Diversity of microfungi in ornithogenic soils from Beaufort Island, continental Antarctic
This paper presents the results of a biodiversity study of microfungi in ornithogenic soils from Beaufort Island (Ross Sea, continental Antarctic). During the 2004/05 austral sum-mer, we sampled a wide range of soil habitats from an abandoned penguin rookeries to examine the biodiversity of soil mic...
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crmasarykunivpr:10.5817/cpr2013-2-15 2024-10-06T13:44:05+00:00 Diversity of microfungi in ornithogenic soils from Beaufort Island, continental Antarctic Alias, Siti Aisyah Smykla, Jerzy Ming, Chin Yoon Rizman-Idid, Mohammed Convey, Peter 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cpr2013-2-15 https://journals.muni.cz/CPR/article/viewFile/12836/11168 unknown Masaryk University Press http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 Czech Polar Reports volume 3, issue 2, page 144-156 ISSN 1805-0697 1805-0689 journal-article 2013 crmasarykunivpr https://doi.org/10.5817/cpr2013-2-15 2024-09-12T04:57:19Z This paper presents the results of a biodiversity study of microfungi in ornithogenic soils from Beaufort Island (Ross Sea, continental Antarctic). During the 2004/05 austral sum-mer, we sampled a wide range of soil habitats from an abandoned penguin rookeries to examine the biodiversity of soil microfungi. Beaufort Island is predominantly ice and snow covered, isolated, difficult to access and known to have been visited only infre-quently. Warcup's soil plating method was used for fungal cultivation. A total of ten fungal taxa were isolated, consisting of seven ascomycetes, two anamorphic fungi and one yeast. In terms of their thermal classes, a total of four psychrophilic, five psychro-tolerant and 1 mesophilic fungi were isolated. Thelebolus microsporus, Geomyces sp. and Thelebolus sp. were the most common isolated fungi. Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) and 18S rDNA sequences were obtained from 17 fungal isolates, confirming their identification as Thelebolus microsporus, Thelebolus sp., Phoma herbarum and Geo-myces sp. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Beaufort Island Ross Sea Munipress - Masaryk University Press Antarctic Austral Beaufort Island ENVELOPE(166.833,166.833,-76.933,-76.933) Ross Sea Czech Polar Reports 3 2 144 156 |
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This paper presents the results of a biodiversity study of microfungi in ornithogenic soils from Beaufort Island (Ross Sea, continental Antarctic). During the 2004/05 austral sum-mer, we sampled a wide range of soil habitats from an abandoned penguin rookeries to examine the biodiversity of soil microfungi. Beaufort Island is predominantly ice and snow covered, isolated, difficult to access and known to have been visited only infre-quently. Warcup's soil plating method was used for fungal cultivation. A total of ten fungal taxa were isolated, consisting of seven ascomycetes, two anamorphic fungi and one yeast. In terms of their thermal classes, a total of four psychrophilic, five psychro-tolerant and 1 mesophilic fungi were isolated. Thelebolus microsporus, Geomyces sp. and Thelebolus sp. were the most common isolated fungi. Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) and 18S rDNA sequences were obtained from 17 fungal isolates, confirming their identification as Thelebolus microsporus, Thelebolus sp., Phoma herbarum and Geo-myces sp. |
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Alias, Siti Aisyah Smykla, Jerzy Ming, Chin Yoon Rizman-Idid, Mohammed Convey, Peter Diversity of microfungi in ornithogenic soils from Beaufort Island, continental Antarctic |
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Diversity of microfungi in ornithogenic soils from Beaufort Island, continental Antarctic |
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Diversity of microfungi in ornithogenic soils from Beaufort Island, continental Antarctic |
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Diversity of microfungi in ornithogenic soils from Beaufort Island, continental Antarctic |
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Diversity of microfungi in ornithogenic soils from Beaufort Island, continental Antarctic |
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Diversity of microfungi in ornithogenic soils from Beaufort Island, continental Antarctic |
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diversity of microfungi in ornithogenic soils from beaufort island, continental antarctic |
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Antarc* Antarctic Beaufort Island Ross Sea |
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