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--Boundary_(ID_EyhWS2m148LN6P9c+vP1uw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT The answer below came from Fred Archibald, who teaches microbiology in Acadia Univ. Biology Dept. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. Begin forwarded message: > From: James Hirtle <jrhbirder@hotmail.com> > Date: March 15, 2008 2:17:04 PM ADT > To: Naturens Naturens <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> > Subject: [NatureNS] Fungi > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > Hi all: > > A thank you to Jim Wolford for obtaining an answer to my fungi. > For those interested in such, it cannot be identified exactly other > than under a microscope, but there are two possibilities as below. > This is the reponse back to both Jim and me. > > It is both a fungus and a mold, as all molds are fungi. The odd > colonial shapes are probably determined by what it is growing on, > ie the points at which individual pickles touch or nearly touch the > surface. On an appropriate homogeneous medium the colonies would be > circular. The blue-green color is caused by carotenoid and related > pigments in the mature spores (there to protect spore DNA from > visible and UV light-mediated damage). This blue-green color is > very common in ascomycete fungal spores. The most likely genera are > Aspergillus and Penicillium. A quick look through a microscope at > 50-100x will tell you, as Aspergillus and Penicillium have distinct > and distinctly different spore arrangements on the mature sporophore. > > James R. Hirtle > Dublin Shore > > > > Is your lingo strong enough to ace these new word puzzles from Live > Search Games? Click here to test your vocab! --Boundary_(ID_EyhWS2m148LN6P9c+vP1uw) Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><BODY style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">The answer below came from Fred = Archibald, who teaches microbiology in Acadia Univ. Biology Dept.=A0 = Cheers from Jim in Wolfville.<BR><DIV><BR><DIV>Begin forwarded = message:</DIV><BR class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE = type=3D"cite"><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><B>From: </B></FONT><FONT face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">James Hirtle <<A = href=3D"mailto:jrhbirder@hotmail.com">jrhbirder@hotmail.com</A>></FONT>= </DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><B>Date: </B></FONT><FONT face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">March 15, 2008 2:17:04 PM = ADT</FONT></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><B>To: </B></FONT><FONT face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Naturens=A0Naturens <<A = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</A>></F= ONT></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><B>Subject: </B></FONT><FONT face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><B>[NatureNS] = Fungi</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><B>Reply-To: </B></FONT><FONT face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><A = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</A></FONT>= </DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; = font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><FONT = size=3D"3"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: = Tahoma; ">Hi all:</SPAN></FONT><BR style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; = font-size: 13.3333px; "><FONT size=3D"3"></FONT><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: = 13.3333px; ">=A0</SPAN><BR style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: = 13.3333px; "><FONT size=3D"3"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; ">A thank you to Jim Wolford for obtaining = an answer to my fungi.=A0 For those interested in such, it cannot be = identified exactly other than under a microscope, but there are two = possibilities as below.=A0 This is the reponse back to both Jim and = me.</SPAN></FONT><BR style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; = "><FONT size=3D"3"></FONT><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; ">=A0</SPAN><BR = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><FONT = size=3D"3"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: = Tahoma; ">It is both a fungus and a mold, as all molds are fungi. The = odd colonial shapes are probably determined by what it is growing on, ie = the points at which individual pickles touch or nearly touch the = surface. On an appropriate homogeneous medium the colonies would be = circular. The blue-green color is caused by carotenoid and related = pigments in the mature spores (there to protect spore DNA from visible = and UV light-mediated damage). This blue-green color is very common in = ascomycete fungal spores. The most likely genera are </SPAN><I = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-style: italic; "><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-style: = italic; ">Aspergillus</SPAN></I><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; "> and </SPAN><I style=3D"font-family: = Tahoma; font-style: italic; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-style: italic; = ">Penicillium</SPAN></I><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; ">. A quick look through a microscope at = 50-100x will tell you, as </SPAN><I style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; = font-style: italic; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-style: italic; = ">Aspergillus</SPAN></I><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; "> and </SPAN><I style=3D"font-family: = Tahoma; font-style: italic; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-style: italic; = ">Penicillium</SPAN></I><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; "> have distinct and distinctly different = spore arrangements on the mature sporophore.</SPAN></FONT><BR = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><FONT = size=3D"3"></FONT><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: = Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; ">=A0</SPAN><BR style=3D"font-family: = Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><FONT size=3D"3"><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; ">James R. = Hirtle</SPAN></FONT><BR style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: = 13.3333px; "><FONT size=3D"3"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; ">Dublin Shore</SPAN></FONT><BR = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><BR = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><BR = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><BR = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><HR = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: = 13.3333px; ">Is your lingo strong enough to ace these new word puzzles = from Live Search Games? </SPAN><A href=3D"http://g.msn.ca/ca55/214" = target=3D"_new"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, = 0, 238); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">Click here to test your = vocab!</SPAN></A><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: = Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; = "></SPAN></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>= --Boundary_(ID_EyhWS2m148LN6P9c+vP1uw)--
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