Uncovering Diversity within the Glomeromycota: Novel Clades, Family Distributions, and Land Use Sensitivity.

ABSTRACT: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF, phylum Glomeromycota) are essential to plant community diversity and ecosystem functioning. However, increasing human land use represents a major threat to native AMF globally. Characterizing the loss of AMF diversity remains challenging because many taxa are undescribed, resulting in poor documentation of their biogeography and family-level disturbance sensitivity. We survey sites representing native and human-altered ecosystems across the American continents-in Alaska, Kansas, and Brazil-to shed light on these gaps. Using a recently developed pipeline for phylogenetic placement of eDNA, we find evidence for three putative novel clades within the Glomeromycota, sister to Entrophosporaceae, Glomeraceae, and Archaeosporaceae, with evid

SUBMITTER: Delavaux CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11711058 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature