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DOI 10.1007/s13225-011-0101-5
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Title (Primary) Assessment of soil fungal diversity in different alpine tundra habitats by means of pyrosequencing
Author Lentendu, G.; Zinger, L.; Manel, S.; Coissac, E.; Choler, P.; Geremia, R.A.; Melodelima, C.
Source Titel Fungal Diversity
Year 2011
Department BOOEK
Volume 49
Issue 1
Page From 113
Page To 123
Language englisch
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Keywords Multiple-tag parallel pyrosequencing; Fungal communities; MOTUs; Rare biosphere; Alpine tundra; Landscape
Abstract

Studying fungal diversity is vital if we want to shed light on terrestrial ecosystem functioning. However, there is still poor understanding of fungal diversity and variation given that Fungi are highly diversified and that most of fungal species remain uncultured. In this study we explored diversity with 454 FLX sequencing technology by using the Internal Transcribed Spacer 1 (ITS1) as the fungal barcode marker in order to evaluate the effect of 11 environmental conditions on alpine soil fungal diversity, as well as the consistency of those results by taking into account rare or unidentified Molecular Operational Taxonomic Units (MOTUs). In total we obtained 205131 ITS1 reads corresponding to an estimated fungal gamma diversity of between 5100 and 12 000 MOTUs at a 98% similarity threshold when considering respectively only identified fungal and all MOTUs. Fungal beta-diversity patterns were significantly explained by the environmental conditions, and were very consistent for abundant/rare and fungal/unidentified MOTUs confirming the ecological significance of rare/unidentified MOTUs, and therefore the existence of a fungal rare biosphere. This study shows that a beta-diversity estimation based on pyrosequencing is robust enough to support ecological studies. Additionally, our results suggest that rare MOTUs harbour ecological information. Thus the fungal rare biosphere may be important for ecosystem dynamics and resilience.
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Lentendu, G., Zinger, L., Manel, S., Coissac, E., Choler, P., Geremia, R.A., Melodelima, C. (2011):
Assessment of soil fungal diversity in different alpine tundra habitats by means of pyrosequencing
Fungal Divers. 49 (1), 113 - 123 10.1007/s13225-011-0101-5