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INVAM ACCESSION CODE NAMES


All INVAM accession names consist of three components:

  1. To conform to rules of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), accession codes can be designed to track country (or state) of origin. To that end, a two letter designation at the beginning of the INVAM accession code signifies the geographic origin of a culture. Within North America, where the greatest number of accessions have been obtained, U.S. states and Canadian provinces receive their own code designation. The table below lists the letter codes currently in use, and the geographic locations which they represent.
  2. A 3-digit number is added which is unique to each accession from a given geographic location (e.g. WV201 or WV579). If more than one fungal species sporulates in the first-generation pot culture of an accession, then each species is separated and a letter is added to the number code to link the different fungal species to a common "ancestral" accession (and geographic origin). For example, WV579A and WV579B are accessions of two species that sporulated in a pot culture deposited as WV579.
  3. Last, a dashed integer is added from the first pot culture generation onward. This integer is an internal code used to track successive pot culture generations of an accession, so that we know how often an accession has been repropagated. Thus, WV579A-7 is the seventh pot culture cycle of accession WV579A. This part of the code is not reported to users, but it can be provided upon request.

    UNITED STATES

    AK - Alaska
    AZ - Arizona
    CA - California
    CO - Colorado
    DE - Delaware

    FL - Florida
    GA - Georgia
    HA - Hawaii
    ID - Idaho
    IA - Iowa
    IL - Illinois
    IN - Indiana
    KS - Kansas
    KY - Kentucky
    MA - Massachusetts
    MD - Maryland
    MI - Michigan
    MN - Minnesota
    MO - Missouri
    MS - Mississippi
    MT - Montana
    NC - North Carolina
    ND - North Dakota
    NE - Nebraska
    NH - New Hampshire
    NJ - New Jersey
    NM - New Mexico
    NV - Nevada
    NY - New York
    OH - Ohio
    OR - Oregon
    PA - Pennsylvania
    RI - Rhode Island
    SC - South Carolina
    SD - South Dakota
    TN - Tennessee
    TX - Texas
    UT - Utah
    VA - Virginia
    WA - Washington
    WI - Wisconsin
    WV - West Virginia
    WY - Wyoming

    CANADA

    NS - Nova Scotia
    ON - Ontario
    QE - Quebec
    SA - Saskatchewan


    EUROPE

    BEG - BEG isolates
    DN - Denmark
    FR - France
    GR - Germany
    HO - Holland
    IT - Italy
    PL - Poland
    SP - Spain
    SW - Switzerland
    UK - United Kingdom

    AFRICA

    CM - Cameroon
    EY - Egypt
    FA - Burkina Faso
    KE - Kenya
    MG - Madagascar

    ML - Mali
    MR - Morocco
    NB - Namibia
    NG - Nigeria
    SE - Senegal
    SF - South Africa
    ZM - Zimbabwe

    IC - Iceland
    SOUTH AMERICA

    BR - Brazil
    CH - Chile
    CL - Colombia
    PE
    - Peru
    VZ - Venezuela
    CENTRAL AMERICA

    BU
    - Bermuda
    CR
    - Costa Rica
    CU
    - Cuba
    EC
    - Ecuador
    MX
    - Mexico
    NI
    - Nicaragua

    ASIA

    CN - China
    IS
    - Israel
    JA - Japan
    KR - Korea
    MY - Malaysia
    SN - Singapore
    SY - Syria
    TL - Thailand
    TU - Turkey
    TW - Taiwan
    VN - Vietnam

     
    AU - Australia