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Clissmann, Fionn, Fiore-Donno, Anna Maria ORCID: 0000-0001-6265-1907, Hoppe, Bjoern, Krueger, Dirk, Kahl, Tiemo, Unterseher, Martin and Schnittler, Martin (2015). First insight into dead wood protistan diversity: a molecular sampling of bright-spored Myxomycetes (Amoebozoa, slime-moulds) in decaying beech logs. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol., 91 (6). OXFORD: OXFORD UNIV PRESS. ISSN 1574-6941

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Abstract

Decaying wood hosts a large diversity of seldom investigated protists. Environmental sequencing offers novel insights into communities, but has rarely been applied to saproxylic protists. We investigated the diversity of bright-spored wood-inhabiting Myxomycetes by environmental sequencing. Myxomycetes have a complex life cycle culminating in the formation of mainly macroscopic fruiting bodies, highly variable in shape and colour that are often found on decaying logs. Our hypothesis was that diversity of bright-spored Myxomycetes would increase with decay. DNA was extracted from wood chips collected from 17 beech logs of varying decay stages from the Hainich-Dun region in Central Germany. We obtained 260 partial small subunit ribosomal RNA gene sequences of bright-spored Myxomycetes that were assembled into 29 OTUs, of which 65% were less than 98% similar to those in the existing database. The OTU richness revealed by molecular analysis surpassed that of a parallel inventory of fruiting bodies. We tested several environmental variables and identified pH, rather than decay stage, as the main structuring factor of myxomycete distribution.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Clissmann, Fionn UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Fiore-Donno, Anna Maria UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-6265-1907 UNSPECIFIED Hoppe, Bjoern UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Krueger, Dirk UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Kahl, Tiemo UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Unterseher, Martin UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Schnittler, Martin UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-402193
DOI:	10.1093/femsec/fiv050
Journal or Publication Title:	FEMS Microbiol. Ecol.
Volume:	91
Number:	6
Date:	2015
Publisher:	OXFORD UNIV PRESS
Place of Publication:	OXFORD
ISSN:	1574-6941
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; SPECIES RICHNESS; INHABITING FUNGI; ASSEMBLAGES; PHYLOGENY; INFERENCE; FORESTS Multiple languages Microbiology Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/40219