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    The Amsterdam Declaration on Fungal Nomenclature
    Hawksworth, DL; Crous, PW; Redhead, SA; Reynolds, DR; Samson, RA; Seifert, KA; Taylor, JW; Wingfield, MJ; Abaci, Ö; Aime, C; Asan, A; Bai, FY; de Beer, ZW; Begerow, D; Berikten, D; Boekhout, T; Buchanan, PK; Burgess, T; Buzina, W; Cai, L; Cannon, PF; Crane, JL; Damm, U; Daniel, HM; van Diepeningen, AD; Druzhinina, I; Dyer, PS; Eberhardt, U; Fell, JW; Frisvad, JC; Geiser, DM; Geml, J; Glienke, C; Gräfenhan, T; Groenewald, JZ; Groenewald, M; de Gruyter, J; Guého-Kellermann, E; Guo, LD; Hibbett, DS; Hong, SB; de Hoog, GS; Houbraken, J; Huhndorf, SM; Hyde, KD; Ismail, A; Johnston, PR; Kadaifciler, DG; Kirk, PM; Koljalg, U; Kurtzman, CP; Lagneau, PE; Lévesque, CA; Liu, XZ; Lombard, L; Meyer, W; Miller, A; Minter, DW; Najafzadeh, MJ; Norvell, L; Ozerskaya, SM; Öziç, R; Pennycook, SR; Peterson, SW; Pettersson, OV; Quaedvlieg, W; Robert, VA; Ruibal, C; Schnürer, J; Schroers, HJ; Shivas, R; Slippers, B; Spierenburg, H; Takashima, M; Taskin, E; Thines, M; Thrane, U; Uztan, AH; van Raak, M; Varga, J; Vasco, A; Verkley, G; Videira, SIR; de Vries, RP; Weir, BS; Yilmaz, N; Yurkov, A; Zhang, N
    The Amsterdam Declaration on Fungal Nomenclature was agreed at an international symposium convened in Amsterdam on 19-20 April 2011 under the auspices of the International Commission on the Taxonomy of Fungi (ICTF). The purpose of the symposium was to address the issue of whether or how the current system of naming pleomorphic fungi should be maintained or changed now that molecular data are routinely available. The issue is urgent as mycologists currently follow different practices, and no consensus was achieved by a Special Committee appointed in 2005 by the International Botanical Congress to advise on the problem. The Declaration recognizes the need for an orderly transitition to a single-name nomenclatural system for all fungi, and to provide mechanisms to protect names that otherwise then become endangered. That is, meaning that priority should be given to the first described name, except where that is a younger name in general use when the first author to select a name of a pleomorphic monophyletic genus is to be followed, and suggests controversial cases are referred to a body, such as the ICTF, which will report to the Committee for Fungi. If appropriate, the ICTF could be mandated to promote the implementation of the Declaration. In addition, but not forming part of the Declaration, are reports of discussions held during the symposium on the governance of the nomenclature of fungi, and the naming of fungi known only from an environmental nucleic acid sequence in particular. Possible amendments to the Draft BioCode (2011) to allow for the needs of mycologists are suggested for further consideration, and a possible example of how a fungus only known from the environment might be described is presented.
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    Indoor airborne fungal pollution in newborn units in Turkey
    Demirel, R; Sen, B; Kadaifciler, D; Yoltas, A; Okten, S; Ozkale, E; Berikten, D; Samson, RA; Uztan, AH; Yilmaz, N; Gunyar, OA; Aydogdu, H; Asan, A; Kivanc, M; Ozdil, S; Sakartepe, E
    Pathogenic and/or opportunistic fungal species are major causes of nosocomial infections, especially in controlled environments where immunocompromised patients are hospitalized. Indoor fungal contamination in hospital air is associated with a wide range of adverse health effects. Regular determination of fungal spore counts in controlled hospital environments may help reduce the risk of fungal infections. Because infants have inchoate immune systems, they are given immunocompromised patient status. The aim of the present study was to evaluate culturable airborne fungi in the air of hospital newborn units in the Thrace, Marmara, Aegean, and Central Anatolia regions of Turkey. A total of 108 air samples were collected seasonally from newborn units in July 2012, October 2012, January 2013, and April 2013 by using an air sampler and dichloran 18% glycerol agar (DG18) as isolation media. We obtained 2593 fungal colonies comprising 370 fungal isolates representing 109 species of 28 genera, which were identified through multi-loci gene sequencing. Penicillium, Aspergillus, Cladosporium, Talaromyces, and Alternaria were the most abundant genera identified (35.14, 25.40, 17.57, 2.70, and 6.22% of the total, respectively).