Journal
INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION
Volume 63, Issue 5, Pages 626-629Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibiod.2009.03.010
Keywords
Fungal identification; PCR; ITS sequencing; Foxing; Ancient documents
Funding
- University of Coimbra [III/AMB/12/2005]
- FCT [PTDC/HAH/65262/2006]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [PTDC/HAH/65262/2006] Funding Source: FCT
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This multidisciplinary research combines knowledge in molecular biology with fungal morphology, aiming at the identification of infecting fungi from historical documents on the Archive of the University of Coimbra. The identification of infecting fungi on several bibliographic documents and support materials was based both on ribosomal DNA loci amplification and sequencing, and morphological identification, using macro- and microscopical traits. A high fungal diversity was found in all types of support: parchment. laid-paper and wood-pulp paper. Fourteen fungal genera were isolated, identified, and kept in culture. The most frequent were Cladosporium, Penicillium and Aspergillus, and other less frequent genera, such as Alternaria, Botrytis, Chaetomium, Chromelosporium, Epicoccum, Phlebiopsys and Toxicocladosporium were also present. Within these genera, 20 different species were identified, from which 15 were found only in a single support type. Cladosporium cladosporioides and Penicillium chrysogenum were the only species present in all support types. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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