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Peng, X.* ; Gat, D. ; Paytan, A.* ; Rudich, Y.*

The response of airborne mycobiome to dust storms in the eastern mediterranean.

J. Fungi 7:802 (2021)
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Airborne microbial communities directly impact the health of humans, animals, plants, and receiving ecosystems. While airborne bacterial and fungal communities have been studied by both cultivation-based methods and metabarcoding surveys targeting specific molecular markers, fewer studies have used shotgun metagenomics to study the airborne mycobiome. We analyzed the diversity and relative abundance of fungi in nine airborne metagenomes collected on clear days (“background”) and during dust storms in the Eastern Mediterranean. The negative correlation between the relative abundance of fungal reads and the concentrations of atmospheric particulate matter having an aerodynamic diameter smaller than 10 µm (PM10) indicate that dust storms lower the proportion of fungi in the airborne microbiome, possibly due to the lower relative abundance of fungi in the dust storm source regions and/or more effective transport of bacteria by the dust. Airborne fungal community composition was altered by the dust storms, particularly those originated from Syria, which was enriched with xerophilic fungi. We reconstructed a high-quality fungal metagenome-assembled genome (MAG) from the order Cladosporiales, which include fungi known to adapt to environmental extremes commonly faced by airborne microbes. The negative correlation between the relative abundance of Cladosporiales MAG and PM10 concentrations indicate that its origin is dominated by local sources and likely includes the indoor environments found in the city.
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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
Corresponding Author
Keywords Aerobiome ; Airborne Fungi ; Cladosporiales ; Dust Storms ; Fungal Diversity ; Metagenome ; Metagenome-assembled Genome; Fungal; Bacterial; Genome; Diversity; Alignment; Communities; Microbiome; Annotation
ISSN (print) / ISBN 2309-608X
e-ISSN 2309-608X
Journal Journal of Fungi
Quellenangaben Volume: 7, Issue: 10, Pages: , Article Number: 802 Supplement: ,
Publisher MDPI
Publishing Place St Alban-anlage 66, Ch-4052 Basel, Switzerland
Non-patent literature Publications
Reviewing status Peer reviewed
Institute(s) Cooperation Group Comprehensive Molecular Analytics (CMA)
Grants Helmholtz Association (Berlin, Germany)
Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen
Simons Foundation
Israel Science Foundation
de Botton Center for Marine Science
Estate of Raymond Lapon
Estate of Betty Weneser
Seed for Peace