资料来源: BBC http://tinyurl.com/kdura Friday, 22 June, 2001 Fungus 'eats' CDs Scientists in Spain have identified a new form of fungus that eats compact discs. A geologist at the Museum of Natural History in Madrid discovered the fungus, which belongs to the common Geotrichum family, on CDs brought back from the central American state of Belize. The fungus had attacked the outer edge of the disc, consuming plastic and even aluminium. It rendered the CD unplayable. Experts say it is unusual but not unknown for a fungus to attack manmade substances like plastics. BBC 2001年6月22日星期五 霉菌吃CD 西班牙科学家已确认某新品种的霉菌会吃掉CD. 它是由一位马德里自然历史博物馆 的地质学家,从中美洲贝里斯带回的CD上发现的,隶属於Geotrichum家族. 该种霉菌攻击CD的边缘,啃食掉铝跟塑胶,致使CD无法播放. 专家说,霉菌对人造物质(如塑胶)下手虽然反常,但也不算罕见. Javier Garcia-Guinea, head of Geology at the museum, said he believed it was the first documented case of a fungus attacking CDs. Similar reports were coming in from around the world, he said. "This year we received many e-mails from Panama, Costa Rica and Guatemala describing similar cases in tropical countries," Dr. Garcia-Guinea told the BBC. 该馆地质部门的头头,亚佛‧贾西-朱尼亚说,他相信这是首次出现霉菌攻击光碟 的纪录,世界各地都有类似的回报. "今年我们收到来自巴拿马,哥斯大黎加,瓜地马拉等热带国家的e-mail,都描述了 类似的情况" 贾西-朱尼亚博士对BBC做以上表示. Marc Valls, a biologist at Spain's National Centre for Biotechnology, warned people not to be alarmed. He said the fungus would only attack CDs under certain conditions. "Even though this fungus is widespread it could only develop on a CD in high humidity and high temperature, which is not the case most of the time," Mr Valls told the BBC. And he said there was a positive side to the story - the ability of micro-organisms to degrade manmade products could help in waste disposal. "Nature is very clever and, for all the materials that we design, sooner or later they will be degraded by some organism." 国家生技中心的生物学家马克‧瓦尔斯告诉民众莫过度惊慌. 他说霉菌只会在 某些情况下才攻击CD. "即便这种霉菌到处都是,它依然只有在高温高湿度的环境下才会作怪,然而大部分 的时候并非如此" 瓦尔斯博士对BBC表示. 他又说,换个角度想这或许是件好事;微生物吃掉人造物质的能力,对处理废弃物 而言有些帮助. "大自然是睿智的,凡人类制造出来的东西,迟早都会有生命体出来把它分解掉." =========================================================================== 从文章内容可以看出,真正去研究霉菌的的其实是生物背景的Marc Valls,所以Nature 用Victor Cardenes才会查不到东西. 那如果用Marc Valls去查?! =========================================================================== 待续..... -- 爱乐社板是一片没有小毅的净土 --

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