Fungi Sailing the Arctic Ocean Speciose Communities in North Atlantic Driftwood as Revealed by High-Throughput Amplicon Sequencing

• Published in: Microbial ecology Vol. 72; no. 2; pp. 295 - 304
• Main Authors: Rämä, Teppo, Davey, Marie L., Nordén, Jenni, Halvorsen, Rune, Blaalid, Rakel, Mathiassen, Geir H., Alsos, Inger G., Kauserud, Håvard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer Science + Business Media 01.08.2016; Springer US; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adaptation, Physiological; Aquatic habitats; Arctic region; Ascomycetes; Ascomycota; Ascomycota - classification; Ascomycota - isolation & purification; Basidiomycetes; Basidiomycota; Basidiomycota - classification; Basidiomycota - isolation & purification; Biodiversity; Biomedical and Life Sciences; cold; Community composition; community structure; Computational Biology; DNA; DNA, Fungal - genetics; Driftwood; Ecology; Ecosystem; fungal communities; FUNGAL MICROBIOLOGY; fungi; Geoecology/Natural Processes; habitats; high-throughput nucleotide sequencing; internal transcribed spacers; Life Sciences; Marine environment; Microbial Ecology; Microbiology; Multivariate Analysis; Nature Conservation; Oceans; Oceans and Seas; Sequence Analysis, DNA; sequence homology; Species Specificity; Water Microbiology; Water Quality/Water Pollution; Wood - microbiology; Arctic Ocean; AN, North Atlantic; PN, Arctic Ocean; Arctic region; Marine wooden substrates; 454 sequencing; Metabarcoding; Marine fungi; Biosystematics; Community ecology; Diversity

High amounts of driftwood sail across the oceans and provide habitat for organisms tolerating the rough and saline environment. Fungi have adapted to the extremely cold and saline conditions which driftwood faces in the high north. For the first time, we applied high-throughput sequencing to fungi r...