When: 2012-12-03
Collection location: Biology of Fungi Lab, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA [Click for map]
Who: Weih Li
Notes:
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Zygomycota
Class: Zygomycetes
Order: Mucorales
Family: Mucoraceae
Genus: Mucor
Species: M. racemosus
*Non-motile asexual sporangiospores in columellate sporangia
*Sexual reproduction by direct fusion of multinucleate gametangia to form a multinucleate zygospore.
*Spores are dispersed by wind, by water, or by animals
*Most are saprophytic (grow on dead or decayed organic matter), many are coprophilous (on dung)
*My sample is obtained from squirrel dung on the campus
*Interesting Facts:
-Mucor racemosus f. racemosus Found by Fresen. (1850)
-Cause allergic reaction among some people
-Can be isolated from the soft cheese Camenbert
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| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 3.64 | 1 | (Weih Li) | |||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
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| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
2.35 | 78.46% | |||||||
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what scope are you using?
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a compound scope from my UCB fungi lab.