Global diversity and biogeography of the < em > Zostera marina < /em > mycobiome

In this study, we report the results of a global effort to characterize the fungi associated with the seagrass, Zostera marina, across its full biogeographic range. Although we defined a putative global core fungal community, it is apparent from the many fungal sequences and predicted functional guilds that had no matches to existing databases, that general knowledge of seagrass-associated fungi and marine fungi generally is lacking. This work serves as an important foundational step towards future work investigating the functional ramifications of fungi in the marine ecosystem.PMID:33837008 | DOI:10.1128/AEM.02795-20
Source: Applied and Environmental Microbiology - Category: Microbiology Authors: Source Type: research