Collection Acronyms

The following is a description of all acronyms used to identify collections:

AJ - Central Research Laboratories, Kawasaki, Japan

AS - Academia Sinica, Beijing, China

ATCC - American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, USA

B - G. Barth collection (Zentralinstitut fuer Mikrobiologie und experimentelle Therapie, Jena, Germany) - collection defunct

BCRC - see CCRC

CBS - Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Utrecht, The Netherlands

CCJ - In F. Oberwinkler's collection (Lehrstuhl fur Botanik und Mykologie, University of Tubingen, Germany)

CCRC - Culture Collection and Research Centre, Food Industry Research & Development Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan

CCY - Slovak Collection of Yeasts, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

CECT - Coleccion Espanola de Cultivos Tipo, Departamento de Microbiologia, Valencia, Spain

CL - Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen, Denmark

CLIB - Collection de Levures d'Interet Biotechnologique, Thiverval Grignon, France

CNRS - Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon, France

CSIR - Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa

DBVPG - Industrial Yeasts Collection, Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Perugia, Italy

DJM - D.J. McLaughlin collection (University of Minnesota, USA)

DSM - Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen, Braunschweig, Germany

FST - D.G. Ahearn collection (Biology Department, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA)

GM - Gillian Midgley collection, (formerly at St Thomas Hospital, London, UK)

HUT - Department of Fermentation Technology, Higashi-hiroshima, Japan

IAM - Institute of Applied Microbiology, Tokyo, Japan

IFO - Institute for Fermentation, Osaka, Japan (collection transferred to NBRC)

IGC - Portuguese Yeast Culture Collection, Caparica, Portugal

IJFM - Instituto Jaime Ferran de Microbiologia del Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, Spain

IMI - CAB International Mycological Institute, Egham, UK

IMUFRJ - Instituto de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

IP - Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

JCM - Japan Collection of Microorganisms, Wako, Saitama, Japan

K - Probably H.J. Phaff collection (University of California, Davis, USA)

KCTC - Korean Collection of Type Cultures, Taejon, Korea

LY - Herbier de l'Universite de Lyon, Departement de Biologie Vegetale, Villeurbanne, France

MUCL - Mycotheque de l'Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

NBRC - NITE, Biological Resources Centre, Chiba, Japan

NCAIM Y - National Collection of Agricultural and Industrial Microorganisms, University of Horticulture and Food Industry, Budapest, Hungary

NCPF - National Collection of Pathogenic Fungi, Bristol, UK

NCTC - National Collection of Type Cultures, London, UK

NCYC - National Collection of Yeast Cultures, Norwich, UK

NI - Nagao Institute, Tokyo, Japan (collection defunct)

NIH - National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

NRIC - Nodai Research Institute Culture Collection, Tokyo, Japan

NRRLY/NRRLYB - Agricultural Research Service Culture Collection, Peoria, USA

RV - R. Vanbreuseghem collection (Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Brussels, Belgium)

SBY - J. Santa Maria collection (Escuela Technica Superior de Ingenieros Agr., Un. Politecnica, Cuidad Univ. Madrid, Spain)

SM - Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan

UAMH - University of Alberta, Microfungus Herbarium and Collection, Edmonton, Canada

UCD - University of California, Department of Food Science and Technology, Davis, USA

UEA - University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK (collection defunct)

UFMG - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

UOFS - University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

VKMY - All Russian Collection of Microorganisms, Pushchino, Russia

VKPMY - Russian National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms, Moscow, Russia

VTTC - Collection of Industrial Micoorganisms, Espoo, Finland