Global molecular diversity of the halotolerant fungus Hortaea werneckii

Marchetta, Alessia (author), Gerrits van den Ende, Bert (author), Al-Hatmi, Abdullah M. S. (author), Hagen, Ferry (author), Zalar, Polona (author), Sudhadham, Montarop (author), Gunde-Cimerman, Nina (author), Urzi, Clara (author), Hoog, Sybren de (author), De Leo, Filomena (author)

A global set of clinical and environmental strains of the halotolerant black yeast-like fungus Hortaea werneckii are analyzed by multilocus sequencing and AFLP, and physiological parameters are determined. Partial translation elongation factor 1-α proves to be suitable for typing because of the presence/absence of introns and also the presence of several SNPs. Local clonal expansion could be established by a combination of molecular methods, while the population from the Mediterranean Sea water also responds differently to combined temperature and salt stress. The species comprises molecular populations, which in part also differ physiologically allowing further diversification, but clinical strains did not deviate significantly from their environmental counterparts.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Hortaea werneckii, epidemiology, AFLP, multilocus sequencing, haplotype networks
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2018
• Number of pages: 12 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 8, iss. 3, art. 31
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-131645
• UDC: 579
• ISSN on article: 2075-1729
• DOI: 10.3390/life8030031
• COBISS.SI-ID: 4784463
• Publication date in RUL: 30.09.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Life
• Shortened title: Life
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2075-1729
• COBISS.SI-ID: 519982617

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