Nucleated, usually filamentous, sporebearing organisms devoid of chlorophyll; typically reproducing both sexually and asexually; living as parasites in plants, animals, or other fungi, or as saprobes on plant or animal remains, in aquatic, marine, terrestrial, or subaerial habitats. Yeasts, mildews...
Fungi are major ecological players in both terrestrial and aquatic environments by cycling organic matter and channelling nutrients across trophic levels. High-throughput sequencing (HTS) studies of fungal communities are redrawing the map of the fungal kingdom by hinting at its enormous — and largely...
Aquatic and terrestrial fungiFungal barcodingThe goal of modern taxonomy is to understand the relationships of living organisms in terms of evolutionary descent. Thereby, the relationships between living organisms are understood in terms of nested clades鈥攅very time a speciation event takes place, two...
They are known from both terrestrial and aquatic habitats around the world and include important plant pathogens (e.g., wheat rust, corn smut), as well as the edible mushrooms. The most diagnostic feature of the basidiomycetes is the basidium (pl. basidia), a generally club-shaped cell ...
terrestrial and aquatic environments enriched in cellulose (e.g., domestic waste landfill sites).[160] They lack mitochondria but contain hydrogenosomes of mitochondrial origin. As in the related chrytrids, neocallimastigomycetes form zoospores that are posteriorly uniflagellate or polyflagellate.[...
Fungi apparently evolved from simple aquatic organisms 900–570 million years ago. Its representatives can be found all over the Earth, and there are important decomposers, parasites, or species used in industry and food products. Many species belong to mutualists living in symbiosis with vascular ...
Pisorisporiales, a new order of aquatic and terrestrial fungi for Achroceratosphaeria and Pisorisporium gen. nov. in the Sordariomy... ova M, Fournier J, Stěpanek V (2015) Pisorisporiales, a new order of aquatic and terrestrial fungi for Achroceratosphaeria and Pisorisporium gen. .....
Background/Question/Methods Nitrification and denitrification are key processes in the nitrogen (N) cycle of terrestrial and aquatic systems. Both are performed by microorganisms, leading to N losses from ecosystems as nitrate or as trace gases such as nitrous oxide (N2O). Nitrification in soils is...
They may also significantly affect population dynamics and population sizes of their hosts in aquatic or terrestrial ecosystems. As mycoparasites of pathogenic fungi, some fungicolous fungi have been explored as biocontrol agents. They may also cause serious diseases of cultivated edible and medicinal ...
(Table 1). These parasites are all at the primary consumer trophic level and their host species are all at the producer trophic level in aquatic food webs. The present review considers in particular some of the important characteristics of the recently discovered parasitic chytrids in both marine...