Fungal Diversity and Composition of the Continental Solar Saltern in Anana Salt Valley (Spain).

ABSTRACT: The Añana Salt Valley in Spain is an active continental solar saltern formed 220 million years ago. To date, no fungal genomic studies of continental salterns have been published, although DNA metabarcoding has recently expanded researchers' ability to study microbial community structures. Accordingly, the aim of this present study was to evaluate fungal diversity using the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) metabarcoding at different locations along the saltern (springs, ponds, and groundwater) to describe the fungal community of this saline environment. A total of 380 fungal genera were detected. The ubiquity of Saccharomyces was observed in the saltern, although other halotolerant and halophilic fungi like Wallemia, Cladosporium, and Trimmatostroma were also d

SUBMITTER: Azpiazu-Muniozguren M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8703443 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature