Mycoloop: chytrids in aquatic food webs

M Kagami, T Miki, G Takimoto - Frontiers in microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Parasites are ecologically significant in various ecosystems through their role in shaping
food web structure, facilitating energy transfer, and controlling disease. Here in this review …

Diversity of entomopathogenic fungi: which groups conquered the insect body?

JPM Araújo, DP Hughes - Advances in genetics, 2016 - Elsevier
The entomopathogenic fungi are organisms that evolved to exploit insects. They comprise a
wide range of morphologically, phylogenetically, and ecologically diverse fungal species …

An online resource for marine fungi

EBG Jones, KL Pang, MA Abdel-Wahab, B Scholz… - Fungal Diversity, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Index Fungorum, Species Fungorum and MycoBank are the key fungal
nomenclature and taxonomic databases that can be sourced to find taxonomic details …

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

T Frenken, E Alacid, SA Berger… - Environmental …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Chytridiomycota, often referred to as chytrids, can be virulent parasites with the potential to
inflict mass mortalities on hosts, causing eg changes in phytoplankton size distributions and …

Novel chytrid lineages dominate fungal sequences in diverse marine and freshwater habitats

AM Comeau, WF Vincent, L Bernier, C Lovejoy - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
In aquatic environments, fungal communities remain little studied despite their taxonomic
and functional diversity. To extend the ecological coverage of this group, we conducted an in …

Multi-year assessment of coastal planktonic fungi reveals environmental drivers of diversity and abundance

JD Taylor, M Cunliffe - The ISME journal, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Mycoplankton have so far been a neglected component of pelagic marine ecosystems,
having been poorly studied relative to other plankton groups. Currently, there is a lack of …

Chytrids dominate arctic marine fungal communities

BT Hassett, R Gradinger - Environmental microbiology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is altering Arctic ecosystem structure by changing weather patterns and
reducing sea ice coverage. These changes are increasing light penetration into the Arctic …

Occurrence and geographical distribution of mangrove fungi

B Devadatha, EBG Jones, KL Pang, MA Abdel-Wahab… - Fungal Diversity, 2021 - Springer
This is a multidimensional review of mangrove fungi occurring as saprobes, pathogens and
endophytes of a wide range of host substrates and those isolated from the water columns …

Fifty years of marine mycology

EBG Jones - Fungal diversity, 2011 - Springer
Marine fungi have been widely studied over the past millennium and considerable progress
has been made in documenting their phylogeny, biodiversity, ultrastructure, ecology …

Zoosporic parasites infecting marine diatoms–a black box that needs to be opened

B Scholz, L Guillou, AV Marano, S Neuhauser… - Fungal ecology, 2016 - Elsevier
Living organisms in aquatic ecosystems are almost constantly confronted by pathogens.
Nevertheless, very little is known about diseases of marine diatoms, the main primary …