“…Also, most of them took longer time to sporulate, which indicated that the presence of terpenes did not make the environment less propitious for growth, but led the strains to a longer lag phase. Martins et al, (2005) reported the importance to compare the development of fungi in different environments, because the fungi reacted differently to stimulus induced by the composition of the medium. Thus, it is possible to infer the importance of the results obtained from the behavior of microorganisms observed during the selection.…”