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SUBMITTER: Wainwright BJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5508810 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PeerJ 20170711
Mesophotic coral ecosystems are an almost entirely unexplored and undocumented environment that likely contains vast reservoirs of undescribed biodiversity. Twenty-four macroalgae samples, representing four genera, were collected from a Hawaiian mesophotic reef at water depths between 65 and 86 m in the 'Au'au Channel, Maui, Hawai'i. Algal tissues were surveyed for the presence and diversity of fungi by sequencing the ITS1 gene using Illumina technology. Fungi from these algae were then compared ...[more]