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Blaschke M, Siemonsmeier A, Harjes J, Okach DO, Rambold G. Comparison of survey methods for fungi using metabarcoding and fruit body inventories in an altitudinal gradient. Arch Microbiol 2023; 205:269. [PMID: 37354241 DOI: 10.1007/s00203-023-03606-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2022] [Revised: 06/07/2023] [Accepted: 06/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/26/2023]
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Metabarcoding of environmental samples is nowadays an established method in biodiversity research. When it comes to studying fungal populations in various ecotypes, fruit body inventories are the traditional method to assess the diversity of fungal communities. In this study, both methods-metabarcoding of soil samples and a traditional fruit body inventory-were conducted on 144 sample plots in an altitudinal gradient in the Bavarian Forest (Germany) and the results were compared. Metabarcoding detected significantly more species than the traditional fruit body inventory. The majority of taxa recorded in the fruit body inventory belonged to the Basidiomycota, whereas in the metabarcoding data, the distribution of species between Basidiomycota and Ascomycota was approximately balanced. Species of several orders forming inconspicuous or hypogeous fruit bodies were detected only by metabarcoding, while several wood decomposers were recorded only in the fruit body inventory. The proportion of detected wood-colonising species with melanized spores was considerably higher with metabarcoding than with the fruit body inventory, where more than 70% of recorded wood-colonisers had hyaline spores. Based on the metabarcoding data, a decline of species richness with increasing altitude was evident, but this was not visible in the fruit body inventory data. Detrended correspondence analyses yielded similar results for relative species community similarities with both survey methods.
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- Markus Blaschke
- Bavarian State Institute of Forestry, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 1, 85354, Freising, Germany.
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- Bavarian State Institute of Forestry, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 1, 85354, Freising, Germany
- University of Applied Forest Science Rottenburg, Schadenweilerhof, 72108, Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany
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- Department of Mycology, University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstraße 30, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Department of Mycology, University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstraße 30, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Department of Mycology, University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstraße 30, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany.
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A three-gene phylogeny supports taxonomic rearrangements in the family Didymiaceae (Myxomycetes). Mycol Prog 2023. [DOI: 10.1007/s11557-022-01858-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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El-Debaiky SAAK, Mahmoud YAG. First record of <i>Lepidoderma carestianum</i> and <i>Arthrinium bambusicola</i> from Egypt. STUDIES IN FUNGI 2022. [DOI: 10.48130/sif-2022-0010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Shchepin O, Novozhilov Y, Woyzichovski J, Bog M, Prikhodko I, Fedorova N, Gmoshinskiy V, Borg Dahl M, Dagamac NHA, Yajima Y, Schnittler M. Genetic structure of the protist Physarum albescens (Amoebozoa) revealed by multiple markers and genotyping by sequencing. Mol Ecol 2021; 31:372-390. [PMID: 34676941 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2021] [Revised: 09/26/2021] [Accepted: 10/08/2021] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Myxomycetes are terrestrial protists with many presumably cosmopolitan species dispersing via airborne spores. A truly cosmopolitan species would suffer from outbreeding depression hampering local adaptation, while locally adapted species with limited distribution would be at a higher risk of extinction in changing environments. Here, we investigate intraspecific genetic diversity and phylogeography of Physarum albescens over the entire Northern Hemisphere. We sequenced 324 field collections of fruit bodies for 1-3 genetic markers (SSU, EF1A, COI) and analysed 98 specimens with genotyping by sequencing. The structure of the three-gene phylogeny, SNP-based phylogeny, phylogenetic networks, and the observed recombination pattern of three independently inherited gene markers can be best explained by the presence of at least 18 reproductively isolated groups, which can be seen as cryptic species. In all intensively sampled regions and in many localities, members of several phylogroups coexisted. Some phylogroups were found to be abundant in only one region and completely absent in other well-studied regions, and thus may represent regional endemics. Our results demonstrate that the widely distributed myxomycete species Ph. albescens represents a complex of at least 18 cryptic species, and some of these seem to have a limited geographical distribution. In addition, the presence of groups of presumably clonal specimens suggests that sexual and asexual reproduction coexist in natural populations of myxomycetes.
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- Oleg Shchepin
- Laboratory of Systematics and Geography of Fungi, Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.,General Botany and Plant Systematics, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Laboratory of Systematics and Geography of Fungi, Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- General Botany and Plant Systematics, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- General Botany and Plant Systematics, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Laboratory of Systematics and Geography of Fungi, Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Laboratory of Systematics and Geography of Fungi, Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.,Faculty of Biology, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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- Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.,Polistovsky National Nature Reserve, Pskov Region, Russia
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- General Botany and Plant Systematics, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.,Institute of Microbiology, Center for Functional Genomics of Microbes, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- General Botany and Plant Systematics, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.,Department of Biological Sciences and Research Center for the Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines
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- Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran, Japan
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- General Botany and Plant Systematics, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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Janik P, Szczepaniak M, Lado C, Ronikier A. Didymium pseudonivicola: A new myxomycete from the austral Andes emerges from broad-scale morphological and molecular analyses of D. nivicola collections. Mycologia 2021; 113:1327-1342. [PMID: 34533412 DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2021.1961068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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A new nivicolous myxomycete is described as a result of a comprehensive study of Didymium nivicola collections from the entire range of its occurrence. Statistical analysis of 12 morphological characters, phylogenetic analyses of nuc 18S rDNA and elongation factor 1-alpha gene (EF1A), and a delimitation method (automatic barcode gap diversity) have been applied to corroborate the identity of the new species. A preliminary morphological analysis of D. nivicola revealed high variability of South American populations where four types of spore ornamentation were noted. However, results of molecular study and statistical analysis of morphological characters did not support recognition of these four forms but the distinction of two morphotypes. Consequently, two species have been recognized: D. nivicola and the newly proposed D. pseudonivicola. The new species can be distinguished from D. nivicola by distinctly larger and mostly plasmodiocarpic sporophores, which are scattered to gregarious, paler spores, and by the paler, more delicate and more elastic capillitium. Spore ornamentation of D. pseudonivicola is uniform and can be described as distinctly spiny (pilate under scanning electron microscope [SEM]), whereas those of D. nivicola is more variable, where spines (pilae under SEM) are delicate, distinct, or conspicuous. Additionally, whereas D. nivicola is a species distributed worldwide, D. pseudonivicola occurs only in the austral Andes of Argentina and Chile.
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- Paulina Janik
- W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lubicz 46, 31-512 Kraków, Poland
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- W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lubicz 46, 31-512 Kraków, Poland
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- Real Jardín Botánico, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, 28014, Spain
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- W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lubicz 46, 31-512 Kraków, Poland
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Dahl MB, Peršoh D, Jentsch A, Kreyling J. Root-Associated Mycobiomes of Common Temperate Plants (Calluna vulgaris and Holcus lanatus) Are Strongly Affected by Winter Climate Conditions. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 2021; 82:403-415. [PMID: 33452897 PMCID: PMC8384817 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-020-01667-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2019] [Accepted: 12/16/2020] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Winter temperatures are projected to increase in Central Europe. Subsequently, snow cover will decrease, leading to increased soil temperature variability, with potentially different consequences for soil frost depending on e.g. altitude. Here, we experimentally evaluated the effects of increased winter soil temperature variability on the root associated mycobiome of two plant species (Calluna vulgaris and Holcus lanatus) at two sites in Germany; a colder and wetter upland site with high snow accumulation and a warmer and drier lowland site, with low snow accumulation. Mesocosm monocultures were set-up in spring 2010 at both sites (with soil and plants originating from the lowland site). In the following winter, an experimental warming pulse treatment was initiated by overhead infrared heaters and warming wires at the soil surface for half of the mesocosms at both sites. At the lowland site, the warming treatment resulted in a reduced number of days with soil frost as well as increased the average daily temperature amplitude. Contrary, the treatment caused no changes in these parameters at the upland site, which was in general a much more frost affected site. Soil and plant roots were sampled before and after the following growing season (spring and autumn 2011). High-throughput sequencing was used for profiling of the root-associated fungal (ITS marker) community (mycobiome). Site was found to have a profound effect on the composition of the mycobiome, which at the upland site was dominated by fast growing saprotrophs (Mortierellomycota), and at the lowland site by plant species-specific symbionts (e.g. Rhizoscyphus ericae and Microdochium bolleyi for C. vulgaris and H. lanatus respectively). The transplantation to the colder upland site and the temperature treatment at the warmer lowland site had comparable consequences for the mycobiome, implying that winter climate change resulting in higher temperature variability has large consequences for mycobiome structures regardless of absolute temperature of a given site.
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- Mathilde Borg Dahl
- Institute of Microbiology, Center for Functional Genomics of Microbes, University of Greifswald, Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 8, 17487, Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
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- Geobotanik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- Disturbance Ecology, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research BayCEER, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Institute of Botany and Landscape ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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Ronikier A, García-Cunchillos I, Janik P, Lado C. Nivicolous Trichiales from the austral Andes: unexpected diversity including two new species. Mycologia 2020; 112:753-780. [PMID: 32649270 DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2020.1759978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Nivicolous myxomycetes are a group of amoebozoan protists dependent on long-lasting snow cover worldwide. Recent fine-scale analysis of species diversity from the austral Andes revealed high intraspecific variability of most taxa, suggesting independent evolutionary processes and significant differences in species compositions between the Northern (NH) and Southern (SH) Hemispheres. The present study is the second part of this analysis based on representatives of Trichiales. A total of 173 South American collections were studied based on morphological and molecular data, and 15 taxa have been identified. Two of them, Hemitrichia crassifila and Perichaena patagonica, are proposed as new species confirmed by a phylogeny of Trichiales. However, their affinity to the genera in which they are proposed are not confirmed due to polyphyletic character of all genera of Trichiales. Four species, Dianema subretisporum, Trichia contorta var. karstenii, T. nivicola, and T. sordida, are reported for the first time from the Southern Hemisphere. One species, T. alpina, is new for Argentina. Additionally, we provide the first record of Perichaena megaspora from Chile. Specimen frequency and species diversity of Trichiales found at nivicolous localities in the austral Andes are unexpectedly high, exceeding those of Stemonitidales, the most numerous group in the Northern Hemisphere, where Trichiales play a marginal role. By contrast, Trichiales appear the main component of nivicolous assemblages in the Andes. Results of the present work, together with the earlier analysis of Stemonitidales, indicate that the Andes constitute an exceptionally important evolutionary hot spot for nivicolous myxomycetes characterized by an outstanding species diversity.
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- Anna Ronikier
- W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences , Lubicz 46, 31-512 Kraków, Poland
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- Real Jardín Botánico, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas , Plaza de Murillo 2, 28014 Madrid, Spain
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- W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences , Lubicz 46, 31-512 Kraków, Poland
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- Real Jardín Botánico, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas , Plaza de Murillo 2, 28014 Madrid, Spain
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Janik P, Ronikier M, Ronikier A. New protocol for successful isolation and amplification of DNA from exiguous fractions of specimens: a tool to overcome the basic obstacle in molecular analyses of myxomycetes. PeerJ 2020; 8:e8406. [PMID: 32002333 PMCID: PMC6984339 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.8406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2019] [Accepted: 12/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Herbarium collections provide an essential basis for a wide array of biological research and, with development of DNA-based methods, they have become an invaluable material for genetic analyses. Yet, the use of such material is hindered by technical limitations related to DNA degradation and to quantity of biological material. The latter is inherent for some biological groups, as best exemplified by myxomycetes which form minute sporophores. It is estimated that ca. two-thirds of myxomycete taxa are represented by extremely scanty material. As DNA isolation methods applied so far in myxomycete studies require destructive sampling of many sporophores, a large part of described diversity of the group remains unavailable for phylogenetic studies or barcoding. Here, we tested several procedures of DNA isolation and amplification to seek for an efficient and possibly non-destructive method of sampling. Tests were based on herbarium specimens of 19 species representing different taxonomic orders. We assayed several variants of isolation based on silica gel membrane columns, and a newly designed procedure using highly reduced amount of biological material (small portion of spores), based on fine disruption of spores and direct PCR. While the most frequently used column-based method led to PCR success in 89.5% of samples when a large amount of material was used, its performance dropped to 52% when based on single sporophores. Single sporophores provided amplicons in 89.5% of samples when using a kit dedicated to low-amount DNA samples. Our new procedure appeared the most effective (94.7%) while it used only a small fraction of spores, being nearly non-destructive; it was also the most cost-effective. We thus demonstrate that combination of adequate handling of spore micro-disruption coupled with application of direct PCR can be an efficient way to circumvent technical limitations for genetic studies in myxomycetes and thus can substantially improve taxon sampling for phylogeny and barcoding. Additionally, this approach gives a unique possibility to apply both molecular and morphological assays to the same structure (sporophore), which then can be further stored as documentation.
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- Paulina Janik
- W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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- W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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- W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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Borg Dahl M, Brejnrod AD, Russel J, Sørensen SJ, Schnittler M. Different Degrees of Niche Differentiation for Bacteria, Fungi, and Myxomycetes Within an Elevational Transect in the German Alps. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 2019; 78:764-780. [PMID: 30903202 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-019-01347-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2018] [Accepted: 02/17/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We used direct DNA amplification from soil extracts to analyze microbial communities from an elevational transect in the German Alps by parallel metabarcoding of bacteria (16S rRNA), fungi (ITS2), and myxomycetes (18S rRNA). For the three microbial groups, 5710, 6133, and 261 operational taxonomic units (OTU) were found. For the latter group, we can relate OTUs to barcodes from fruit bodies sampled over a 4-year period. The alpha diversity of myxomycetes was positively correlated with that of bacteria. Vegetation type was found to be the main explanatory parameter for the community composition of all three groups and a substantial species turnover with elevation was observed. Bacteria and fungi display similar community responses, driven by symbiont species and plant substrate quality. Myxamoebae show a more patchy distribution, though still clearly stratified between taxa, which seems to be a response to both structural properties of the habitat and interaction with specific bacterial and fungal taxa. Finally, we report a high number of myxomycete OTUs not represented in a reference database from fructifications, which might represent novel species.
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- Mathilde Borg Dahl
- Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Soldmannstrasse 15, 17487, Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
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- Section of Microbiology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Section of Microbiology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Section of Microbiology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Soldmannstrasse 15, 17487, Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
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Shchepin ON, Schnittler M, Erastova DA, Prikhodko IS, Borg Dahl M, Azarov DV, Chernyaeva EN, Novozhilov YK. Community of dark-spored myxomycetes in ground litter and soil of taiga forest (Nizhne-Svirskiy Reserve, Russia) revealed by DNA metabarcoding. FUNGAL ECOL 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2018.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Hosokawa A, Reid CR, Latty T. Slimes in the city: The diversity of myxomycetes from inner-city and semi-urban parks in Sydney, Australia. FUNGAL ECOL 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2018.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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