Mycobiome diversity: high-throughput sequencing and identification of fungi

RH Nilsson, S Anslan, M Bahram… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Fungi are major ecological players in both terrestrial and aquatic environments by cycling
organic matter and channelling nutrients across trophic levels. High-throughput sequencing …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental DNA metabarcoding for benthic monitoring: A review of sediment sampling and DNA extraction methods

J Pawlowski, K Bruce, K Panksep, FI Aguirre… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding (parallel sequencing of DNA/RNA for
identification of whole communities within a targeted group) is revolutionizing the field of …

Fungi in aquatic ecosystems

HP Grossart, S Van den Wyngaert, M Kagami… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Fungi are phylogenetically and functionally diverse ubiquitous components of almost all
ecosystems on Earth, including aquatic environments stretching from high montane lakes …

Microplastics alter composition of fungal communities in aquatic ecosystems

MT Kettner, K Rojas‐Jimenez… - Environmental …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Despite increasing concerns about microplastic (MP) pollution in aquatic ecosystems, there
is insufficient knowledge on how MP affect fungal communities. In this study, we explored …

Seasonality of parasitic and saprotrophic zoosporic fungi: linking sequence data to ecological traits

S Van den Wyngaert, L Ganzert, K Seto… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Zoosporic fungi of the phylum Chytridiomycota (chytrids) regularly dominate pelagic fungal
communities in freshwater and marine environments. Their lifestyles range from obligate …

PCR and omics based techniques to study the diversity, ecology and biology of anaerobic fungi: insights, challenges and opportunities

JE Edwards, RJ Forster, TM Callaghan… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Anaerobic fungi (phylum Neocallimastigomycota) are common inhabitants of the digestive
tract of mammalian herbivores, and in the rumen, can account for up to 20% of the microbial …

Long‐read DNA metabarcoding of ribosomal RNA in the analysis of fungi from aquatic environments

F Heeger, EC Bourne, C Baschien… - Molecular Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
DNA metabarcoding is widely used to study prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial diversity.
Technological constraints limit most studies to marker lengths below 600 base pairs (bp) …

Introducing ribosomal tandem repeat barcoding for fungi

C Wurzbacher, E Larsson… - Molecular Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Sequence comparison and analysis of the various ribosomal genetic markers are the
dominant molecular methods for identification and description of fungi. However, new …

Interactive effects on organic matter processing from soils to the ocean: are priming effects relevant in aquatic ecosystems?

MM Bengtsson, K Attermeyer, N Catalán - Hydrobiologia, 2018 - Springer
Organic matter (OM) is degraded during transport from soils to oceans. However, there are
spatial and temporal variabilities along the aquatic continuum, which hamper the …

Fungal and bacterial diversity of Svalbard subglacial ice

L Perini, C Gostinčar, N Gunde-Cimerman - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The composition of fungal and bacterial communities in three polythermal glaciers and
associated aquatic environments in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard was analysed using a …