Possible ID: Mucor
Classification:
Phylum Zygomycota
Class Mucouromycota
Order Mucorales
Family Mucoraceae
Genus Mucor
Isolation and culturing methods:
This specific culture was isolated from a plate that was placed underneath an air duct in the 3rd floor mens bathroom on the biology side of the Rooke Building located at Bucknell University. The plate was left under the duct for 2 hours and was left to grow for multiple weeks. The organism was then extracted and isolated in a pure culture grown at room temperature.
Culture appearance and growth:
The culture was very fast growing and in just a couple days had overtaken the entire plate. The appearance of the culture was very fuzzy consisting of many dark sporangia at the ends of the sporangiophore. there was almost no space within the pate left to grow as the culture had grown on nearly every spot, and the culture grew into the plate.
Spore Production:
The spore of the fungus was quite dark and spherical. The size was about 2-5um. The sporangiophore were much larger and about 50-60 um in size and where also spherical/globular.
Collector: AJ Paolella Group: Andriana, Tommy and AJ
