ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Life on top: cryptoendolithic ascomycetes and microalgae isolated from over 6000 m altitude
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University of Trieste, Department of Life Sciences, via L. Giorgieri
10, 34127 Trieste, Italy
Online publication date: 2022-07-20
Publication date: 2022-07-20
Plant and Fungal Systematics 2022; 67(1): 1-16
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
Rocks are among the oldest terrestrial niches hosting a multiplicity of life forms,
of which diversity has been only partially uncovered. Endolithic metacommunities comprise
all major groups of microorganisms, such as chemo-organotrophic, chemo-lithotrophic
and phototrophic, represented by bacteria, microalgae and microfungi. Their diversity is
often difficult to describe and may remain underestimated. Furthermore, knowledge about
the diversity of microorganisms colonizing rocks in peculiar niches is even poorer due to
the difficulty to retrieve environmental specimens. Here, we report the phylogenetic and
phenotypic characterization of a few endolithic fungi and algae isolated from rock fragments
collected at high elevation, i.e., on the top of two mountains over 6000 m altitude,
Muztagh Ata (China) and Cerro Mercendario (Argentina). The identity of the strains was
confirmed by sequencing the nuclear ITS and LSU, the plastidial rbcL loci and by morphological
analysis. Three fungal strains belonging to the class Dothideomycetes and one
algal strain belonging to the genus Trebouxia were isolated from Muztagh Ata, while six
fungal strains belonging to the order Chaetothyriales and four algal strains belonging to
the genus Myrmecia were isolated from Cerro Mercedario. The detected species diversity
is discussed in an evolutionary and ecological context.
FUNDING
This
work was supported by the Italian Ministry of University and
12 Plant and Fungal Systematics 67(1): 1–16, 2022
Research (MIUR, Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca)
project PRIN2017 (project code 20177559A5) and by the University
of Trieste microgrant funding program “D40_microgrants_
MUGGIA” assigned to LM.
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