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Morphology, phylogeny and cultural characteristics of Aspergillus rosettanus, a novel species in section Circumdati isolated from Wadi-El-Natron, Egypt

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

Subjects

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Tags

Biodiversity and Conservation
Fungi
Microbial Ecology

Abstract

Aspergillus species can colonize a wide range of substrates, and they are frequently found in a wide range of situations. More than 340 species make up the genus Aspergillus (family Aspergillaceae); some of these species are toxic to humans, animals, or plants and produce aflatoxins and ochratoxins. This research discovered a novel Aspergillus strain from the Aspergillus: section Circumdati in a soil sample taken from a region near Rosetta Lake at Wadi-El-Natron region, Egypt. It was originally identified as A. insulicola and deposited with the entry number MF075156 into the NCBI nucleotide database. Based on molecular analyses of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region and comparisons between the strain's macroscopic and microscopic characteristics with those of other species in section Circumdati, the strain was suggested as a novel species in the current research and given the name Aspergillus rosettanus. This novel species can be distinguished from the existing Aspergillus species in section Circumdati by having smaller conidial heads (45-65 µm), metulae (4-6 µm), and phialides (5-7 µm).

DOI

10.21608/mb.2024.318866.1169

Keywords

fungi, identification, morphological characters, Novel taxa, salt marshes

Authors

First Name

Osama

Last Name

Al-Bedak

MiddleName

A.M.

Affiliation

Assiut University Mycological Centre (AUMC), Assiut University, Assiut, 71511, Egypt., ERU Science & Innovation Center of Excellence, Egyptian Russian University, Badr city 11829, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

osamaalbedak@science.au.edu.eg

City

Assiut

Orcid

0000-0003-0465-619X

First Name

Rania

Last Name

Faysal

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, 71511, Egypt.

Email

rhomossy@aun.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

0000-0001-9254-3720

Volume

9

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

49870

Issue Date

2024-12-01

Receive Date

2024-09-06

Publish Date

2024-12-24

Page Start

67

Page End

76

Print ISSN

2357-0326

Online ISSN

2357-0334

Link

https://mb.journals.ekb.eg/article_399661.html

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https://mb.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=399661

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399,661

Type

Original Article

Type Code

502

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Microbial Biosystems

Publication Link

https://mb.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Morphology, phylogeny and cultural characteristics of Aspergillus rosettanus, a novel species in section Circumdati isolated from Wadi-El-Natron, Egypt

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Article

Created At

30 Dec 2024