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CURRENT BIOLOGY
Volume 29, Issue 23, Pages 4093-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.09.074
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- ANR project ACHN 2016 PARASED [ANR-16_ACHN_0003]
- Genome Canada via a Genome Atlantic Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Genome Canada via a Donald Hill Family Fellowship
- Royal Society
- BiodivERsA ERA-Net project BioMarKs
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation MMI Grant [GBMF3307]
- NERC [NE/F011709/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The Fungi are a diverse kingdom, dominating terrestrial environments and driving important ecologies. Although fungi, and the related Opisthosporidia, interact with photosynthetic organisms on land and in freshwater as parasites, symbionts, and/or saprotrophic degraders [1, 2], such interactions in the marine environment are poorly understood [3-8]. One newly identified uncultured marine lineage has been named novel chytrid-like-clade-1 (NCLC1) [ 4] or basal-clone-group-I [5, 6]. We use ribosomal RNA (rRNA) encoding gene phylogenies to demonstrate that NCLC1 is a distinct branch within the Opisthosporidia (Holomycota) [7]. Opisthosporidia are a diverse and largely uncultured group that form a sister branch to the Fungi or, alternatively, the deepest branch within the Fungi, depending on how the boundary to this kingdom is inferred [9]. Using culture-free lineage-specific rRNA-targeted fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) microscopy, we demonstrate that NCLC1 cells form intracellular infection of key diatom species, establishing that intracellular colonization of a eukaryotic host is a consistent lifestyle across the Opisthosporidia [8-11]. NCLC1 infection-associated loss and/or envelopment of the diatom nuclei infers a necrotrophic-pathogenic interaction. Diatoms are one of the most diverse and ecologically important phytoplankton groups, acting as dominant primary producers and driving carbon fixation and storage in many aquatic environments [12-14]. Our results provide insight into the diversity of microbial eukaryotes that interact with diatoms. We suggest that such interactions can play a key role in diatom associated ecosystem functions, such as the marine carbon pump through necrotrophic-parasitism, facilitating the export of diatoms to the sediment [15, 16].
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