Microbe Division (JCM)

ABB	Asian Bacterial Bank, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
ACAM	Australian Collection of Antarctic Microorganisms, Cooperative Research Center for the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Environment, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
ACCC	Agricultural Culture Collection of China, Institute of Soil and Fertilization, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.
ACM	Australian Collection of Microorganisms, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (same as UQM).
AHN	Anaerobe Reference Laboratory, Helsinki Collection, Helsinki, Finland.
AHU	Laboratory of Culture Collection of Microorganisms, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
AJ	Central Research Laboratories, Ajinomoto Co. Inc., Kawasaki, Japan.
AKU	Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
AMP	Australian Mycological Panel.
ANMR	Asian Network on Microbial Researches.
AS	See CGMCC.
ATCC	American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, VA, USA.
ATHUM	Athens Collection of Fungi, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
ATU	Department of Biotechnology, Division of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (same as FAT).
BCC	BIOTEC Culture Collection, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), Khlong Luang, Pathumthani, Thailand.
BCRC	Bioresources Collection and Research Center, Food Industry Research and Development Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan (same as CCRC).
BDUN	Department of Botany, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
BRL	Butterwick Research Laboratories, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, UK.
BTCC	Biotechnology Culture Collection, Research and Development Center for Biotechnology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Cibinong, Indonesia.
BUSCOB	Bologna University Scardovi Collection of Bifidobacteria
BUCSAV	Biologicky Ustav, Czech Akademie Ved, Prague, Czech Republic.
CAIM	Collection of Aquacultural Important Microorganisms, CIAD/Mazatlán Unit for Aquaculture and Environmental Management, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico.
CBMAI	Brazilian Collection of Microorganisms from the Environment and Industry, State University of Campinas, Paulinia, SP, Brazil.
CBS	CBS-KNAW Culture Collection, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
CCBAU	Culture Collection of Beijing Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
CCEB	Culture Collection of Entomogenous Bacteria, Institute of Entomology, Prague, Czech Republic.
CCF	Culture Collection of Fungi, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
CCFC	See DAOMC.
CCM	Czech Collection of Microorganisms, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
CCMM	Moroccan Coordinated Collections of Micro-organisms, Rabat, Morocco.
CCOS	Culture Collection of Switzerland, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Wädenswil, Switzerland.
CCRC	See BCRC.
CCT	Colecao de Culturas Tropical, Fundacao Tropical de Pesquisas e Tecnologia "André Tosello", Campinas - SP, Brazil.
CCTCC	China Center for Type Culture Collection, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
CCTM	Centre de Collection de Types Microbien, Institut de Microbiologie, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.
CCUG	Culture Collection, University of Göteborg, Department of Clinical Bacteriology, Guldhedsg, Göteborg, Sweden.
CCY	Culture Collection of Yeasts, Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia.
CDA	Canadian Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada.
CDC	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA (same as NCDC).
CEB	Centre d'Etudes du Bouchet, Le Bouchet, France.
CECT	Colección Española de Cultivos Tipo, Universidad de València, Edificio de Investigación, Burjassot, Spain.
CELMS	Collection of Environmental and Laboratory Microbial Strains, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
CFBP	Collection Francaise des Bacteries Phytopathogenes, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Beaucouzé Cedex, France.
CFCC	China Forestry Culture Collection Center, Research Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Beijing, China.
CGMCC	China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (same as AS).
CICC	China Center of Industrial Culture Collection, China National Research Institute of Food and Fermentation Industries, Beijing, China.
CIP	Collection of Institut Pasteur, Biological Resource Center of Institut Pasteur (CRBIP), Paris, France.
CMI	See IMI.
CN	Wellcome Collection of Bacteria, Burroughs Wellcome Research Laboratories, Beckenham, Kent, UK.
CNCM	Collection Nationale de Cultures de Microorganismes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
CNCTC	Czech National Collection of Type Cultures, Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Prague, Czech Republic.
CNRZ	Centre National de Recherches Zootechniques, Jouy-en-Josas, France.
CPCC	China Pharmaceutical Culture Collection, Beijing, China.
CRBIP	Biological Resource Center of Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
CRL	Centro de Referencia Para Lactobacilos, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.
CSIR	Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa.
CSUR	Collection de Souches de l'Unité des Rickettsies, Unités des Rickettsies, Marseille, France.
CUETM	Collection Unite Ecotoxicologie Microbienne, INSERM, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Nord, France.
DAOM	Canadian National Mycological Herbarium, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada; Before 2017 the fungal herbarium (DAOM) and the culture collection (DAOMC) were using the same identifiers for materials kept in both collections.
DAOMC	Canadian Collection of Fungal Cultures, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada (same as CCFC).
DAR	Plant Pathology Herbarium, Orange Agricultural Institute, Orange, New South Wales, Australia.
DBVPG	Collection of Yeasts, Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Perugia, Italy.
DMST	Culture Collection for Medical Microorganism, Department of Medical Sciences, National Institute of Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand.
DMUR	Department of Mycology, University of Recife, Brazil.
DRL	Diagnostical and Research Laboratory, Budapest, Hungary.
DSM	DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany.
ETH	Kultursammlungen der Eidgenosische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland.
FAT	See ATU.
FDA	US Food and Drug Administration, Washington, D.C., USA.
FDC	Forsyth Dental Center, Boston, MI, USA.
FERM	Patent and Bio-Resource Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
FGSC	Fungal Genetics Stock Center, University of Kansas Medical Center, KS, USA.
FIRDI	Food Industry Research and Development Institute, HsinChu, Taiwan.
FMJ	Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan.
FMR	Facultad de Medicina, Reus, Tarragona, Spain.
FRI	Food Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
FRR	Division of Food Research, Food Research Laboratory, CSIRO, North Ryde, N.S.W., Australia.
FTK	Forintek Culture Collection of Wood-Inhabiting Fungi, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
GBS	Ginseng Genetic Resource Bank, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Republic of Korea.
GDMCC	Guangdong Microbial Culture Collection Center, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangzhou, China.
GIFU	See GTC.
GTC	Gifu Type Culture Collection, Department of Microbiology, Gifu University School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan.
HACC	Research Laboratory, Hindustan Antibiotics Ltd., Pimpri Poona, India.
HAMBI	Culture Collection of the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
HKUCC	University of Hong Kong Culture Collection, Department of Ecology and Biodiversity, Hong Kong, China.
HSCC	Culture Collection of the Research and Development Department, Higeta Shoyu Co., Ltd., Choshi, Chiba, Japan.
HUT	HUT Culture Collection, Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Graduate School of Advanced Sciences of Matter, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan.
IAM	IAM Culture Collection, Center for Cellular and Molecular Research, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (collection transferred to JCM).
IBL	Botanical Institute, Lisbon Faculty of Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal.
IBRC	Iranian Biological Resources Center, Academic Center for Education Culture and Research (ACECR), Tehran, Iran.
IBT	IBT Culture Collection of Fungi, Mycology Group, BioCentrum-DTU, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
ICI	Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., Welwyn, Hertfordshire, UK.
ICMP	International Collection of Microorganisms from Plants, Plant Diseases Division, DSIR, Auckland, New Zealand (same as PDDCC).
ICPB	International Collection of Phytopathogenic Bacteria, Davis, CA, USA.
IEM	Czech National Collection of Type Cultures, Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Prague, Czech Republic.
IFAM	Institut für Allgemeine Mikrobiologie, Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
IFM	Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
IFO	Institute for Fermentation, Osaka, Yodogawa-ku, Osaka, Japan (collection transferred to NBRC).
IGC	Center of Biology, Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Oeiras, Portugal.
IHEM	Instutute of Hygiene and Epidemiology-Mycology Laboratory, Brussels, Belgium.
IID	Laboratory Culture Collection, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
IJFM	Instituto ´Jaime Ferrán´ de Microbiología Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain.
IMCC	Inha Microbe Culture Collection, Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
IMET	See DSM (formerly National Kurturensammlung für Mikroorganismen, Zentralinstitut für Mikrobiologie und Experimentelle Therapie, Jena, Germany).
IMI	CABI Bioscience, Eggham, UK (formerly International Mycological Institute; same as CMI).
IMRU	Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
IMSNU	Institute of Microbiology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
IMUR	Institute of Mycology, University of Recife, Recife, Brazil.
IMV	See UCM.
INA	Culture Collection of the Institute of New Antibiotics, Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
InaCC	Indonesian Culture Collection, Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Cibinong, Indonesia.
INCQS	Instituto Nacional de Controle de Qualidade em Saúde, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
INIFAT	INIFAT Fungus Collection, Ministerio de Agricultura, Habana.
INMI	Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
IP	Department of Insect Pathology, Institute of Entomology, České Budĕjovice, Czech Republic.
ISP	International Cooperative Project for Description and Deposition of Type Cultures of Streptomyces (terminated).
ITEM	Agri-Food Toxigenic Fungi Culture Collection, Institute of Sciences of Food Production, Bari, Italy.
IZ	Departamento de Tecnologia Rural, Piracicaba, Brazil.
JBRI	Jeju Biodiversity Research Institute, Jeju, Republic of Korea.
JHH	New York State Herbarium, Albany, NY, USA.
KACC	Korean Agricultural Culture Collection, National Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Rural Development Administration, Suwon, Republic of Korea.
KCCM	Korean Culture Center of Microorganisms, Department of Food Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
KCOM	Korean Collection for Oral Microbiology, Department of Oral Biochemistry, School of Dentistry, Chosun University, Guwangju, Republic of Korea.
KCTC	Korean Collection for Type Cultures, Genetic Resources Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Taejon, Republic of Korea.
KEMB	Korea Environmental Microorganisms Bank, Kyonggi University, Suwon, Republic of Korea.
KEMC	See KEMB.
KFCC	Korean Federation of Culture Collection, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
KMM	Collection of Marine Microorganisms, Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far-Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia.
KY	Tokyo Research Laboratory, Kyowa Hakko Kogyo, Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
LBG	Institute for Agricultural Bacteriology and Fermentation Biology, Confederated Technical High School, Zurich, Switzerland.
LCP	Laboratory of Cryptogamy, National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France.
LIA	Cryobank of Microorganisms, Research Institute of Antibiotics and Enzymes, St. Petersburg, Russia.
LMD	See NCCB (formerly Laboratorium voor Microbiologie der Landbouwhogeschool, Wageningen, The Netherlands).
LMG	Laboratorium voor Microbiologie, Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium.
LSH	London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
LSHB	See LSH.
LUH	Collection L. Dijkshoorn, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
LY	Laboratoire de Mycologie associé au C.N.R.S., Université Claude Bernard, Lyon I, France.
MAFF	Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
MBIC	Marine Biotechnology Institute Culture Collection, Kamaishi, Iwate, Japan (defunct).
MCC	Microbial Culture Collection, National Centre for Cell Science, Maharashtra, India.
MCC-UPLB	Microbial Culture Collection, Museum of Natural History, University of the Philippines at Los Baños, Laguna, The Philippines.
MCCC	Marine Culture Collection of China, The Third Institute of State Oceanic Administration (SOA), Xiamen, Fujian, China.
MCCM	Medical Culture Collection Marburg, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany.
MDH	Michigan Department of Health, USA.
MFC	Matsushima Fungus Collection, Kobe, Japan.
MIT	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., USA.
MRC	National Research Institute for Nutritional Diseases, Tygerberg, South Africa.
MTCC	Microbial Type Culture Collection and Gene Bank, Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India
MU	Willard Sherman Turrell Herbarium, Department of Botany, Miami University, Ohio, USA.
MUCL	Mycothèque de l´Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
NBIMCC	National Bank for Industrial Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Sofia, Bulgaria.
NBRC	NITE Biological Resource Center, Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation, Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan.
NCAIM	National Collection of Agricultural and Industrial Microorganisms, Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Horticulture and Food Industry, Budapest, Hungary.
NCB	National Culture Bank, University of Udine, Udine, Italy.
NCCB	The Netherlands Culture Collection of Bacteria, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
NCCP	National Culture Collection of Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan.
NCDC	See CDC.
NCDO	See NCFB.
NCFB	National Collection of Food Bacteria, Reading, UK (incorporated with NCIMB).
NCIB	National Collection of Industrial Bacteria, Torry Research Station, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK (incorporated with NCIMB).
NCIM	National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
NCIMB	National Collection of Industrial, Food and Marine Bacteria, NCIMB Ltd., Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
NCMA	National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, USA.
NCMB	National Collection of Marine Bacteria, Torry Research Station, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK (incorporated with NCIMB).
NCMH	The North Carolina Memorial Hospital, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
NCPF	National Collection of Pathogenic Fungi, Public Health England, Bristol, UK.
NCPPB	National Collection of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria, Harpenden, UK.
NCTC	National Collection of Type Cultures, Central Public Laboratory Service, London, UK.
NCYC	National Collection of Yeast Cultures, Food Research Institute, Norwich, UK.
NHL	National Institute of Hygienic Sciences, Tokyo, Japan.
NI	Nagao Institute, Tokyo, Japan (defunct).
NIAES	National Institute of Agro-Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
NIAH	National Institute of Animal Health, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
NIPH	Collection A. Nemec, National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic.
NISL	Noda Institute for Scientific Research, Noda, Chiba, Japan.
NML	National Microbiology Laboratory Health Canada Culture Collections, National Microbiology Laboratory-Health Canada, Manitoba, Canada.
NRC	Division of Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada (same as NRCC).
NRCC	See NRC.
NRIC	NODAI Culture Collection, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan.
NRRL	Agricultural Research Service Culture Collection, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, US Department of Agriculture, Peoria, IL, USA.
NYNU	Microbiology Lab, Nanyang Normal University, Henan, China.
NZP	New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Applied Biochemistry Division, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
OAC	Department of Botany and Genetics, University of Guelph, Ont., Canada
OCM	Oregon Collection of Methanogens, Beaverton, OR, USA.
OUT	Department of Fermentation Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
PAGU	Pharmaceutical Sciences, Aichi Gakuin University, Nagoya, Japan.
PAMC	Polar and Alpine Microbial Collection, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
PCI	Penicillin Control and Immunology Section, Food and Drug Administration, Washington DC, USA.
PCM	Polish Collection of Microorganisms, Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland.
PCU	Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
PDDCC	See ICMP.
PRL	Prairie Regional Laboratory, Saskatoon, Canada.
PTCC	Persian Type Culture Collection, Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST), Tehran, Iran.
PYCC	Portuguese Yeast Culture Collection, C. R. M., New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
QM	Quartermaster Research and Development Center, US Army, Natick, MA, USA.
RBF	Raiffeisen Bioforschung, Tullun, Austria.
RIA	Research Institute for Antibiotics, Moscow, Russia.
RIB	National Research Institute of Brewing, Tax Administration Agency, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan.
RIFY	Research Institute of Fermentation, Yamanashi University, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan.
RIMD	Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
RMF	Rocky Mountain Herbarium, Fungi, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA.
RTCI	Research Laboratories, Takeda Chemical Industries Ltd., Japan.
RV	Collection of Leptospira Strains, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Roma-Nomentano, Italy.
SEMIA	Rhizobium Culture Collection, Fundacão Estadual de Pesquisa Agropecuária (FEPAGRO), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
SN	See AMP.
SRRC	Southern Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, New Orleans, LA, USA.
SSI	Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark.
TAMA	Mycology & Metabolic Diversity Research Center, Tamagawa University Research Institute, Machida, Tokyo, Japan.
TBRC	Thailand Bioresource Research Center, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), Khlong Luang, Pathumthani, Thailand.
TI	Herbarium of the Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
TIMM	Institute of Medical Mycology, Teikyo University, Hachioji, Tokyo.
TISTR	Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research, Bangkok, Thailand.
TKBC	Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
TMC	Trudeau Mycobacterial Culture Collection, Trudeau Institute, Denver, CO, USA.
TMI	Tottori Mycological Institute, Japan Kinoko Research Center Foundation, Tottori, Japan.
TMW	Technische Mikrobiologie Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Lehrstuhl für Technische Mikrobiologie, Freising, Germany.
TRTC	Royal Ontario Museum Fungarium, Toronto, Canada.
UAMH	University of Alberta Mold Herbarium and Culture Collection, Edmonton, Canada.
UBC	University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
UBOCC	Université de Bretagne Occidentale Culture Collection, Brest, France.
UC	Upjohn Culture Collection, The Upjohn Co. Kalamazoo, MI, USA.
UCCCB	University of Coimbra Bacteria Culture Collection, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
UCD	Phaff Yeast Culture Collection, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
UCL	Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
UCM	Ukrainian Collection of Microorganisms, Zabolotny Institute of Microbiology and Virology, Kiev, Ukraine.
UNIQEM	Unique and Extremophilic Microorganisms Collection of Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology RAS, Moscow, Russia.
UNSW	University of New South Wales Culture Collection, The Culture Collection, School of Microbiology and Immunology, University of NSW, NSW, Australia.
UPSC	Fungal Culture Collection at the Botanical Museum, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
UQM	See ACM.
USCC	University of Surrey Culture Collection, Department of Microbiology, University of Surrey, Guilford, UK.
USDA	United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, USA.
UWO	University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada.
VIAM	Institute of Applied Microbiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
VKM	All-Russian Collection of Microorganisms, Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia.
VKPM	Russian National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms, Institute of Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms, Moscow, Russia.
VPB	Veterinary Pathology and Bacteriology Collection, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
VPI	Anaerobe Laboratory, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
VTCC	Vietnam Type Culture Collection, Center of Biotechnology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam.
VTT	VTT Culture Collection, VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, Finland.
VUT	School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
WAL	Wadsworth Anaerobe Laboratory, Wadsworth Hospital Center, Veterans Administration, Wilshire and Sawtelle Blvds., Los Angeles, CA, USA.
WB	Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.
WFPL	Western Forest Products Laboratory, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
WSF	Wisconsin Soil Fungi Collection, Madison, WI, USA.
YBLF	Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
YFI	See RIFY.
YIM	Yunnan Institute of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
ZIM	Collection of Industrial Microorganisms, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.