Distribution and Diversity of Planktonic Fungi in the West Pacific Warm Pool

Fungi contribute substantially to biogeochemical cycles of terrestrial and marine habitats by decomposing matter and recycling nutrients. Yet, the diversity of their planktonic forms in the open ocean is poorly described. In this study, culture-independent and molecular approaches were applied to in...

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Main Authors:	Wang, Xin, Singh, Purnima, Gao, Zheng, Zhang, Xiaobo, Johnson, Zackary I., Wang, Guangyi
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4081592/

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spelling	pubmed-40815922014-07-10 Distribution and Diversity of Planktonic Fungi in the West Pacific Warm Pool Wang, Xin Singh, Purnima Gao, Zheng Zhang, Xiaobo Johnson, Zackary I. Wang, Guangyi Research Article Fungi contribute substantially to biogeochemical cycles of terrestrial and marine habitats by decomposing matter and recycling nutrients. Yet, the diversity of their planktonic forms in the open ocean is poorly described. In this study, culture-independent and molecular approaches were applied to investigate fungal diversity and abundance derived from samples collected from a broad swath of the Pacific Warm Pool across major environmental gradients Our results revealed that planktonic fungi were molecularly diverse and their diversity patterns were related to major phytoplankton taxa and various nutrients including nitrate, nitrite, orthophosphate and silicic acid. Over 400 fungal phylotypes were recovered across this region and nearly half of them grouped into two major fungal lineages of Ascomycota and Basidiomycota, whose abundance varied among stations. These results suggest that planktonic fungi are a diverse and integral component of the marine microbial community and should be included in future marine microbial ecosystem models. Public Library of Science 2014-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4081592/ /pubmed/24992154 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101523 Text en © 2014 Wang et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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author	Wang, Xin Singh, Purnima Gao, Zheng Zhang, Xiaobo Johnson, Zackary I. Wang, Guangyi
spellingShingle	Wang, Xin Singh, Purnima Gao, Zheng Zhang, Xiaobo Johnson, Zackary I. Wang, Guangyi Distribution and Diversity of Planktonic Fungi in the West Pacific Warm Pool
author_facet	Wang, Xin Singh, Purnima Gao, Zheng Zhang, Xiaobo Johnson, Zackary I. Wang, Guangyi
author_sort	Wang, Xin
title	Distribution and Diversity of Planktonic Fungi in the West Pacific Warm Pool
title_short	Distribution and Diversity of Planktonic Fungi in the West Pacific Warm Pool
title_full	Distribution and Diversity of Planktonic Fungi in the West Pacific Warm Pool
title_fullStr	Distribution and Diversity of Planktonic Fungi in the West Pacific Warm Pool
title_full_unstemmed	Distribution and Diversity of Planktonic Fungi in the West Pacific Warm Pool
title_sort	distribution and diversity of planktonic fungi in the west pacific warm pool
description	Fungi contribute substantially to biogeochemical cycles of terrestrial and marine habitats by decomposing matter and recycling nutrients. Yet, the diversity of their planktonic forms in the open ocean is poorly described. In this study, culture-independent and molecular approaches were applied to investigate fungal diversity and abundance derived from samples collected from a broad swath of the Pacific Warm Pool across major environmental gradients Our results revealed that planktonic fungi were molecularly diverse and their diversity patterns were related to major phytoplankton taxa and various nutrients including nitrate, nitrite, orthophosphate and silicic acid. Over 400 fungal phylotypes were recovered across this region and nearly half of them grouped into two major fungal lineages of Ascomycota and Basidiomycota, whose abundance varied among stations. These results suggest that planktonic fungi are a diverse and integral component of the marine microbial community and should be included in future marine microbial ecosystem models.
publisher	Public Library of Science
publishDate	2014
url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4081592/
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Distribution and Diversity of Planktonic Fungi in the West Pacific Warm Pool

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