Seagrass-associated fungal communities show distance decay of similarity that has implications for seagrass management and restoration.

ABSTRACT: Marine fungal biodiversity remains vastly understudied, and even less is known of their biogeography and the processes responsible for driving these distributions in marine environments. We investigated the fungal communities associated with the seagrass Enhalus acoroides collected from Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia to test the hypothesis that fungal communities are homogeneous throughout the study area. Seagrass samples were separated into different structures (leaves, roots, and rhizomes), and a sediment sample was collected next to each plant. Amplicon sequencing of the fungal internal transcribed spacer 1 and subsequent analysis revealed significant differences in fungal communities collected from different locations and different structures. We show a significant pattern of

SUBMITTER: Wainwright BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6802368 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature