Global patterns in culturable soil yeast diversity
Summary: Yeasts, broadly defined as unicellular fungi, fulfill essential roles in soil ecosystems as decomposers and nutrition sources for fellow soil-dwellers. Broad-scale investigations of soil yeasts pose a methodological challenge as metagenomics are of limited use for identifying this group of...
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| author | Himeshi Samarasinghe Yi Lu Renad Aljohani Ahmad Al-Amad Heather Yoell Jianping Xu |
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| description | Summary: Yeasts, broadly defined as unicellular fungi, fulfill essential roles in soil ecosystems as decomposers and nutrition sources for fellow soil-dwellers. Broad-scale investigations of soil yeasts pose a methodological challenge as metagenomics are of limited use for identifying this group of fungi. Here we characterize global soil yeast diversity using fungal DNA barcoding on 1473 yeasts cultured from 3826 soil samples obtained from nine countries in six continents. We identify mean annual precipitation and international air travel as two significant correlates with soil yeast community structure and composition worldwide. Evidence for anthropogenic influences on soil yeast communities, directly via travel and indirectly via altered rainfall patterns resulting from climate change, is concerning as we found common infectious yeasts frequently distributed in soil in several countries. Our discovery of 41 putative novel species highlights the continued need for culture-based studies to advance our knowledge of environmental yeast diversity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-eb9fc277ebad4824a2b4129532d2847b2022-12-21T19:43:11ZengElsevieriScience2589-00422021-10-012410103098Global patterns in culturable soil yeast diversityHimeshi Samarasinghe0Yi Lu1Renad Aljohani2Ahmad Al-Amad3Heather Yoell4Jianping Xu5Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, CanadaDepartment of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, CanadaDepartment of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Department of Infectious Diseases, South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London, London, UKDepartment of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, CanadaDepartment of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, CanadaDepartment of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Corresponding authorSummary: Yeasts, broadly defined as unicellular fungi, fulfill essential roles in soil ecosystems as decomposers and nutrition sources for fellow soil-dwellers. Broad-scale investigations of soil yeasts pose a methodological challenge as metagenomics are of limited use for identifying this group of fungi. Here we characterize global soil yeast diversity using fungal DNA barcoding on 1473 yeasts cultured from 3826 soil samples obtained from nine countries in six continents. We identify mean annual precipitation and international air travel as two significant correlates with soil yeast community structure and composition worldwide. Evidence for anthropogenic influences on soil yeast communities, directly via travel and indirectly via altered rainfall patterns resulting from climate change, is concerning as we found common infectious yeasts frequently distributed in soil in several countries. Our discovery of 41 putative novel species highlights the continued need for culture-based studies to advance our knowledge of environmental yeast diversity.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422101066Xgeomicrobiologysoil sciencemicrobiology |
| spellingShingle | Himeshi Samarasinghe Yi Lu Renad Aljohani Ahmad Al-Amad Heather Yoell Jianping Xu Global patterns in culturable soil yeast diversity iScience geomicrobiology soil science microbiology |
| title | Global patterns in culturable soil yeast diversity |
| title_full | Global patterns in culturable soil yeast diversity |
| title_fullStr | Global patterns in culturable soil yeast diversity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Global patterns in culturable soil yeast diversity |
| title_short | Global patterns in culturable soil yeast diversity |
| title_sort | global patterns in culturable soil yeast diversity |
| topic | geomicrobiology soil science microbiology |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422101066X |
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