Cultivable microscopic fungi from an underground chemosynthesis-based ecosystem: a preliminary study

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60077344:_____/18:00490840 RIV/00216208:11310/18:10388370

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12223-017-0527-6" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12223-017-0527-6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12223-017-0527-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12223-017-0527-6</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Cultivable microscopic fungi from an underground chemosynthesis-based ecosystem: a preliminary study

Original language description

Movile Cave, a unique groundwater ecosystem in southern Romania, was discovered in 1986. This chemoautotrophic cave contains an abundant and diverse fauna with terrestrial and aquatic invertebrate communities, including 33 endemic species. Since its discovery, studies have focused mainly on cave chemoautotrophic bacteria, while the microfungal community has been largely neglected. In this study, we determined the microfungal species living on various substrates in Movile Cave and compared this spectrum with the mycobiota detected outside the cave (outside air-borne and soil-borne microfungi). To investigate all of the niches, we collected samples for two consecutive years from the dry part of the cave (cave air and sediment, corroded limestone walls, isopod feces, and isopod and spider cadavers) and from the post-siphon part of the cave, i.e., Airbell II (sediment and floating microbial mat). A total of 123 microfungal species were identified from among several hundred isolates. Of these, 96 species were only detected in the cave environment and not outside of the cave, while 90 species were from the dry part of the cave and 28 were from Airbell II. The most diverse genera were Penicillium (at least 18 species) and Aspergillus (14 species), followed by Cladosporium (9 species). Surprisingly, high CFU counts of air-borne microfungi were found inside the cave, they were even higher than outside the cave during the first year of investigation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10606 - Microbiology

Project

<a href="/en/project/ED1.1.00%2F02.0109" target="_blank" >ED1.1.00/02.0109: Biotechnology and Biomedicine Centre of the Academy of Sciences and Charles University</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Folia Microbiologica

ISSN

0015-5632

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

63

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

43-55

UT code for WoS article

000418143600006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85019723014