianii

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Species of fungus

Aspergillus qinqixianii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Eurotiales
Family: Aspergillaceae
Genus: Aspergillus
Species: A. qinqixianii
Binomial name
Aspergillus qinqixianii
Y. Horie, Abliz & R.Y. Li (2000)
Type strain
CBS 128788 = IFM 55020 = CMB-FA-866 = DTO 098-H6
Synonyms

Emericella qinqixianii

Aspergillus qinqixianii is a species of fungus in the genus Aspergillus which has been isolated from desert soil from the Taklimakan desert in China. It is from the Nidulantes section. Aspergillus qinqixianii produces asteltoxin, asperthecin, emericellin, 2-ω-hydroxyemodin, shamixanthones, terrein, curvularin and dehydrocurvularin.

Growth and morphology

A. qinqixianii 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 qinqixianii growing on CYA plate Aspergillus qinqixianii growing on CYA plate
  • Aspergillus qinqixianii growing on MEAOX plate Aspergillus qinqixianii growing on MEAOX plate

References

  1. ^ "Aspergillus qinqixianii". www.mycobank.org.
  2. ^ Chen, A.J.; Frisvad, J.C.; Sun, B.D.; Varga, J.; Kocsubé, S.; Dijksterhuis, J.; Kim, D.H.; Hong, S.-B.; Houbraken, J.; Samson, R.A. (June 2016). "Aspergillus section Nidulantes (formerly Emericella): Polyphasic taxonomy, chemistry and biology". Studies in Mycology. 84: 1–118. doi:10.1016/j.simyco.2016.10.001. PMC 5198626. PMID 28050053.
  3. ^ "Aspergillus qinqixianii". www.uniprot.org.
  4. Horie, Yoshikazu; Abliz, Paride; Hui, Yan; Fukiharu, Toshimitsu; Nishimura, Kazuko; Li, Dong Mei; Li, Ruoyu (January 2000). "Emericella qinqixianii, a new species from desert soil in China". Mycoscience. 41 (2): 183–187. doi:10.1007/BF02464329. S2CID 84784059.
  5. Chen, A.J.; Frisvad, J.C.; Sun, B.D.; Varga, S.; Kocsubé, S.; Dijksterhuis, J.; Kim, D.H.; Hong, S.-B.; Houbraken, J.; Samson, R.A. (2016). "Aspergillus section Nidulantes (formerly Emericella): Polyphasic taxonomy, chemistry and biology". Studies in Mycology. 84: 1–118. doi:10.1016/j.simyco.2016.10.001. PMC 5198626. PMID 28050053.

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