Apparently it wasn’t common knowledge yippee wahooo.
Source: my lectures, but its mostly ascomycota, basidiomycota and Chytridiomycota fuckin around in there.
Marine fungi are often overlooked because barely any of them make the fruiting body part (the bit of the mushroom on land -- toadstool style). A lot of them are parasitic on fish, coral, algae, and phytoplankton (Gladfelter, James and Amend, 2019). some coral fungi has already been mentioned in da comments. Chytrids are particularly important parasites that facilitate zooplankton feeding through phytoplankton death -- chytrid loop (Kagami, Miki and Takimoto, 2014). They’re very important for degrading organic matter, and also have been seen degrading plastics (Russell et al., 2011). (some microbes in general looveee oil and hydrocarbons (King et al., 2015))
I also gotta briefly mention planctomycetes which are NOT fungi but they were thought to be because they do a lot of weird eukaryote stuff despite being bacteria (Wiegand, Jogler and Jogler, 2018). They’re also the only thing (as far as I know) that can do Anammox, which is ammonium to N2 gas (strange and weird) (Op den Camp, Jetten and Strous, 2007).
here is but asmall. section considering how much there is about them now. enjoy. my creatures also its like 8am when im writing this i woke up to write the fungi post
bibliography #myreferences. tried to find free access for the papers for people without academic access, but my extension doesnt work for all of them so just message me if theres one you want to look at and i will find a way.
Gladfelter, A. S., James, T. Y. and Amend, A. S. (2019) 'Marine fungi', Current Biology, 29(6), pp. R191–R195. free access: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(19)30148-4.pdf
Kagami, M., Miki, T. and Takimoto, G. (2014) 'Mycoloop: chytrids in aquatic food webs', Frontiers in Microbiology, Volume 5 - 2014. free access: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00166/pdf
King, G. M., Kostka, J. E., Hazen, T. C. and Sobecky, P. A. (2015) 'Microbial Responses to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: From Coastal Wetlands to the Deep Sea', Annual Review of Marine Science, 7(Volume 7, 2015), pp. 377–401. (no free access, dm if you want to read)
Op den Camp, H. J. M., Jetten, M. S. M. and Strous, M. (2007) 'Chapter 16 - Anammox', in Bothe, H., Ferguson, S.J. and Newton, W.E. (eds.) Biology of the Nitrogen Cycle. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 245–262. (again, dm me)
Russell, J. R., Huang, J., Anand, P., Kucera, K., Sandoval, A. G., Dantzler, K. W., Hickman, D., Jee, J., Kimovec, F. M., Koppstein, D., Marks, D. H., Mittermiller, P. A., Núñez, S. J., Santiago, M., Townes, M. A., Vishnevetsky, M., Williams, N. E., Vargas, M. P. N., Boulanger, L.-A., Bascom-Slack, C. and Strobel, S. A. (2011) 'Biodegradation of Polyester Polyurethane by Endophytic Fungi', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 77(17), pp. 6076–6084. (free access: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3165411/)
Wiegand, S., Jogler, M. and Jogler, C. (2018) 'On the maverick Planctomycetes', FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 42(6), pp. 739–760. (this ones a free article already read the pdf here!)
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