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Distinct fungal communities associated with different organs of the mangrove Sonneratia alba in the Malay Peninsula
Mangrove forests are key tropical marine ecosystems that are rich in fungi, but our understanding of fungal communities associated with mangrove trees and their various organs remains limited because much of the diversity lies within the microbiome. In this study, we investigated the fungal communit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7493156/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32974121 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43008-020-00042-y |
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author | Lee, Nicole Li Ying Huang, Danwei Quek, Zheng Bin Randolph Lee, Jen Nie Wainwright, Benjamin J. |
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description | Mangrove forests are key tropical marine ecosystems that are rich in fungi, but our understanding of fungal communities associated with mangrove trees and their various organs remains limited because much of the diversity lies within the microbiome. In this study, we investigated the fungal communities associated with the mangrove tree Sonneratia alba throughout Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. At each sampling location, we collected leaves, fruits, pneumatophores and sediment samples and performed amplicon sequencing of the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer 1 to characterise the associated communities. Results show distinct fungal communities at each sampled location with further differentiation according to the plant part. We find a significant distance decay of similarity, particularly for sediment samples due to the greater variability of sediment environments relative to the more stable fungal habitats provided by living plant organs. We are able to assign taxonomy to the majority of sequences from leaves and fruits, but a much larger portion of the sequences recovered from pneumatophores and sediment samples could not be identified. This pattern underscores the limited mycological research performed in marine environments and demonstrates the need for a concerted research effort on multiple species to fully characterise the coastal microbiome and its role in the functioning of marine ecosystems. |
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spelling | pubmed-74931562020-09-23 Distinct fungal communities associated with different organs of the mangrove Sonneratia alba in the Malay Peninsula Lee, Nicole Li Ying Huang, Danwei Quek, Zheng Bin Randolph Lee, Jen Nie Wainwright, Benjamin J. IMA Fungus Research Mangrove forests are key tropical marine ecosystems that are rich in fungi, but our understanding of fungal communities associated with mangrove trees and their various organs remains limited because much of the diversity lies within the microbiome. In this study, we investigated the fungal communities associated with the mangrove tree Sonneratia alba throughout Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. At each sampling location, we collected leaves, fruits, pneumatophores and sediment samples and performed amplicon sequencing of the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer 1 to characterise the associated communities. Results show distinct fungal communities at each sampled location with further differentiation according to the plant part. We find a significant distance decay of similarity, particularly for sediment samples due to the greater variability of sediment environments relative to the more stable fungal habitats provided by living plant organs. We are able to assign taxonomy to the majority of sequences from leaves and fruits, but a much larger portion of the sequences recovered from pneumatophores and sediment samples could not be identified. This pattern underscores the limited mycological research performed in marine environments and demonstrates the need for a concerted research effort on multiple species to fully characterise the coastal microbiome and its role in the functioning of marine ecosystems. BioMed Central 2020-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7493156/ /pubmed/32974121 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43008-020-00042-y Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Research Lee, Nicole Li Ying Huang, Danwei Quek, Zheng Bin Randolph Lee, Jen Nie Wainwright, Benjamin J. Distinct fungal communities associated with different organs of the mangrove Sonneratia alba in the Malay Peninsula |
title | Distinct fungal communities associated with different organs of the mangrove Sonneratia alba in the Malay Peninsula |
title_full | Distinct fungal communities associated with different organs of the mangrove Sonneratia alba in the Malay Peninsula |
title_fullStr | Distinct fungal communities associated with different organs of the mangrove Sonneratia alba in the Malay Peninsula |
title_full_unstemmed | Distinct fungal communities associated with different organs of the mangrove Sonneratia alba in the Malay Peninsula |
title_short | Distinct fungal communities associated with different organs of the mangrove Sonneratia alba in the Malay Peninsula |
title_sort | distinct fungal communities associated with different organs of the mangrove sonneratia alba in the malay peninsula |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7493156/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32974121 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43008-020-00042-y |
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