Ochratoxin A: General overview and actual molecular status

A El Khoury, A Atoui - Toxins, 2010 - mdpi.com
Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a mycotoxin produced by several species of Aspergillus and
Penicillium fungi that structurally consists of a para-chlorophenolic group containing a …

An update on pollen and fungal spore aerobiology

HA Burge - Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2002 - Elsevier
Changes in climate are altering pollen distribution. Predictive modeling can be used to
forecast long-and short-term changes in pollen concentrations. Increasing evidence …

Fungal community assembly in drought-stressed sorghum shows stochasticity, selection, and universal ecological dynamics

C Gao, L Montoya, L Xu, M Madera… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Community assembly of crop-associated fungi is thought to be strongly influenced by
deterministic selection exerted by the plant host, rather than stochastic processes. Here we …

Dispersal in microbes: fungi in indoor air are dominated by outdoor air and show dispersal limitation at short distances

RI Adams, M Miletto, JW Taylor, TD Bruns - The ISME journal, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The indoor microbiome is a complex system that is thought to depend on dispersal from the
outdoor biome and the occupants' microbiome combined with selective pressures imposed …

Size‐resolved emission rates of airborne bacteria and fungi in an occupied classroom

J Qian, D Hospodsky, N Yamamoto, WW Nazaroff… - Indoor …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The role of human occupancy as a source of indoor biological aerosols is poorly
understood. Size‐resolved concentrations of total and biological particles in indoor air were …

[HTML][HTML] Ten questions concerning the microbiomes of buildings

RI Adams, S Bhangar, KC Dannemiller, JA Eisen… - Building and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Buildings represent habitats for microorganisms that can have direct or indirect effects on the
quality of our living spaces, health, and well-being. Over the last ten years, new research …

Fungal and bacterial growth in floor dust at elevated relative humidity levels

KC Dannemiller, CJ Weschler, J Peccia - Indoor air, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Under sustained, elevated building moisture conditions, bacterial and fungal growth occurs.
The goal of this study was to characterize microbial growth in floor dust at variable …

Contribution of vegetation to the microbial composition of nearby outdoor air

DS Lymperopoulou, RI Adams… - Applied and …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Given that epiphytic microbes are often found in large population sizes on plants, we tested
the hypothesis that plants are quantitatively important local sources of airborne …

The diversity and distribution of fungi on residential surfaces

RI Adams, M Miletto, JW Taylor, TD Bruns - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The predominant hypothesis regarding the composition of microbial assemblages in indoor
environments is that fungal assemblages are structured by outdoor air with a moderate …

Characterizing airborne fungal and bacterial concentrations and emission rates in six occupied children's classrooms

D Hospodsky, N Yamamoto, WW Nazaroff, D Miller… - Indoor …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Baseline information on size‐resolved bacterial, fungal, and particulate matter (PM) indoor
air concentrations and emission rates is presented for six school classrooms sampled in four …