Phylogenetic Diversity of Fungi in the Sea including the Opisthosporidia

Pang, Ka−Lai; Jones, E. B. Gareth

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-29137-6_12

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“…Traditionally, marine fungi included higher (i.e., filamentous fungi in Basidiomycota and Ascomycota) and lower (i.e., zoosporic fungi in Chytridiomycota, Oomycetes, and Labyrinthulomycetes) fungi [ 31 ]. However, the latest update on their phylogeny has grouped them into evolved branches (Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, Blastocladiomycota, and Chytridiomycota) and basal lineages (Cryptomycota, Microsporidia, and Aphelida) [ 32 ]. The first inventory of cultured marine fungi described 209 species of higher filamentous fungi, 177 species of marine-occurring yeasts, and less than 100 species of the lower marine fungi [ 3 ].…”

Section: Culturable and Molecular Diversity Of Marine Fungimentioning

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Diversity, Abundance, and Ecological Roles of Planktonic Fungi in Marine Environments

Sen

Wang

2022

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Fungi are considered terrestrial and oceans are a “fungal desert”. However, with the considerable progress made over past decades, fungi have emerged as morphologically, phylogenetically, and functionally diverse components of the marine water column. Although their communities are influenced by a plethora of environmental factors, the most influential include salinity, temperature, nutrients, and dissolved oxygen, suggesting that fungi respond to local environmental gradients. The biomass carbon of planktonic fungi exhibits spatiotemporal dynamics and can reach up to 1 μg CL−1 of seawater, rivaling bacteria on some occasions, which suggests their active and important role in the water column. In the nutrient-rich coastal water column, there is increasing evidence for their contribution to biogeochemical cycling and food web dynamics on account of their saprotrophic, parasitic, hyper-parasitic, and pathogenic attributes. Conversely, relatively little is known about their function in the open-ocean water column. Interestingly, methodological advances in sequencing and omics approach, the standardization of sequence data analysis tools, and integration of data through network analyses are enhancing our current understanding of the ecological roles of these multifarious and enigmatic members of the marine water column. This review summarizes the current knowledge of the diversity and abundance of planktonic fungi in the world’s oceans and provides an integrated and holistic view of their ecological roles.

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Section: Culturable and Molecular Diversity Of Marine Fungimentioning

confidence: 99%