Diversity, distribution and ecology of fungal communities present in Antarctic lake sediments uncovered by DNA metabarcoding

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Láuren Machado Drumond de Souza, Juan Manuel Lirio, Silvia Herminda Coria, Fabyano Alvares Cardoso Lopes, Peter Convey, Micheline Carvalho-Silva, Fábio Soares de Oliveira, Carlos Augusto Rosa, Paulo Eduardo Aguiar Saraiva Câmara, Luiz Henrique Rosa
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Portfolio 2022
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Antarctic; South Shetland Islands; Ross Island; Deception Island; Four Lakes; Antarc*; Antarctica; James Ross Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12290-6; https://doaj.org/article/08ba8de50c9143e88cd45b92e334c724

Abstract We assessed fungal diversity in sediments obtained from four lakes in the South Shetland Islands and James Ross Island, Antarctica, using DNA metabarcoding. We detected 218 amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) dominated by the phyla Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, Mortierellomycota, Mucoromycota an...