Global diversity and geography of planktonic marine fungi

BT Hassett, TR Vonnahme, X Peng, EBG Jones… - Botanica …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Growing interest in understanding the relevance of marine fungi to food webs,
biogeochemical cycling, and biological patterns necessitates establishing a context for …

Group 2i Isochrysidales produce characteristic alkenones reflecting sea ice distribution

KJ Wang, Y Huang, M Majaneva, ST Belt… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Alkenones are biomarkers produced solely by algae in the order Isochrysidales that have
been used to reconstruct sea surface temperature (SST) since the 1980s. However …

Dinoflagellate hosts determine the community structure of marine Chytridiomycota: Demonstration of their prominent interactions

AD Fernández‐Valero, A Reñé… - Environmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The interactions of parasitic fungi with their phytoplankton hosts in the marine environment
are mostly unknown. In this study, we evaluated the diversity of Chytridiomycota in …

Sea ice as habitat for microalgae, bacteria, virus, fungi, meio-and macrofauna: A review of an extreme environment

LC Lund-Hansen, R Gradinger, B Hassett… - Polar Biology, 2024 - Springer
The novel concept of the review is a focus on the organisms living in the sea ice and what
mechanisms they have developed for their existence. The review describes the physical …

Group 2i Isochrysidales thrive in marine and lacustrine systems with ice cover

KJ Wang, Y Huang, T Kartzinel, M Majaneva… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Global warming is causing rapid changes to the cryosphere. Predicting the future trajectory
of the cryosphere requires quantitative reconstruction of its past variations. A recently …

Stable seasonal and annual alpha diversity of benthic diatom communities despite changing community composition

L Virta, J Soininen, A Norkko - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The global biodiversity loss has raised interest in the different facets of diversity, and the
importance of diversity for ecosystem functions has been recognized. However, our …

[HTML][HTML] Newly identified diversity of Dinomycetaceae (Rhizophydiales, Chytridiomycota), a family of fungal parasites of marine dinoflagellates

AD Fernández-Valero, SA Karpov, N Sampedro… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
We identified two new parasite species of Chytridiomycota isolated during blooms of the
dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum in the coastal Mediterranean Sea. Light and electron …

Information Scale Correction for Varying Length Amplicons Improves Eukaryotic Microbiome Data Integration

T Zhou, F Zhao, K Xu - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
The integration and reanalysis of big data provide valuable insights into microbiome studies.
However, the significant difference in information scale between amplicon data poses a key …

Dynamics of cold-water dinoflagellates in the northern Baltic Sea based on 18S rRNA gene metabarcoding

M Majaneva, S Jääskeläinen, R Autio, J Blomster… - Marine Biodiversity, 2024 - Springer
Cold-water dinoflagellates contribute significantly to spring blooms in temperate coastal
waters. In the northern Baltic Sea, Peridiniella catenata, Apocalathium malmogiense …

Co-occurrences enhance our understanding of aquatic fungal metacommunity assembly and reveal potential host–parasite interactions

M Vass, K Eriksson, U Carlsson-Graner… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Our knowledge of aquatic fungal communities, their assembly, distributions and ecological
roles in marine ecosystems is scarce. Hence, we aimed to investigate fungal …