Fungi in the Marine Environment: Open Questions and Unsolved Problems

Authors

• Anthony Amend, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
• Gaetan Burgaud, Université de Bretagne Occidentale
• Michael Cunliffe, School of Biological and Marine Sciences
• Virginia P. Edgcomb, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Cassandra L. Ettinger, University of California at Davis
• M. H. Gutiérrez, Universidad de Concepción
• Joseph Heitman, Duke University
• Erik F.Y. Hom, University of Mississippi
• Giuseppe Ianiri, Duke University
• Adam C. Jones, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
• Maiko Kagami, Yokohama National University
• Kathryn T. Picard, Smithsonian Institution
• C. Alisha Quandt, University of Colorado Boulder
• Seshagiri Raghukumar, CSIR - National Institute of Oceanography
• Mertixell Riquelme, Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada
• Jason Stajich, University of California at Riverside
• José Vargas-Muñiz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Allison K. Walker, Acadia University
• Oded Yarden, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Amy S. Gladfelter, The University of Chicago

ORCID

• Michael Cunliffe: 0000-0002-6716-3555

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Terrestrial fungi play critical roles in nutrient cycling and food webs and can shape macroorganism communities as parasites and mutualists. Although estimates for the number of fungal species on the planet range from 1.5 to over 5 million, likely fewer than 10% of fungi have been identified so far.

DOI Link

10.1128/mbio.01189-18

Publication Date

2019-04-30

Publication Title

mBio

Volume

10

Issue

2

ISSN

2161-2129

Acceptance Date

2019-01-01

Deposit Date

2024-06-04

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Amend, A., Burgaud, G., Cunliffe, M., Edgcomb, V., Ettinger, C., Gutiérrez, M., Heitman, J., Hom, E., Ianiri, G., Jones, A., Kagami, M., Picard, K., Quandt, C., Raghukumar, S., Riquelme, M., Stajich, J., Vargas-Muñiz, J., Walker, A., Yarden, O., & Gladfelter, A. (2019) 'Fungi in the Marine Environment: Open Questions and Unsolved Problems', mBio, 10(2). Available at: 10.1128/mbio.01189-18