Wicklowia aquatica is a freshwater fungus species in the genus Wicklowia that is found in Florida and Costa Rica.[2][1][3] Wicklowia aquatica produces the depsidone compound folipastatin.[4]

Wicklowia aquatica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Pleosporales
Family: Wicklowiaceae
Genus: Wicklowia
Species:
W. aquatica
Binomial name
Wicklowia aquatica
Raja, A.Ferrer & Shearer (2010)[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Jones, E. B. Gareth; Hyde, Kevin D.; Pang, Ka-Lai (27 August 2014). Freshwater Fungi: and Fungal-like Organisms. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 38. ISBN 978-3-11-033348-0.
  2. ^ "Wicklowia aquatica". www.uniprot.org.
  3. ^ Raja, Huzefa A.; Ferrer, Astrid; Shearer, Carol A.; Miller, Andrew N. (May 2010). "Freshwater ascomycetes: Wicklowia aquatica, a new genus and species in the Pleosporales from Florida and Costa Rica". Mycoscience. 51 (3): 208–214. doi:10.1007/s10267-009-0027-x. S2CID 21735530.
  4. ^ Bycroft, Barrie W.; Payne, David J. (9 August 2013). Dictionary of Antibiotics and Related Substances: with CD-ROM, Second Edition. CRC Press. p. 829. ISBN 978-1-4822-8215-3.