Selective Pressure of Heavy Metals on Soil Microbial Taxa near a Smelting Area [PDF]
ToxicsSoil pollution by heavy metals (HMs) poses a major threat to soil quality and human health, with mining and smelting industries identified as key sources.
Radina Nikolova +6 more
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The Role of Non-Catalytic Region in Determining the Difference in Efficiency Between Two Cellobiohydrolases Revealed Through a Genetic Approach [PDF]
Journal of FungiThe cellulose-binding domain and inter-domain linker play crucial roles in the degradation of crystalline cellulose by cellulases. Although significant differences exist in the degradation efficiency of cellobiohydrolase I (CBH I) derived from different ...
Xinyuan Yan +7 more
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Metal tolerance of Río Tinto fungi [PDF]
Frontiers in Fungal BiologySouthwest Spain’s Río Tinto is a stressful acidic microbial habitat with a noticeably high concentration of toxic heavy metals. Nevertheless, it has an unexpected degree of eukaryotic diversity in its basin, with a high diversity of fungal saprotrophs ...
Monike Oggerin +7 more
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Unveiling the Subterranean Symphony: A Comprehensive Study of Cave Fungi Revealed Through National Center for Biotechnology Sequences [PDF]
Journal of FungiCaves can be regarded as extreme environments, and fungi are known as omnipresent and highly adaptable organisms that can easily colonize such environments.
Željko Savković +2 more
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Veronaea aquatica sp. nov. (Herpotrichiellaceae, Chaetothyriales, Eurotiomycetes) from submerged bamboo in China [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2021 Freshwater fungi are highly diverse and ecologically important in freshwater systems. In China, more than 1000 species of freshwater fungi are known. Here, we present a brown-spored hyphomycetes that was collected on a submerged decaying bamboo culm in a
Sajini Chandrasiri +6 more
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Arboricolonus simplex gen. et sp. nov. and novelties in Cadophora, Minutiella and Proliferodiscus from Prunus wood in Germany [PDF]
MycoKeys, 2020 During a survey on fungi associated with wood necroses of Prunus trees in Germany, strains belonging to the Leotiomycetes and Eurotiomycetes were detected by preliminary analyses of ITS sequences.
Steffen Bien, Ulrike Damm
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New and interesting species of Penicillium (Eurotiomycetes, Aspergillaceae) in freshwater sediments from Spain [PDF]
MycoKeys, 2022 Penicillium species are common fungi found worldwide from diverse substrates, including soil, plant debris, food products and air. Their diversity in aquatic environments is still underexplored.
Daniel Torres-Garcia +2 more
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Penicillium gercinae and Penicillium stangiae (Eurotiomycetes, Ascomycota), two new species from soil in Brazil [PDF]
Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2022 Two new Penicillium species are reported from soil of an agroforestry system and an Atlantic Rainforest fragment in Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil. Using a polyphasic approach, combining partial β-tubulin (BenA), calmodulin (CaM), internal transcribed ...
Amanda Lucia Alves +5 more
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Animal Microbiome, 2022 Background Bats are important long-distance dispersers of many tropical plants, yet, by consuming fruits, they may disperse not only the plant’s seeds, but also the mycobiota within those fruits.
Priscila Chaverri, Gloriana Chaverri
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Mycobiome of the Bat White Nose Syndrome (WNS) Affected Caves and Mines reveals High Diversity of Fungi and Local Adaptation by the Fungal Pathogen Pseudogymnoascus (Geomyces) destructans [PDF]
, 2014 The investigations of the bat White Nose Syndrome (WNS) have yet to provide answers as to how the causative fungus Pseudogymnoascus (Geomyces) destructans (Pd) first appeared in the Northeast and how a single clone has spread rapidly in the US and Canada.
Broussard, Kelly +10 more
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