Etymologia: Schizophyllum commune

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Mahajan, Monika
• Description:
  Schizophyllum commune, or split-gill mush- room, is an environmental, wood-rotting basidiomycetous fungus. Schizophyllum is derived from “Schíza” meaning split because of the appearance of radial, centrally split, gill like folds; “commune” means common or shared ownership or ubiquitous. Swedish mycologist, Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878), the Linnaeus of Mycology, assigned the scientific name in 1815. German mycologist Hans Kniep in 1930 discovered its sexual reproduc- tion by consorting and recombining genomes with any one of numerous compatible mates (currently >2,800).
  
  Isolation by Kligman in 1950 of fleshy fungus that had fan-shaped sporophores from a case of onychomycosis was regarded as interesting. However, it was dismissed as improbable because mushrooms were not known to invade animal tissue. This emerging fungal pathogen is characterized by the presence of clamp connections, hy- phal spicules, and formation of basidiocarps with basidiospores.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Elias Magnus Fries Etymologia Fungi Hans Kniep Schizophyllum Terminology As Topic
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 2022; 28(3):725
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8888233
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Name as Subject:
  Fries, Elias, 1794-1878 ; Kniep, Hans, 1881-1930 ; Fries, Elias, 1794-1878 ; Kniep, Hans, 1881-1930
• Genre:
  Etymologia
• Volume:
  28
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b51fea4d3ce5a1d6b0d578ad5fc3b30f0a3a32b272f33f13800c98a597bad5a8
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/115203/cdc_115203_DS1.pdf
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