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Chapter 63. A primer for meta-analysis

3F10-AC72-52D0 | Verónica Ferreira; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Biodiversity of leaf litter fungi in streams along a latitudinal gradient

Global patterns of biodiversity have emerged for soil microorganisms, plants and animals, and the extraordinary significance of microbial functions in ecosystems is also well established. Virtually unknown, however, are largescale patterns of microbial diversity in freshwaters, although these aquatic ecosystems are hotspots of biodiversity and biogeochemical processes. Here we report on the first large-scale st...

Quantitative real-time PCR as a promising tool for the detection and quantifica...

Traditional methods to identify aquatic hyphomycetes rely on the morphology of released conidia, which can lead to misidentifications or underestimates of species richness due to convergent morphological evolution and the presence of non-sporulating mycelia. Molecular methods allow fungal identification irrespective of the presence of conidia or their morphology. As a proof-of-concept, we established a quantita...

Taxa-area relationship of aquatic fungi on deciduous leaves

One of the fundamental patterns in macroecology is the increase in the number of observed taxa with size of sampled area. For microbes, the shape of this relationship remains less clear. The current study assessed the diversity of aquatic fungi, by the traditional approach based on conidial morphology (captures reproducing aquatic hyphomycetes) and next generation sequencing (NGS; captures other fungi as well),...

Biogeography of aquatic hyphomycetes: current knowledge and future perspectives

Since Ingold’s (1942) initial description, mycologists have been interested in deciphering global distribution patterns of aquatic hyphomycetes, a group of fungi that play a key role in plant-litter decomposition in freshwaters. However, many questions remain largely unanswered. In this review, we used distribution data of morphospecies from studies throughout the world in an attempt to better understand the ma...

Some new DNA barcodes of aquatic hyphomycete species

Aquatic hyphomycetes play a key role in organic matter processing in freshwaters. Traditionally, species have been identified through the morphology of their conidia, but mycelia can fail to sporulate, making aquatic hyphomycetes a group where DNA barcoding is crucial. We generated ITS barcodes for nine aquatic hyphomycetes without published ITS sequences that, together with all published sequences, were used t...

Stream-dwelling fungal decomposer communities along a gradient of eutrophicatio...

Microbial decomposers, especially a fungal group called aquatic hyphomycetes, play a critical role in processing plant litter in freshwaters by increasing its palatability to invertebrate shredders. Traditionally, communities of aquatic hyphomycetes have been assessed through the identification of spores, which misses non-sporulating taxa. Among new technologies, 454 pyrosequencing stands out as most promising ...

A decade's perspective on the impact of DNA sequencing on aquatic hyphomycete r...

A decade has passed since the first DNA sequences of aquatic hyphomycete species have become available. They have illuminated aspects of their phylogeny and evolution that were inaccessible by conventional methods. Here we present examples of how the resulting information has modified our knowledge of aquatic hyphomycetes. Generating more and better DNA sequence data will continue to expand the range of questio...

Preliminary Insights into the phylogeography of six aquatic hyphomycete species

Biogeography of aquatic fungi: preliminary conclusions