Fungal diversity in a sediment core from climate change impacted Boeckella Lake, Hope Bay, north-eastern Antarctic Peninsula assessed using metabarcoding

Rosa, Luiz Henrique; Ogaki, Mayara Baptistucci; Lirio, Juan Manuel; Vieira, Rosemary; Coria, Silvia H.; Pinto, Otávio Henrique Bezerra; Carvalho-Silva, Micheline; Convey, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8497-9903; Rosa, Carlos Augusto; Câmara, Paulo Eduardo Aguiar Saraiva. 2022 Fungal diversity in a sediment core from climate change impacted Boeckella Lake, Hope Bay, north-eastern Antarctic Peninsula assessed using metabarcoding. Extremophiles, 26 (16). 10, pp. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-022-01264-1

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Abstract/Summary

We studied the fungal DNA present in a lake sediment core obtained from Trinity Peninsula, Hope Bay, north-eastern Antarctic Peninsula, using metabarcoding through high-throughput sequencing (HTS). Sequences obtained were assigned to 146 amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) primarily representing unknown fungi, followed by the phyla Ascomycota, Rozellomycota, Basidiomycota, Chytridiomycota and Mortierellomycota. The most abundant taxa were assigned to Fungal sp., Pseudeurotium hygrophilum, Rozellomycota sp. 1, Pseudeurotiaceae sp. 1 and Chytridiomycota sp. 1. The majority of the DNA reads, representing 40 ASVs, could only be assigned at higher taxonomic levels and may represent taxa not currently included in the sequence databases consulted and/or be previously undescribed fungi. Different sections of the core were characterized by high sequence diversity, richness and moderate ecological dominance indices. The assigned diversity was dominated by cosmopolitan cold-adapted fungi, including known saprotrophic, plant and animal pathogenic and symbiotic taxa. Despite the overall dominance of Ascomycota and Basidiomycota and psychrophilic Mortierellomycota, members of the cryptic phyla Rozellomycota and Chytridiomycota were also detected in abundance. As Boeckella Lake may cease to exist in approaching decades due the effects of local climatic changes, it also an important location for the study of the impacts of these changes on Antarctic microbial diversity.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-022-01264-1
Additional Keywords:	Antarctica; ecology; fungi; extremophile; taxonomy
Date made live:	09 May 2022 09:10 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/531475

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-022-01264-1

Additional Keywords:

Antarctica; ecology; fungi; extremophile; taxonomy

Date made live:

09 May 2022 09:10 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/531475