Pub Date : 2026-03-11DOI: 10.1007/s00248-026-02733-2
L Cervera, D Álvarez-Torres, M Barreto-Bailet, J Béjar, A Cuesta, M V Martín, S Jerez, E Chaves-Pozo
{"title":"Diagnosis of Betanodavirus Infection in the Gonad of Greater Amberjack Broodstocks Shows a Sex-Biased Infection and Immune Responses.","authors":"L Cervera, D Álvarez-Torres, M Barreto-Bailet, J Béjar, A Cuesta, M V Martín, S Jerez, E Chaves-Pozo","doi":"10.1007/s00248-026-02733-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-026-02733-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18708,"journal":{"name":"Microbial Ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147434295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-10DOI: 10.1007/s00248-026-02704-7
Daniel López-Puentes, Zaida Zarely Ojeda-Pérez, Diana Marcela Arias-Moreno
{"title":"Metagenomic Insights into the Microbial Composition and Functional Potential of Cocoa (Theobroma Cacao L.) During Fermentation and Drying in Colombia.","authors":"Daniel López-Puentes, Zaida Zarely Ojeda-Pérez, Diana Marcela Arias-Moreno","doi":"10.1007/s00248-026-02704-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00248-026-02704-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18708,"journal":{"name":"Microbial Ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147434259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-10DOI: 10.1007/s00248-026-02739-w
Ji Hyun You, Hae Jin Jeong, Sang Ah Park, Haneum Kwon, Se Hee Eom, Minji Kwon, Nam Seon Kang
{"title":"Feeding and growth of the new mixotrophic dinoflagellate Gymnodinium sp. GSTY2405 and the prey spectrum extension of its sister species Gymnodinium smaydae.","authors":"Ji Hyun You, Hae Jin Jeong, Sang Ah Park, Haneum Kwon, Se Hee Eom, Minji Kwon, Nam Seon Kang","doi":"10.1007/s00248-026-02739-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00248-026-02739-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18708,"journal":{"name":"Microbial Ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147434270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-05DOI: 10.1007/s00248-026-02736-z
Stefan Stanovcic, Mira Milisavljevic, Natalija Azanjac, Snezana Kojic, Milorad Kojic
{"title":"Biomolecules Generated During Programmed Cell Death (PCD) Enhance the Capacity of Proliferating Ustilago maydis Cells to Overcome the Negative Impacts of Non-PCD Necromass.","authors":"Stefan Stanovcic, Mira Milisavljevic, Natalija Azanjac, Snezana Kojic, Milorad Kojic","doi":"10.1007/s00248-026-02736-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00248-026-02736-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18708,"journal":{"name":"Microbial Ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13004729/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147365795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-04DOI: 10.1007/s00248-026-02717-2
Diego M Roldán, Daniel Carrizo, Laura Sánchez-García, Rodolfo Javier Menes
{"title":"Temperature Response of Aerobic Methane-Oxidizing Bacteria in Lake Sediments from King George Island, Maritime Antarctica.","authors":"Diego M Roldán, Daniel Carrizo, Laura Sánchez-García, Rodolfo Javier Menes","doi":"10.1007/s00248-026-02717-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00248-026-02717-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18708,"journal":{"name":"Microbial Ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147355779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-04DOI: 10.1007/s00248-026-02708-3
Ondrej Cinek, Klára Hubáčková, Karolína Litošová, Lucie Hlináková
{"title":"Heterogeneity Primer Spacers Improve the Performance of Massively Parallel Amplicon Sequencing of the V3-V4 Region of the 16 S rDNA as well as the 18 S Region for Blastocystis Subtyping.","authors":"Ondrej Cinek, Klára Hubáčková, Karolína Litošová, Lucie Hlináková","doi":"10.1007/s00248-026-02708-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00248-026-02708-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18708,"journal":{"name":"Microbial Ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147355744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-04DOI: 10.1007/s00248-026-02714-5
Vaidotas Lygis, Adas Marčiulynas, Teodora Plepytė, Sigitas Šulčius, Audrius Menkis
Old-growth oak (Quercus robur) forests in Europe are biodiversity hotspots, yet their airborne fungal diversity remains poorly studied. We investigated aeromycobiota in three Lithuanian oak stands (Punia, Dūkštos and Šilinė) using passive spore traps combined with DNA metabarcoding. Weekly sampling between August and September 2022 yielded 75 spore samples, producing 262,755 high-quality fungal sequences clustered into 1,881 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) representing six phyla and 36 classes. Ascomycota (53.1% of OTUs) and Basidiomycota (44.3%) dominated in richness, while Basidiomycota prevailed in relative sequence abundance (62.8%). Major taxa included Exobasidiaceae sp., Cladosporium sp., Melampsora sp., and Thelephora terrestris. Airborne fungal communities exhibited a substantial core assemblage shared among stands, accompanied by stand-associated differences in species richness and relative sequence abundance. The Punia stand showed the highest richness and the greatest proportion of stand-specific OTUs. Temporal variation was detectable but moderate relative to spatial differences among stands. Functional guild analysis revealed dominance of saprotrophs (46.5% of assigned OTUs), followed by pathotrophs (14.5%) and symbiotrophs (13.2%). Overall, our results demonstrate that passive spore traps-based airborne metabarcoding captures high fungal diversity and resolves both widespread and stand-associated community patterns in old-growth oak forests. This study provides the first characterization of aeromycobiota in old-growth Q. robur forests of Northern Europe and highlights the value of airborne metabarcoding for fungal biodiversity assessment and long-term forest monitoring.
{"title":"Metabarcoding Reveals Rich and Diverse Aeromycobiota in Protected Oak Forests.","authors":"Vaidotas Lygis, Adas Marčiulynas, Teodora Plepytė, Sigitas Šulčius, Audrius Menkis","doi":"10.1007/s00248-026-02714-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-026-02714-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Old-growth oak (Quercus robur) forests in Europe are biodiversity hotspots, yet their airborne fungal diversity remains poorly studied. We investigated aeromycobiota in three Lithuanian oak stands (Punia, Dūkštos and Šilinė) using passive spore traps combined with DNA metabarcoding. Weekly sampling between August and September 2022 yielded 75 spore samples, producing 262,755 high-quality fungal sequences clustered into 1,881 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) representing six phyla and 36 classes. Ascomycota (53.1% of OTUs) and Basidiomycota (44.3%) dominated in richness, while Basidiomycota prevailed in relative sequence abundance (62.8%). Major taxa included Exobasidiaceae sp., Cladosporium sp., Melampsora sp., and Thelephora terrestris. Airborne fungal communities exhibited a substantial core assemblage shared among stands, accompanied by stand-associated differences in species richness and relative sequence abundance. The Punia stand showed the highest richness and the greatest proportion of stand-specific OTUs. Temporal variation was detectable but moderate relative to spatial differences among stands. Functional guild analysis revealed dominance of saprotrophs (46.5% of assigned OTUs), followed by pathotrophs (14.5%) and symbiotrophs (13.2%). Overall, our results demonstrate that passive spore traps-based airborne metabarcoding captures high fungal diversity and resolves both widespread and stand-associated community patterns in old-growth oak forests. This study provides the first characterization of aeromycobiota in old-growth Q. robur forests of Northern Europe and highlights the value of airborne metabarcoding for fungal biodiversity assessment and long-term forest monitoring.</p>","PeriodicalId":18708,"journal":{"name":"Microbial Ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147355774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-02DOI: 10.1007/s00248-026-02711-8
Rodrigo Suarez-Silva, Manuel Saucedo-Bazalar, Manuel Ramirez Saenz, Renato D La Torre Ramirez, Esteban Caycho, Gisella Orjeda
{"title":"Exploring the Algarrobo Decline in the Pómac Forest: Unraveling the Relationship between the Endomicrobiome of Neltuma pallida and Enallodiplosis discordis.","authors":"Rodrigo Suarez-Silva, Manuel Saucedo-Bazalar, Manuel Ramirez Saenz, Renato D La Torre Ramirez, Esteban Caycho, Gisella Orjeda","doi":"10.1007/s00248-026-02711-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00248-026-02711-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18708,"journal":{"name":"Microbial Ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13005840/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147326750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Differential Response of Banana Root Exudates and its Components on the Growth and Development of Banana Wilt Pathogen.","authors":"Rochelle D'Souza, Komal Pujare, Siva Kumar Balu, Deepak Kanojiya, Yashika Garg, Siddhesh B Ghag","doi":"10.1007/s00248-025-02693-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00248-025-02693-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18708,"journal":{"name":"Microbial Ecology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12963256/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147326769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}