Abbreviated terms
| acuA | Acetyl Co-Enzyme A Synthase gene |
| AFLP | Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism |
| AIHA | American Industrial Hygiene Association |
| ASHRAE | American Society for Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers |
| ASHVE | American Society for Heating and Ventilation Engineers |
| BCE | Before the Common Era |
| benA | Beta-tubulin gene |
| bp | Base pairs |
| CFM | Cubic feet (of air) per minute (per person) |
| CFU | Colony Forming Unit |
| CI | Consistency Index |
| CMHC | Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation |
| CSA | Creatine sucrose agar (see Frisvad, 1985) |
| CYA | Czapek’s yeast autolysate agar (see Malloch, 1981) |
| DG18 | Dichloran 18 % Glycerol agar (see Hocking and Pitt, 1980) |
| DGGE | Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic acid |
| ds | Double stranded |
| GM | General Motors Corporation |
| his4 | Histone 4 gene |
| HDX | Heteroduplexed DNA structure |
| HGE | Horizontal gel electrophoresis |
| HMA | Heteroduplex mobility assay |
| HP | Hypersensitivity pneumonitis |
| HVAC | Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning |
| IAQ | Indoor Air Quality |
| ICPAT | International Commission on Penicillium and Aspergillus Taxonomy |
| ILD | Incongruence Length Difference test |
| ISIAQ | International Society for Indoor Air Quality and Climate |
| ITS | Internal transcribed spacer region, nuclear rDNA |
| kbp | Kilo-base pairs |
| MLA | Modified Leonian’s agar (see Malloch, 1981) |
| NAT | N-acryolyltrishydroxymethylaminomethane |
| NCU-2 | Names in Current Use in the Trichocomaceae (see Pitt and Samson, 1993) |
| OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
| OTU | Operational Taxonomic Unit |
| PAW-I | First International Penicillium and Aspergillus Workshop |
| PAW-II | Second International Penicillium and Aspergillus Workshop |
| PAW-III | Third International Penicillium and Aspergillus Workshop |
| PAG | Polyacrylamide gel |
| PCR | Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| PHT | Partition Homogeneity Test |
| RAPD | Random-Amplified Polymorphic DNA |
| rDNA | DNA subrepeat encoding nuclear ribosomal RNA |
| RFLP | Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism |
| RI | Retention Index |
| rRNA | Ribosomal ribonucleic acid |
| ss | Single stranded |
| SSCP | Single Strand Conformation Polymorphism |
| TAE | Tris-acetate-EDTA (see Sambrook et al., 1989) |
| TBE | Tris-borate-EDTA (see Sambrook et al., 1989) |
| TEMED | N,N,N’,N’-tetramethyl-ethylenediamine |
| trxB | Thioredoxin reductase gene |
| UFFI | Urea-formaldehyde foam insulation |
| UPGMA | Unweighted pair group method using arithmetic averages |
| USD | US dollars |
| USDA | United States Department of Agriculture |
| V8A | V8 Juice agar (Malloch, 1981) |
| VGE | Vertical gel electrophoresis |
| VNTR | Variable-number tandem repeat |
| VOCs | Volatile organic compounds |
| WWII | World War II |
Acronyms of herbaria and culture collections follow Holmgren et al. (1990) and Takishima et al. (1989).
