Tag Archives: Mycology

November 2018—Color Atlas of Mycology: An Illustrated Field Guide Based on Proficiency Testing is a new book from CAP Press, released in October. It is designed to help in identifying fungi using the most recent taxonomic classifications. In it is more than 15 years of proficiency testing data to highlight diagnostic clusters of incorrect identifications and address conceptual classification issues. Following is an excerpt from the section on yeast.

October 2018—CAP Press released in October the Color Atlas of Mycology, by Gordon Love, MD, D(ABMM), and Julie Ribes, MD, PhD. Its 388 pages hold more than 800 tables and images, with identifications verified by DNA sequencing (for images post-2009). Here, in an exchange with CAP TODAY, Dr. Love explains how this atlas stands apart from others in the Color Atlas series and from others on the market.