Integrating chytrid fungal parasites into plankton ecology : research gaps and needs

• Published in: Environmental Microbiology
• Main Authors: Frenken, Thijs, Alacid, Elisabet, Berger, Stella A., Bourne, Elizabeth C., Gerphagnon, Mélanie, Grossart, Hans-Peter, Gsell, Alena S., Ibelings, Bas W., Kagami, Maiko, Kuepper, Frithjof C, Letcher, Peter M., Loyau, Adeline, Miki, Takeshi, Nejstgaard, Jens C., Rasconi, Serena, Reñé, Albert, Rohrlack, Thomas, Rojas-Jimenez, Keilor, Schmeller, Dirk S., Scholz, Bettina, Seto, Kensuke, Sime-Ngando, Télesphore, Sukenik, Assaf, Van de Waal, Dedmer B., Van den Wyngaert, Silke, Van Donk, Ellen, Wolinska, Justyna, Wurzbacher, Christian, Agha, Ramsy
• Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen.Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being; Aquatic systems; emerging infectious disease; energy and organic matter cycling; food web; fungal parasites; host parasite interactions; QR Microbiology; QR; Akureyri; Iceland; University of Akureyri
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2164/9083; https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13827

The authors want to thank all participants of the 1st Plankton Chytridiomycosis Workshop (PCW) in Berlin, Germany (2015) and the 2nd PCW in Skagaströnd, Iceland (2016) for valuable discussions prior to the writing of this paper. The Leibniz Association is acknowledged for supporting the 1st PCW in Berlin (Germany) and the University of Akureyri and the Sóknaráætlun Nordurlands Vestra for their financial support to the 2nd PCW in Skagaströnd (Iceland). HPG and ECB were supported by the Leibniz Pakt/SAW-project 'MycoLink' (Pakt/SAW-2014-IGB-1). ASG was funded by the NWO (016.Veni.171.063). SVdW and MG were each funded by the IGB fellowship programme. RA was supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Peer reviewed