Fungi in the Antarctic cryosphere: Using DNA metabarcoding to reveal fungal diversity in glacial ice from the Antarctic Peninsula region

de Menezes, Graciéle Cunha Alves; Câmara, Paulo E.A.S.; Pinto, Otávio Henrique Bezerra; Convey, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8497-9903; Carvalho-Silva, Micheline; Simões, Jefferson Cardia; Rosa, Carlos Augusto; Rosa, Luiz Henrique. 2022 Fungi in the Antarctic cryosphere: Using DNA metabarcoding to reveal fungal diversity in glacial ice from the Antarctic Peninsula region. Microbial Ecology, 83. 647-657. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-021-01792-x

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Abstract/Summary

We assessed fungal diversity present in glacial from the Antarctic Peninsula using DNA metabarcoding through high-throughput sequencing (HTS). We detected a total of 353,879 fungal DNA reads, representing 94 genera and 184 taxa, in glacial ice fragments obtained from seven sites in the north-west Antarctic Peninsula and South Shetland Islands. The phylum Ascomycota dominated the sequence diversity, followed by Basidiomycota and Mortierellomycota. Penicillium sp., Cladosporium sp., Penicillium atrovenetum, Epicoccum nigrum, Pseudogymnoascus sp. 1, Pseudogymnoascus sp. 2, Phaeosphaeriaceae sp. and Xylaria grammica were the most dominant taxa, respectively. However, the majority of the fungal diversity comprised taxa of rare and intermediate relative abundance, predominately known mesophilic fungi. High indices of diversity and richness were calculated, along with moderate index of dominance, which varied among the different sampling sites. Only 26 (14%) of the total fungal taxa detected were present at all sampling sites. The identified diversity was dominated by saprophytic taxa, followed by known plant and animal pathogens and a low number of symbiotic fungi. Our data suggest that Antarctic glacial ice may represent a hotspot of previously unreported fungal diversity; however, further studies are required to integrate HTS and culture approaches to confirm viability of the taxa detected.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-021-01792-x
ISSN:	0095-3628
Additional Keywords:	Antarctica; cryosphere; ice; fungi, metabarcoding
Date made live:	07 Jul 2021 11:31 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/529466

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-021-01792-x

ISSN:

0095-3628

Additional Keywords:

Antarctica; cryosphere; ice; fungi, metabarcoding

Date made live:

07 Jul 2021 11:31 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/529466