Mangrove-Associated Fungal Communities Are Differentiated by Geographic Location and Host Structure.

ABSTRACT: Marine fungi on the whole remain understudied, especially in the highly diverse Southeast Asian region. We investigated the fungal communities associated with the mangrove tree Avicennia alba throughout Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia. At each sampling location, we examined ten individual trees, collecting leaves, fruits, pneumatophores, and an adjacent sediment sample from each plant. Amplicon sequencing of the fungal internal transcribed spacer 1 and subsequent analyses reveal significant differences in fungal communities collected from different locations and host structures. Mantel tests and multiple regression on distance matrices show a significant pattern of distance decay with samples collected close to one another having more similar fungal communities than those farther

SUBMITTER: Lee NLY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6831645 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature