“…Owing to superior adaptability and survivability, A. niger is ubiquitous in nature, including in terrestrial soil (Xie et al, 2006), ocean (Li et al, 2016;Uchoa et al, 2017), the Arctic (Singh et al, 2011), and space. It also occupies a wide spectrum of habitats in plants and animals such as herb (Shreelalitha and Sridhar, 2015;Manganyi et al, 2018), shrub (Kaur et al, 2015;Liu et al, 2016), tree (Soltani and Moghaddam, 2014;Wang et al, 2019), lichen (Elissawy et al, 2019), shrimp (Liu et al, 2013;Fang et al, 2016), and marine sponge (Takano et al, 2001;Hiort et al, 2004). A. niger strain grows well in various media with different carbon sources, including glucose, bran, maltose, xylan, xylose, sorbitol, and lactose (Toghueo et al, 2018).…”