Species belonging to the ecological group: aquatic hyphomycetes. They are abundant in small streams but can be found in other ecosystems like ponds, lakes or tree holes. For unknown Aquatic Hyphomycet...

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Freshwater microbial communities sustain ecosystem functions and services, with aquatic fungi playing a key role in organic matter decomposition and nutrient transfer. However, the combined effect...

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Aquatic fungi play an important role in the material cycling, yet the factors structuring the spatial distribution of aquatic fungal communities remain poorly understood. In this study, we investigated fungal community composition across 50 reservoirs in Japan using DNA metabarcoding. Chytridiomycota (chytrids) dominated fungal communities in many reservoirs and constituted a core component of fungal assemblage. Notably, diatom-parasitic taxa were detected in all reservoirs, indicating their ubiquitous occurrence. In contrast, rare and transient components were mainly composed of Dikarya (Ascomycota and Basidiomycota), likely influenced by stochastic processes, such as episodic inputs from terrestrial habitats. Variation partitioning showed that environmental, spatial, and host-related factors each explained only a small proportion of variation in both the total fungal community and chytrids, with spatial effects being slightly stronger for total fungi, whereas environmental and host-related factors contributed relatively more to chytrid communities. Our results indicate reservoir fungal communities are characterized by a ubiquitous chytrid core and substantial unexplained variation reflecting stochastic and within-lake processes.

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Abstract. The family Arthrodermataceae, the dermatophytes and allies, ancestrally began with Ascomycetous bifactorial sexual cycles built into an ecology t

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Zoosporic fungi of the Chytridiomycota phylum are lethal parasites of algae in Arctic freshwater and marine environments. The presence of members of the Chytridiomycota phylum has also been confirmed ...

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