Journal
FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 366, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnaa014
Keywords
marine fungi; Mediterranean Sea; Aplysina cavernicola; Crambe crambe; Phorbas tenacior
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- Conseil Regional Provence Alpes Cote d'azur [2014-480]
- European Union [654008]
- Galileo project from the Italo-French University [34595SA]
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Marine fungi are part of the huge and understudied biodiversity hosted in the sea. To broaden the knowledge on fungi inhabiting the Mediterranean Sea and their role in sponge holobiont, three sponges namely Aplysina cavernicola, Crambe crambe and Phorbas tenacior were collected in Villefranche sur Mer, (France) at about 25 m depth. The fungal communities associated with the sponges were isolated using different techniques to increase the numbers of fungi isolated. All fungi were identified to species level giving rise to 19, 13 and 3 species for P. tenacior, A. cavernicola and C. crambe, respectively. Of note, 35.7% and 50.0% of the species detected were either reported for the first time in the marine environment or in association with sponges. The mini-satellite analysis confirmed the uniqueness of the mycobiota of each sponge, leading to think that the sponge, with its metabolome, may shape the microbial community.
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