User talk:Bapithra/sandbox

Peer Review

Hi Bapithra,

Here are some suggestions I have after reading your fungus entry. First of all, I would like to mention that the first thing I noticed was the layout of your page. You created a main heading "Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola", though I don't think this is necessary. If you really would like to add this in, I think the best place to put it would be at the very top of your page (i.e. where "User:Bapithra/sandbox" is). This will prevent "Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola" from being a subheading under "Contents". Also, the second last sentence of your introduction ("O.ophiodiicola is the only specie in the genus Ophidiomyces."), you have a minor mistake where you forgot to italicize your fungus name, and put a space after the period.

Taxonomy and naming

• You can mention the year that the fungus was first classified as Chrysosporium ophiodiicola
• It is a little confusing that you switch back and forth between the names C. ophiodiicola and Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola
• The points you made about growth, and odor may make more sense to be placed under the subheading "Growth and Morphology"
• Since you used the old name C. ophiodiicola in your first few points and then switched to the newer name in the last two points, it may be helpful for readers if you mentioned when the switchover of names occurred

Culture characteristics

• It is only necessary to capitalize the first word of the subheading - so "characteristics" does not have to be
• It may be helpful to link "Mercaptan" to a wikipedia page, or perhaps use more common words to describe this odor in a way that the general public can understand

Morphology

• It can be useful to readers if you link various terms such as hypha, septate, mycelia, etc.
• Perhaps explain that Aleurioconidia are condia - and this way, you can link the word "conidia"
• I suggest explaining more about rhexolytic and schizolytic dihiscence - what it is, and what the difference between the two is

Overall your information regarding O. ophiodiicola is very interesting, especially the bits about symptoms in snakes. I suggest adding some more specific information about snake symptoms in your introduction since it is interesting and easy to read, thus can captivate more readers. Furthermore, it seems you have some coding errors in your references at the very bottom. I think you might be missing "}}" which should be added to the very end of your reference.

Good luck! Em.elle (talk) 03:34, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Peer Review by Lipei12

Hi Bapithra,

Nice job on your article! The information were very interesting. Here are a few suggestions to help you elaborate your article.

First, I noticed a typo in Morphology. "reproduces aseually", and you may want to wiki link the more technical words, such as hyphae, rhexolytic, mycelia, and mercaptan.

Second, You mentioned that they reproduce asexually, do they have sexual reproduction? If not, you can mention it doesn't.

Third, the clinical symptoms were very interesting. Do you know how the snakes were infected? Maybe by consuming infected insects or by contaminated soil? Can the infection be transmitted between snakes? I found a paper that mentions a method to prevent transmission between snakes.

Marta Rzadkowska , Matthew C. Allender , Miranda O'Dell , and Carol Maddox. 2016. Evaluation of Common Disinfectants Effective against Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola, the Causative Agent of Snake Fungal Disease.

Fourth. You may consider if there are any treatment for the infection? The paper above describes disinfectants against the fungus, which you may consider. Here's another paper that may be useful.

Elizabeth Bohuski, Jeffrey M Lorch, Kathryn M Griffin and David S Blehert. 2015. TaqMan real-time polymerase chain reaction for detection of Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola, the fungus associated with snake fungal disease.

Lastly, you mentioned there is an issue with wild life conservation of snakes. Are there efforts to mitigate? Here is a paper you may look upon.

Jeffrey M. Lorch, Susan Knowles, Julia S. Lankton, Kathy Michell, Jaime L. Edwards, Joshua M. Kapfer, Richard A. Staffen, Erik R. Wild, Katie Z. Schmidt, Anne E. Ballmann, Doug Blodgett, Terence M. Farrell, Brad M. Glorioso, Lisa A. Last, Steven J. Price, Krysten L. Schuler, Christopher E. Smith, James F. X. Wellehan, David S. Blehert. 2016. Snake fungal disease: an emerging threat to wild snakes. http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royptb/371/1709/20150457.full.pdf

I enjoyed reading your article, very interesting. I look forward to your final work. Great job!

Lipei12 (talk) 03:29, 5 November 2016 (UTC)