Metabarcoding assessment of fungal diversity in brown algae and sponges of Mauritius.

ABSTRACT: Marine fungi are largely associated with second most inhabitants of the marine ecosystem such as sponges and algae. They are important colonizers and play vital ecological roles, such as nutrient cycling, organic matter decomposition, and symbiosis with other organisms. High throughput sequencing methods have been used successfully to reveal unknown fungal communities associated with a number of hosts particularly in the marine environment. However, the diversity of marine fungi associated with sponges and brown algae in Mauritius remains largely unknown. Traditional methods based on culturing do not provide reliable estimate of fungal diversity as only those that are able to grow under laboratory conditions are dominant; in addition, a large proportion of fungi, cultured in vitro r

SUBMITTER: Wong Chin JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9649896 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature