Fungi, bacteria and oomycota opportunistically isolated from the seagrass, Zostera marina.

PloS One
Cassandra L Ettinger, Jonathan A Eisen

Abstract

Fungi in the marine environment are often neglected as a research topic, despite that fungi having critical roles on land as decomposers, pathogens or endophytes. Here we used culture-dependent methods to survey the fungi associated with the seagrass, Zostera marina, also obtaining bacteria and oomycete isolates in the process. A total of 108 fungi, 40 bacteria and 2 oomycetes were isolated. These isolates were then taxonomically identified using a combination of molecular and phylogenetic methods. The majority of the fungal isolates were classified as belonging to the classes Eurotiomycetes, Dothideomycetes, and Sordariomycetes. Most fungal isolates were habitat generalists like Penicillium sp. and Cladosporium sp., but we also cultured a diverse set of rare taxa including possible habitat specialists like Colletotrichum sp. which may preferentially associate with Z. marina leaf tissue. Although the bulk of bacterial isolates were identified as being from known ubiquitous marine lineages, we also obtained several Actinomycetes isolates and a Phyllobacterium sp. We identified two oomycetes, another understudied group of marine microbial eukaryotes, as Halophytophthora sp. which may be opportunistic pathogens or saprophytes of Z...Continue Reading

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Apr 11, 2021·Applied and Environmental Microbiology·Cassandra L EttingerJonathan A Eisen
Aug 6, 2021·Annual Review of Microbiology·Fouad El BaidouriAnthony S Amend
Oct 5, 2021·Frontiers in Microbiology·Marino KorlevićMirjana Najdek

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Datasets Mentioned

BETA
CLE116
MN544009

Methods Mentioned

BETA
fungal collection
PCR
Assay
amplicon sequencing
fungal

Software Mentioned

MrBayes
MAFFT
SILVA Alignment , Classification and Tree ( ACT )
JalView
Dryad
seqtrace
Adobe Photoshop
BLAST
CIPRES Science Gateway
ggplot2

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