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Foliar mycoendophytome of an endemic plant of the Mediterranean biome (Myrtus communis) reveals the dominance of basidiomycete woody saprotrophs
The true myrtle, Myrtus communis, is a small perennial evergreen tree that occurs in Europe, Africa, and Asia with a circum-Mediterranean geographic distribution. Unfortunately, the Mediterranean Forests, where M. communis occurs, are critically endangered and are currently restricted to small fragm...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7719295/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33344092 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10487 |
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author | Vaz, Aline Bruna M. Fonseca, Paula Luize C. Silva, Felipe F. Quintanilha-Peixoto, Gabriel Sampedro, Inmaculada Siles, Jose A. Carmo, Anderson Kato, Rodrigo B. Azevedo, Vasco Badotti, Fernanda Ocampo, Juan A. Rosa, Carlos A. Góes-Neto, Aristóteles |
author_facet | Vaz, Aline Bruna M. Fonseca, Paula Luize C. Silva, Felipe F. Quintanilha-Peixoto, Gabriel Sampedro, Inmaculada Siles, Jose A. Carmo, Anderson Kato, Rodrigo B. Azevedo, Vasco Badotti, Fernanda Ocampo, Juan A. Rosa, Carlos A. Góes-Neto, Aristóteles |
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description | The true myrtle, Myrtus communis, is a small perennial evergreen tree that occurs in Europe, Africa, and Asia with a circum-Mediterranean geographic distribution. Unfortunately, the Mediterranean Forests, where M. communis occurs, are critically endangered and are currently restricted to small fragmented areas in protected conservation units. In the present work, we performed, for the first time, a metabarcoding study on the spatial variation of fungal community structure in the foliar endophytome of this endemic plant of the Mediterranean biome, using bipartite network analysis as a model. The local bipartite network of Myrtus communis individuals and their foliar endophytic fungi is very low connected, with low nestedness, and moderately high specialization and modularity. Similar network patterns were also retrieved in both culture-dependent and amplicon metagenomics of foliar endophytes in distinct arboreal hosts in varied biomes. Furthermore, the majority of putative fungal endophytes species were basidiomycete woody saprotrophs of the orders Polyporales, Agaricales, and Hymenochaetales. Altogether, these findings suggest a possible adaptation of these wood-decaying fungi to cope with moisture limitation and spatial scarcity of their primary substrate (dead wood), which are totally consistent with the predictions of the viaphytism hypothesis that wood-decomposing fungi inhabit the internal leaf tissue of forest trees in order to enhance dispersal to substrates on the forest floor, by using leaves as vectors and as refugia, during periods of environmental stress. |
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spelling | pubmed-77192952020-12-17 Foliar mycoendophytome of an endemic plant of the Mediterranean biome (Myrtus communis) reveals the dominance of basidiomycete woody saprotrophs Vaz, Aline Bruna M. Fonseca, Paula Luize C. Silva, Felipe F. Quintanilha-Peixoto, Gabriel Sampedro, Inmaculada Siles, Jose A. Carmo, Anderson Kato, Rodrigo B. Azevedo, Vasco Badotti, Fernanda Ocampo, Juan A. Rosa, Carlos A. Góes-Neto, Aristóteles PeerJ Biodiversity The true myrtle, Myrtus communis, is a small perennial evergreen tree that occurs in Europe, Africa, and Asia with a circum-Mediterranean geographic distribution. Unfortunately, the Mediterranean Forests, where M. communis occurs, are critically endangered and are currently restricted to small fragmented areas in protected conservation units. In the present work, we performed, for the first time, a metabarcoding study on the spatial variation of fungal community structure in the foliar endophytome of this endemic plant of the Mediterranean biome, using bipartite network analysis as a model. The local bipartite network of Myrtus communis individuals and their foliar endophytic fungi is very low connected, with low nestedness, and moderately high specialization and modularity. Similar network patterns were also retrieved in both culture-dependent and amplicon metagenomics of foliar endophytes in distinct arboreal hosts in varied biomes. Furthermore, the majority of putative fungal endophytes species were basidiomycete woody saprotrophs of the orders Polyporales, Agaricales, and Hymenochaetales. Altogether, these findings suggest a possible adaptation of these wood-decaying fungi to cope with moisture limitation and spatial scarcity of their primary substrate (dead wood), which are totally consistent with the predictions of the viaphytism hypothesis that wood-decomposing fungi inhabit the internal leaf tissue of forest trees in order to enhance dispersal to substrates on the forest floor, by using leaves as vectors and as refugia, during periods of environmental stress. PeerJ Inc. 2020-12-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7719295/ /pubmed/33344092 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10487 Text en © 2020 Vaz et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Biodiversity Vaz, Aline Bruna M. Fonseca, Paula Luize C. Silva, Felipe F. Quintanilha-Peixoto, Gabriel Sampedro, Inmaculada Siles, Jose A. Carmo, Anderson Kato, Rodrigo B. Azevedo, Vasco Badotti, Fernanda Ocampo, Juan A. Rosa, Carlos A. Góes-Neto, Aristóteles Foliar mycoendophytome of an endemic plant of the Mediterranean biome (Myrtus communis) reveals the dominance of basidiomycete woody saprotrophs |
title | Foliar mycoendophytome of an endemic plant of the Mediterranean biome (Myrtus communis) reveals the dominance of basidiomycete woody saprotrophs |
title_full | Foliar mycoendophytome of an endemic plant of the Mediterranean biome (Myrtus communis) reveals the dominance of basidiomycete woody saprotrophs |
title_fullStr | Foliar mycoendophytome of an endemic plant of the Mediterranean biome (Myrtus communis) reveals the dominance of basidiomycete woody saprotrophs |
title_full_unstemmed | Foliar mycoendophytome of an endemic plant of the Mediterranean biome (Myrtus communis) reveals the dominance of basidiomycete woody saprotrophs |
title_short | Foliar mycoendophytome of an endemic plant of the Mediterranean biome (Myrtus communis) reveals the dominance of basidiomycete woody saprotrophs |
title_sort | foliar mycoendophytome of an endemic plant of the mediterranean biome (myrtus communis) reveals the dominance of basidiomycete woody saprotrophs |
topic | Biodiversity |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7719295/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33344092 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10487 |
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