Fungal diversity and community structure from coastal and barrier island beaches in the United States Gulf of Mexico

Abstract Fungi are an important and understudied component of coastal biomes including sand beaches. Basic biogeographic diversity data are lacking for marine fungi in most parts of the world, despite their important role in decomposition. We examined intertidal fungal communities at several United...

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Autores principales:	Allison K. Walker, Brent M. Robicheau
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:a864cba0fd5543649bc53e802e2ea7172021-12-02T14:04:00ZFungal diversity and community structure from coastal and barrier island beaches in the United States Gulf of Mexico10.1038/s41598-021-81688-52045-2322https://doaj.org/article/a864cba0fd5543649bc53e802e2ea7172021-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81688-5https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Fungi are an important and understudied component of coastal biomes including sand beaches. Basic biogeographic diversity data are lacking for marine fungi in most parts of the world, despite their important role in decomposition. We examined intertidal fungal communities at several United States (US) Gulf of Mexico sand beach sites using morphology and ITS rDNA terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analyses. Fungal biogeographical patterns from sand beach detritus (wood, emergent plant [mangrove/ saltmarsh], or marine [algae, seagrass]) from Florida, Mississippi, and Texas were investigated using diversity indices and multivariate analyses. Fungal diversity increased with decreasing latitude at our study sites. Substrate type strongly influenced fungal community structure in this region, with different fungal communities on detrital marine versus emergent substrates, as well as detrital marine versus wood substrates. Thirty-five fungi were identified morphologically, including new regional and host records. Of these, 86% were unique to an individual collection (i.e., sampled once from one site). Rarefaction curves from pooled morphological data from all sites estimate the number of samples required to characterize the mycota of each substrate. As sampling occurred before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (April-2010), our findings contribute pre-oil spill sand beach biodiversity data and marine fungal distribution trends within this economically important oceanographic region.Allison K. WalkerBrent M. RobicheauNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Allison K. Walker Brent M. Robicheau Fungal diversity and community structure from coastal and barrier island beaches in the United States Gulf of Mexico
description	Abstract Fungi are an important and understudied component of coastal biomes including sand beaches. Basic biogeographic diversity data are lacking for marine fungi in most parts of the world, despite their important role in decomposition. We examined intertidal fungal communities at several United States (US) Gulf of Mexico sand beach sites using morphology and ITS rDNA terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analyses. Fungal biogeographical patterns from sand beach detritus (wood, emergent plant [mangrove/ saltmarsh], or marine [algae, seagrass]) from Florida, Mississippi, and Texas were investigated using diversity indices and multivariate analyses. Fungal diversity increased with decreasing latitude at our study sites. Substrate type strongly influenced fungal community structure in this region, with different fungal communities on detrital marine versus emergent substrates, as well as detrital marine versus wood substrates. Thirty-five fungi were identified morphologically, including new regional and host records. Of these, 86% were unique to an individual collection (i.e., sampled once from one site). Rarefaction curves from pooled morphological data from all sites estimate the number of samples required to characterize the mycota of each substrate. As sampling occurred before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (April-2010), our findings contribute pre-oil spill sand beach biodiversity data and marine fungal distribution trends within this economically important oceanographic region.
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title	Fungal diversity and community structure from coastal and barrier island beaches in the United States Gulf of Mexico
title_short	Fungal diversity and community structure from coastal and barrier island beaches in the United States Gulf of Mexico
title_full	Fungal diversity and community structure from coastal and barrier island beaches in the United States Gulf of Mexico
title_fullStr	Fungal diversity and community structure from coastal and barrier island beaches in the United States Gulf of Mexico
title_full_unstemmed	Fungal diversity and community structure from coastal and barrier island beaches in the United States Gulf of Mexico
title_sort	fungal diversity and community structure from coastal and barrier island beaches in the united states gulf of mexico
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publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/a864cba0fd5543649bc53e802e2ea717
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Fungal diversity and community structure from coastal and barrier island beaches in the United States Gulf of Mexico

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