Airborne Ascomycotina on the island of Crete: Seasonal patternsbased on an 8-year volumetric survey

Gonianakis, Michael I.; Neonakis, Ioannis K.; Darivianaki, E.; Gonianakis, Ioannis M.; Bouros, Demosthenes; Kontou-Fili, Kalliopi

doi:10.1007/s10453-004-5881-6

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“…is frequent, but in low number, in aerobiological samples (Gonianakis et al 2005), as we observed in the present paper, since spore concentrations decrease with the height at which the monitoring is carried out (Li et al 2010). Pleospora had an irregular seasonal behaviour, together with significant and positive correlation coefficients with rainfall.…”

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First fungal spore calendar of the middle-west of the Iberian Peninsula

2016

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The aim of this paper was to make a first approximation of the fungal spore airborne content in Valladolid along the year, constructing the first spore calendar for the middle-west of Spain. So that, we monitored the city during 2005 and 2006, being Cladosporium the most abundant type, present all over the year (together with Pleospora). The greatest atmospheric spore diversity was observed in April in contrast with February. The intra-diurnal pattern for Alternaria, Cladosporium and Dreschlera was very similar with an hourly concentration percentage decreasing along two periods, whereas Coprinus, Ganoderma and Periconia showed a clearly nocturnal pattern. The meteorological parameter that most influenced airborne spore concentrations was temperature, significantly and positively in the case of dry-air spores but negatively for wet-air spores.

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First fungal spore calendar of the middle-west of the Iberian Peninsula

2016

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“…In the Athens metropolitan area, which is the largest urban area in Greece, airborne fungi have been occasionally sampled by sedimentation on agar plates (Bartzokas, 1973(Bartzokas, , 1975Demetriades & Zachos, 1948;Kapsanaki-Gotsi & Gonou-Zagou, 1990;Kapsanaki-Gotsi et al, 1997;KapsanakiGotsi & Pyrri, 1998;Papavassiliou & Bartzokas, 1975;Papavassiliou et al, 1967). The monitoring of certain allergenic fungi using a Burkard 7-day spore sampler, has been reported for the cities of Thessaloniki (Gioulekas et al, 1996(Gioulekas et al, , 2003(Gioulekas et al, , 2004a(Gioulekas et al, , 2004b, Athens (Baka et al, 1998(Baka et al, , 2000Gioulekas et al, 2003), and Heraklion (Gioulekas et al, 2003;Gonianakis et al, 2001aGonianakis et al, , 2001bGonianakis et al, , 2005. Pyrri & Kapsanaki-Gotsi (2000) used a volumetric cultural method for the first time in a Greek study during their investigation of airborne fungi in the city of Athens.…”

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A comparative study on the airborne fungi in Athens, Greece, by viable and non-viable sampling methods

Pyrri

Kapsanaki-Gotsi

2007

Aerobiologia

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Airborne fungi were studied in the city of Athens using two complementary methods in which 136 concurrent samplings were carried out during the 12-month period from January until December 1998. A portable Burkard air sampler for agar plates was used for trapping the culturable portion of the mycobiota. Nineteen genera of fungi were identified and assessed in terms of total numbers and fluctuations in , Trichoderma and Ulocladium), with the exception of those included in the Sphaeropsidales, the yeasts, and the non-sporulating fungi, which were counted as groups. A volumetric Burkard air sampler for glass slides was operating simultaneously for detecting the total mycobiota, including the non-culturable and the non-viable portion. Ascospores, basidiospores, spores of Myxomycetes, Ustilaginales, Uredinales and Erysiphales, teliospores of Puccinia, as well as conidia of the genera Curvularia, Helminthosporium, Periconia, Pestalotiopsis, Pithomyces, Polythrincium, Stachybotrys, Stemphylium and Torula were also recorded. Only seven of the genera were recovered by both samplers. The total numbers of fungal spores, which had a maximum concentration of 3,175 spores/m 3 , as well as the spore concentrations of the genera Cladosporium (2,565 spores/m 3 ) and Alternaria (280 spores/m 3 ) were underestimated by the viable method (2,435 CFU/m 3 for the total, 2,169 CFU/m 3 for Cladosporium and 180 CFU/m 3 for Alternaria). The non-viable method fails to resolve the identification of the genera Penicillium and Aspergillus, which are major components of the airborne mycobiota (1,068 CFU/m 3 and 204 CFU/m 3 , respectively) based on recovery by the viable method.

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“…Some of these species have been reported to be important inhalant allergens. They contribute to the development of the symptoms of both rhinitis and asthma due to the production of mycotoxins and microbial volatile organic compounds as well as the liberation of ascospores and hyphal fragments in the indoor environment (Gonianakis et al., 2005, Apetrei et al., 2009, Polizzi et al., 2009, Mason et al., 2010, Andersen et al., 2011, Miller and McMullin, 2014). Chaetomium globosum is the most common species of the Chaetomiaceae in the indoor environment (Vesper et al., 2007, Ayanbimpe et al., 2010, Straus, 2011, McMullin et al., 2013, Miller and McMullin, 2014), and this species can already be present in new gypsum wallboard (Andersen et al.…”

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Diversity and taxonomy ofChaetomiumand chaetomium-like fungi from indoor environments

Wang

Houbraken

Groenewald

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Studies in Mycology

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During a study of indoor fungi, 145 isolates belonging to Chaetomiaceae were cultured from air, swab and dust samples from 19 countries. Based on the phylogenetic analyses of DNA-directed RNA polymerase II second largest subunit (rpb2), β-tubulin (tub2), ITS and 28S large subunit (LSU) nrDNA sequences, together with morphological comparisons with related genera and species, 30 indoor taxa are recognised, of which 22 represent known species, seven are described as new, and one remains to be identified to species level. In our collection, 69 % of the indoor isolates with six species cluster with members of the Chaetomium globosum species complex, representing Chaetomium sensu stricto. The other indoor species fall into nine lineages that are separated from each other with several known chaetomiaceous genera occurring among them. No generic names are available for five of those lineages, and the following new genera are introduced here: Amesia with three indoor species, Arcopilus with one indoor species, Collariella with four indoor species, Dichotomopilus with seven indoor species and Ovatospora with two indoor species. The generic concept of Botryotrichum is expanded to include Emilmuelleria and the chaetomium-like species B. muromum (= Ch. murorum) in which two indoor species are included. The generic concept of Subramaniula is expanded to include several chaetomium-like taxa as well as one indoor species. Humicola is recognised as a distinct genus including two indoor taxa. According to this study, Ch. globosum is the most abundant Chaetomiaceae indoor species (74/145), followed by Ch. cochliodes (17/145), Ch. elatum (6/145) and B. piluliferum (5/145). The morphological diversity of indoor Chaetomiaceae as well as the morphological characteristics of the new genera are described and illustrated. This taxonomic study redefines the generic concept of Chaetomium and provides new insight into the phylogenetic relationships among different genera within Chaetomiaceae.

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Airborne Ascomycotina on the island of Crete: Seasonal patternsbased on an 8-year volumetric survey

Cited by 17 publications

References 14 publications

First fungal spore calendar of the middle-west of the Iberian Peninsula

First fungal spore calendar of the middle-west of the Iberian Peninsula

A comparative study on the airborne fungi in Athens, Greece, by viable and non-viable sampling methods

Diversity and taxonomy ofChaetomiumand chaetomium-like fungi from indoor environments

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