Features of the species composition of fungi on plant and animal substrates of the Progress station (East Antarctica)

Authors

  • Veronika V. Karmanova V. F. Kuprevich Institute of Experimental Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 27 Akademičnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus
  • Tatyana G. Shabashova V. F. Kuprevich Institute of Experimental Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 27 Akademičnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus
  • Yury G. Giginyak Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Bioresources, 27 Akademičnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus
  • Marina G. Sinyavskaya Institute of Genetics and Cytology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 27 Akademičnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus

Keywords:

Antarctic micromycetes, psychrotrophic organisms, Progress station, oasis Larsemann Hills, psychrophilia, plant substrates

Abstract

Mycofloristic and molecular genetic methods were used to study the species diversity of micromycetes on plant and animal substrates at the Progress station (East Antarctica). In total, 20 species of micromycetes from 10 genera and 2 phylums have been identified (the number of species in a separate sample varied from 1 to 4). A taxonomic analysis was carried out, the dominant species and temperature-dependent features of the growth of micromycetes were determined. It was revealed that 13 out of 20 identified species are anamorphs of micromycetes of the phylum Ascomycota. Most of the isolated micromycetes are psychrotolerant organisms.

Author Biographies

  • Veronika V. Karmanova, V. F. Kuprevich Institute of Experimental Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 27 Akademičnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus

    junior researcher at the laboratory of mycology

  • Tatyana G. Shabashova, V. F. Kuprevich Institute of Experimental Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 27 Akademičnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus

    PhD (biology); head of the laboratory of mycology

  • Yury G. Giginyak, Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Bioresources, 27 Akademičnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus

    PhD (biology); leading researcher at the sector for monitoring and cadastre of wildlife

  • Marina G. Sinyavskaya, Institute of Genetics and Cytology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 27 Akademičnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus

    PhD (biology); head of the laboratory of non-chromosomal heredity

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2023-02-09

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No. 1 (2023): Experimental Biology and Biotechnology

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Karmanova, V. V. ., Shabashova, T. G. ., Giginyak, Y. G. ., & Sinyavskaya, M. G. . (2023). Features of the species composition of fungi on plant and animal substrates of the Progress station (East Antarctica). Experimental Biology and Biotechnology, 1, 41-46. https://doi.org/10.33581/2957-5060-2023-1-41-46