{"title":"Diversity of marine fungi in Pondicherry mangroves, east coast of India and systematic placement of <i>Rhizophila marina</i>","authors":"Bandarupalli Devadatha, Revanth Babu Pallam, Sarma Venkateswara Vemuri","doi":"10.1515/bot-2023-0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/bot-2023-0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Although many novel marine fungi have been described from Indian mangroves, a significant number of mangroves in India have not been thoroughly investigated for marine fungi. This study highlights the diversity of marine fungi inhabiting dead and decaying wood of Avicennia marina and Rhizophora mucronata, collected from Thengaithittu and Veerampattinam mangroves of Pondicherry, Puducherry State, India. Through microscopic examination, a total of 52 species (in 48 genera) of marine fungi were identified, with 50 species (in 46 genera) belonging to the Ascomycota and 2 species (in 2 genera) belonging to the Basidiomycota. Previous studies recorded 69 marine fungi from Ariyankuppam and Mahé mangroves of Puducherry, and this study contributes 22 new records of marine fungi to this region. In this study, the phylogenetic placement of Rhizophila marina was determined, and this fungus was found to belong to the family Diatrypaceae.","PeriodicalId":9191,"journal":{"name":"Botanica Marina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135739992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Botanica MarinaPub Date : 2023-09-06DOI: 10.1515/bot-2023-0047
D. T. Dam, Manh-Linh Nguyen, Myung-Sook Kim, C. Vieira
{"title":"Species diversity of the brown alga Lobophora (Dictyotales) in the Con Co Island Marine Protected Area, Vietnam","authors":"D. T. Dam, Manh-Linh Nguyen, Myung-Sook Kim, C. Vieira","doi":"10.1515/bot-2023-0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/bot-2023-0047","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We reevaluated species diversity of the brown alga Lobophora in Vietnam’s Con Co Marine Protected Area (MPA), where only one species had previously been reported. Integrating morphological, ecological, and molecular analyses, we redefined the genus diversity, identifying nine species including two new ones: L. asiatica, L. boussoleae, L. lamourouxii, L. obscura1, L. pachyventera3, L. thailandensis, L. quangtriensis sp. nov., L. vietnamensis sp. nov., and Lobophora sp.1VNA. Lobophora variegata, the sole species previously reported, was absent. This study expands the number of Vietnam’s documented Lobophora species to 11. This work reevaluated Lobophora diversity in Vietnam based on a small island, contributing valuable seaweed diversity reference data for Con Co MPA management. Notably, within the MPA, Lobophora species exhibited no coral-aggressiveness, potentially serving as a health indicator for coral reef communities.","PeriodicalId":9191,"journal":{"name":"Botanica Marina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49639667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Botanica MarinaPub Date : 2023-09-04DOI: 10.1515/bot-2023-0031
Julio Olguin, P. Velez, V. Solís-Weiss, Alejandra Barrios, Allison K. Walker, Guadalupe Ponce-Vélez, María C. González, Mario Figueroa, Alfonso Botello
{"title":"An overview of fungal taxonomic, functional, and genetic diversity in coastal and oceanic biomes in megadiverse Mexico","authors":"Julio Olguin, P. Velez, V. Solís-Weiss, Alejandra Barrios, Allison K. Walker, Guadalupe Ponce-Vélez, María C. González, Mario Figueroa, Alfonso Botello","doi":"10.1515/bot-2023-0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/bot-2023-0031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A comprehensive literature review of mycodiversity in sandy beaches and oceanic environments in Mexico is presented through the analysis of published works from 1949 to early 2023. In addition, four unexplored sandy beaches in the Pacific Ocean and Gulf of California were sampled in order to fill knowledge gaps in terms of sampling biases. Marine fungi of Mexico were reported from water column, sediment, and debris samples collected in sandy beaches, open ocean, deep-sea plains, hydrothermal vents, and oxygen minimum zones in the Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific Ocean, the Gulf of California, and the Caribbean Sea. The taxonomic, functional, and genetic diversity, as well as distribution patterns and potential use of marine fungal genetic resources are discussed. A list of 126 species in 83 genera, 40 families, 25 orders, 12 classes, three phyla and one subphylum (excluding non-cultured taxa) of marine fungi is documented from Mexico. Lastly, we identified areas that would benefit from additional research, including the exploration of further deep-sea biomes in the Pacific Ocean, and coastal areas covering ecoregions in the states of Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Michoacán, and Oaxaca.","PeriodicalId":9191,"journal":{"name":"Botanica Marina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49475804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Botanica MarinaPub Date : 2023-08-22DOI: 10.1515/bot-2023-0039
C. Lobban, T. Frankovich
{"title":"Alveolate species of Mastogloia (Bacillariophyceae, Mastogloiales), including M. frickei Hustedt 1933 from Guam and two renamed species from Florida","authors":"C. Lobban, T. Frankovich","doi":"10.1515/bot-2023-0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/bot-2023-0039","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Mastogloia frickei Hustedt was found in Guam and studied with scanning electron microscopy. A species known by that name in Florida/Bahamas is shown to be a different species and is described as Mastogloia floridensis sp. nov. Both have alveolate striae, which is unusual in the genus. A third alveolate species was present in Florida samples and had been misidentified previously. It is described as Mastogloia lucayensis sp. nov. Ultrastructure observations of these species expand the diversity of alveolate stria morphology.","PeriodicalId":9191,"journal":{"name":"Botanica Marina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46706584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Botanica MarinaPub Date : 2023-08-21DOI: 10.1515/bot-2022-0067
Andréa de Oliveira da Rocha Franco, M. Ashworth, Debbie Du Preez, E. Campbell, R. Maggioni, S. Manning, C. Odebrecht
{"title":"Surf-diatoms from sandy beaches on the Eastern Coast of South America (Brazil): the identification of Anaulus Ehrenberg and Asterionellopsis Round","authors":"Andréa de Oliveira da Rocha Franco, M. Ashworth, Debbie Du Preez, E. Campbell, R. Maggioni, S. Manning, C. Odebrecht","doi":"10.1515/bot-2022-0067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/bot-2022-0067","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract “Surf diatoms” can form high biomass in the surf zone of sandy beaches around the world, Asterionellopsis and Anaulus being the main genera of this group in Brazil. Asterionellopsis glacialis was considered a cosmopolitan species, and taxonomic studies using molecular and morphological tools showed that A. glacialis is a complex with cryptic and semicryptic species. So, it would be plausible to suppose that Anaulus australis, another surf zone patch-forming diatom with wide latitudinal occurrence could also be part of a species complex. We collected and identified Anaulus and Asterionellopsis strains from tropical, subtropical and warm temperate sandy beaches on the east coast of South America (Brazil) based on genetic divergence, phylogeny, single-locus automated species delimitation methods (both genera), and frustule ultrastructure (Anaulus). Anaulus and Asterionellopsis showed contrasting diversity patterns and spatial distribution: a single species of Anaulus australis was registered in tropical and subtropical beaches, while at least three species of Asterionellopsis: A. tropicalis, A. thurstonii and A. guyunusae were observed at different latitudes, indicating that Asterionellopsis species have distinct ecological requirements. Asterionellopsis thurstonii was previously reported in Europe and it is documented here for the first time in the Southern Hemisphere. The different diversity patterns between these two surf diatom genera suggest that they are likely to have distinct ages, and dispersion and/or speciation processes.","PeriodicalId":9191,"journal":{"name":"Botanica Marina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46922261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Botanica MarinaPub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1515/bot-2023-graphabs4
{"title":"In this issue","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/bot-2023-graphabs4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/bot-2023-graphabs4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9191,"journal":{"name":"Botanica Marina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42450705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Botanica MarinaPub Date : 2023-07-21DOI: 10.1515/bot-2023-0032
Mark S. Calabon, E. Jones, K. Pang, M. Abdel-Wahab, Jingwan Jin, B. Devadatha, R. B. Sadaba, C. C. Apurillo, K. Hyde
{"title":"Updates on the classification and numbers of marine fungi","authors":"Mark S. Calabon, E. Jones, K. Pang, M. Abdel-Wahab, Jingwan Jin, B. Devadatha, R. B. Sadaba, C. C. Apurillo, K. Hyde","doi":"10.1515/bot-2023-0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/bot-2023-0032","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article revises the documented diversity of known marine fungi from nine phyla, 33 classes, 107 orders, 273 families, 767 genera and 1898 species reported worldwide. A member of the Aphelidiomycota, Pseudaphelidium drebesii, is reported for the first time from the marine environment, on a diatom. Likewise, the phylum Mortierellomycota is listed following taxonomic changes, as are six subclasses: Chaetothyriomycetidae, Savoryellomycetidae, Sclerococcomycetidae, Agaricostilbomycetidae, Auriculariomycetidae and Aphelidiomycotina. Thirty-three orders and 105 family names with marine species are added to the checklist, along with 641 species in 228 genera, bringing the total to 1898. New additions of species added to the list of marine fungi are highlighted. Four new combinations are proposed: Stigmatodiscus mangrovei, Diaporthe krabiensis and Diaporthe xylocarpi, while the hyphomycete Humicola alopallonella is referred to the genus Halosphaeriopsis, as Halosphaeriopsis alopallonella.","PeriodicalId":9191,"journal":{"name":"Botanica Marina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49284548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Botanica MarinaPub Date : 2023-07-13DOI: 10.1515/bot-2023-0005
S. J. Adams, A. K. Walker
{"title":"Diversity of fungi from marine inundated wood from the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, Canada","authors":"S. J. Adams, A. K. Walker","doi":"10.1515/bot-2023-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/bot-2023-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Marine fungi play an integral role in the decomposition of intertidal organic substrata but remain understudied in cold-water habitats including Atlantic Canada. Marine inundated wood from the intertidal zone was sampled from 30 sites along the Bay of Fundy coastline in Nova Scotia, Canada. Wood types studied included attached and loose intertidal wood, and driftwood. Emergent fungi were cultured and identified using ITS (internal transcribed spacers) rDNA barcoding. Two hundred and twenty cultures representing 86 fungi are reported. Sixty-one fungi were new records for the Bay of Fundy, 41 are first records from the marine environment, and 19 fungi are potentially new to science. Fungi identified included eight obligate marine fungi, with the remaining fungi being facultatively marine. Eight ascomycetes were soft rot fungi; this ecological strategy for decaying woody material in cold-water marine environments is discussed. Historical records and roles of wood type and site on fungal colonization are discussed.","PeriodicalId":9191,"journal":{"name":"Botanica Marina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46994973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Botanica MarinaPub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.1515/bot-2022-0073
Diganta Kumar Saikia, C. Chikkaputtaiah, N. Velmurugan
{"title":"A review of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) of marine zoosporic microorganisms and their commercialization","authors":"Diganta Kumar Saikia, C. Chikkaputtaiah, N. Velmurugan","doi":"10.1515/bot-2022-0073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/bot-2022-0073","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA) are nutritionally and pharmacologically well-recognized beneficial compounds widely used as nutrient supplements for various applications. As the human body cannot accomplish de novo synthesis of PUFA, we depend on exogenous bioresources for the supply of these essential PUFA for day-to-day activities. The PUFA global market is expected to reach about US$ 9.7 billion by 2032. The recent drop in natural fish catch and global climate change severely hamper the global PUFA supply chain. As a sustainable, promising resource, marine zoosporic microorganisms are considered to be safe and alternative primary producers of beneficial PUFAs for direct and indirect human consumption. However, by considering the limitations associated with strain efficiency, final product yield and production cost, more viable low-cost production strategies and establishment of highly efficient, stable, high production cell lines specific for marine zoosporic microbes are essential to meet global PUFA market demand. The exploration of the latest techniques for research and development could shape the dynamics better for the global market for marine zoosporic organism-based PUFA products. Therefore, this review first summarizes low-cost production and strain improvement strategies, and later highlights the advantages and commercial prospects for marine zoosporic microbe-derived PUFA.","PeriodicalId":9191,"journal":{"name":"Botanica Marina","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45249853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}