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Fungi associated with mesophotic macroalgae from the ‘Au‘au Channel, west Maui are differentiated by host and overlap terrestrial communities
- Source :
- PeerJ, PeerJ, Vol 5, p e3532 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- PeerJ, 2017.
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Abstract
- Mesophotic coral ecosystems are an almost entirely unexplored and undocumented environment that likely contains vast reservoirs of undescribed biodiversity. Twenty-four macroalgae samples, representing four genera, were collected from a Hawaiian mesophotic reef at water depths between 65 and 86 m in the ‘Au‘au Channel, Maui, Hawai‘i. Algal tissues were surveyed for the presence and diversity of fungi by sequencing the ITS1 gene using Illumina technology. Fungi from these algae were then compared to previous fungal surveys conducted in Hawaiian terrestrial ecosystems. Twenty-seven percent of the OTUs present on the mesophotic coral ecosystem samples were shared between the marine and terrestrial environment. Subsequent analyses indicated that host species of algae significantly differentiate fungal community composition. This work demonstrates yet another understudied habitat with a moderate diversity of fungi that should be considered when estimating global fungal diversity.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine
Coral
Biodiversity
lcsh:Medicine
Marine Biology
Mycology
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Hawaii
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
03 medical and health sciences
Algae
Mesophotic coral ecosytems
Ecosystem
14. Life underwater
Reef
Connectivity
geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
Marine
biology
Host (biology)
Ecology
General Neuroscience
lcsh:R
fungi
Fungi
technology, industry, and agriculture
General Medicine
15. Life on land
biology.organism_classification
030104 developmental biology
Habitat
Terrestrial ecosystem
ITS
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
geographic locations
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21678359
- Volume :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PeerJ
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1bed28b673ea4b411a1a74bf54aff8d2
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3532