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MYCOLOGY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON FUNGAL BIOLOGY
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages 1-31Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/21501203.2021.2002452
Keywords
Fungi; rock-inhabiting fungi; lithophilic fungi; lithotolerant fungi; species diversity; adaption mechanisms
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31970011]
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Rock-inhabiting fungi (RIF) are a group of organisms associated with terrestrial rocks, exhibiting unique morphological features and slow growth, which are significant in eukaryotic biology, ecology, and biotechnology. Understanding the biodiversity, antistress biology, origin, and convergent evolution of RIF can aid in cultural relic preservation and the application of biotechnology.
Rock-inhabiting fungi (RIF) constitute an ecological group associated with terrestrial rocks. This association is generally restricted to the persistent colonisation of rocks and peculiar morphological features based on melanisation and slow growth, which endow RIF with significance in eukaryotic biology, special status in ecology, and exotic potential in biotechnology. There is a need to achieve a better understanding of the hidden biodiversity, antistress biology, origin and convergent evolution of RIF, which will facilitate cultural relic preservation, exploitation of the biogeochemical cycle of rock elements and biotechnology applications. This review focuses on summarising the current knowledge of rock-inhabiting fungi, with particular reference to terminology, biodiversity and geographic distribution, origin and evolution, and stress adaptation mechanisms. We especially teased out the definition through summing up the terms related to rock-inhabting fungi, and also provided a checklist of rock-inhabiting fungal taxa recorded following updated classification schemes.
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