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.

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   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