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Diversity and distribution of fungal communities in the marine sediments of Kongsfjorden, Svalbard (High Arctic)
Zhang, T.; Fei Wang, N.; Zhang, Y.Q.; Liu, H.Y.; Yu, L.Y. (2015). Diversity and distribution of fungal communities in the marine sediments of Kongsfjorden, Svalbard (High Arctic). NPG Scientific Reports 5(14524): 11. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep14524
In: Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group). Nature Publishing Group: London. ISSN 2045-2322; e-ISSN 2045-2322, more
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    Marine/Coastal

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  • Zhang, T.
  • Fei Wang, N.
  • Zhang, Y.Q.
  • Liu, H.Y.
  • Yu, L.Y.

Abstract
    This study assessed the diversity and distribution of fungal communities in eight marine sediments of Kongsfjorden (Svalbard, High Arctic) using 454 pyrosequencing with fungal-specific primers targeting the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of the ribosomal rRNA gene. Sedimentary fungal communities showed high diversity with 42,219 reads belonging to 113 operational taxonomic units (OTUs). Of these OTUs, 62 belonged to the Ascomycota, 26 to Basidiomycota, 2 to Chytridiomycota, 1 to Zygomycota, 1 to Glomeromycota, and 21 to unknown fungi. The major known orders included Hypocreales and Saccharomycetales. The common fungal genera were Pichia, Fusarium, Alternaria, and Malassezia. Interestingly, most fungi occurring in these Arctic sediments may originate from the terrestrial habitats and different basins in Kongsfjorden (i.e., inner basin, central basin, and outer basin) harbor different sedimentary fungal communities. These results suggest the existence of diverse fungal communities in the Arctic marine sediments, which may serve as a useful community model for further ecological and evolutionary study of fungi in the Arctic.

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