TY - JOUR
T1 - Who are the marine fungi?
AU - Cunliffe, Michael
PY - 2022/10/23
Y1 - 2022/10/23
N2 - Fungi are widespread throughout marine habitats. Most
marine fungi are microscopic, either microfungi, yeasts,
or swimming zoospore-producing groups such as the
Chytridiomycota (‘the chytrids’). The macroscopic exceptions are the marine lichens along coastlines. Marine
mushrooms are yet to be discovered. The functional
roles of marine fungi include parasites (e.g., infecting
phytoplankton; Hassett & Gradinger, 2016), saprotrophs
recycling organic matter (e.g., degrading phytoplanktonproduced polysaccharides; Cunliffe et al., 2017) and in
symbiosis with other marine life (e.g., seaweeds;
Bonthond et al., 2022). Here, I briefly summarize my perspective of marine fungi with an emphasis on identity.
Looking into the crystal ball, I see a possible near future
for marine mycology highlighting some conceptual and
technical developments.
AB - Fungi are widespread throughout marine habitats. Most
marine fungi are microscopic, either microfungi, yeasts,
or swimming zoospore-producing groups such as the
Chytridiomycota (‘the chytrids’). The macroscopic exceptions are the marine lichens along coastlines. Marine
mushrooms are yet to be discovered. The functional
roles of marine fungi include parasites (e.g., infecting
phytoplankton; Hassett & Gradinger, 2016), saprotrophs
recycling organic matter (e.g., degrading phytoplanktonproduced polysaccharides; Cunliffe et al., 2017) and in
symbiosis with other marine life (e.g., seaweeds;
Bonthond et al., 2022). Here, I briefly summarize my perspective of marine fungi with an emphasis on identity.
Looking into the crystal ball, I see a possible near future
for marine mycology highlighting some conceptual and
technical developments.
UR - https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/context/bms-research/article/2064/viewcontent/Environmental_20Microbiology_20__202022_20__20Cunliffe_20__20Who_20are_20the_20marine_20fungi.pdf
U2 - 10.1111/1462-2920.16240
DO - 10.1111/1462-2920.16240
M3 - Article
SN - 1462-2912
VL - 0
JO - Environmental Microbiology
JF - Environmental Microbiology
IS - 0
ER -