TABLE 1.

List of culture collections^a

Collection	Type of organisms	Web address
American Type Culture Collection (ATCC)	All types	www.atcc.org
CABI Bioscience	Filamentous fungi	www.cabi-bioscience.org
Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures	Filamentous fungi and yeasts	www.cbs.knaw.nl/
Collection Nationale de Cultures de Microorganismes	All types	http://www.pasteur.fr/recherche/unites/Cncm/index-en.html
Die Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen	All types	http://www.dsmz.de/
Herman J. Phaff Culture Collection	Yeasts and fungi	http://www.phaffcollection.org/
National Collection of Industrial and Marine Bacteria	Bacteria	www.ncimb.co.uk
National Collection of Yeast Cultures	Yeasts	www.ncyc.co.uk

^aDerived from the work of Bamforth (42).