The diversity of marine fungi is reviewed based on new data on their occurrence on various
substrata, unexplored habitats especially in the tropics, undescribed species, endophytic …

Marine fungi have been widely studied over the past millennium and considerable progress
has been made in documenting their phylogeny, biodiversity, ultrastructure, ecology …

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 …

A comprehensive classification of the filamentous marine fungi is outlined, with reference to
recent molecular phylogenetic analyses. The classification includes 530 species (in 321 …

Seagrasses are flowering plants inhabiting coastal and marine environments, with a
worldwide distribution. They serve as feeding, breeding and nursery grounds for …

Fungi in gorgonians are now known to cause gorgonian diseases, but little attention has
been paid to the nature of fungal communities associated with gorgonians. The diversity of …

Fungi cause diseases in a variety of marine animal hosts. After a thorough review of
published literature, we identified 225 fungal species causing infections of 193 animal …

Fungi in coral reefs exist as endoliths, endobionts, saprotrophs and as pathogens. Although
algal and fungal endoliths in corals were described way back in 1973, their role in …

Most of our limited knowledge of microbes in corals comes from stony and soft corals; the
microbial diversity of black corals is still poorly understood. Microbial diversity of the South …

There are many definitions of endophytes, endophytic fungi or fungal endophytes, as
recently reviewed by Hyde and Soytong (2008). Among the definitions proposed, the most …