Bioindication has become an indispensable part of water quality monitoring in most
countries of the world, with the presence and abundance of bioindicator taxa, mostly …

Fungi appear to be rare in marine environments. There are relatively few marine isolates in
culture, and fungal small subunit ribosomal DNA (SSU rDNA) sequences are rarely …

High throughput sequencing technology has great promise for biodiversity studies.
However, an underlying assumption is that the primers used in these studies are universal …

Sequencing of ribosomal DNA clone libraries amplified from environmental DNA has
revolutionized our understanding of microbial eukaryote diversity and ecology. The results of …

We tracked temporal changes in protist diversity at the Long Term Ecological Research
(LTER) station MareChiara in the Gulf of Naples (Mediterranean Sea) on eight dates in 2011 …

Mycologists have been fascinated with marine fungi for more than 70 years now. An
enormous volume of information on marine fungi is presently available. We can now say …

With the delivery of millions of sequence reads in a single experiment, next‐generation
sequencing (NGS) is currently revolutionizing surveys of microorganism diversity. In …

Small cells dominate photosynthetic biomass and primary production in many marine
ecosystems. Traditionally, picoplankton refers to cells≤ 2 μm. Here we extend the size …

"… a number of chapters provide excellent summaries of the modern methods available for
studying fungal ecology, along with those more traditional methods that are still extremely …

Fungi are the principal degraders of biomass in most terrestrial ecosystems. In contrast to
surface environments, deep-sea environmental gene libraries have suggested that fungi are …