Fungal diversity in deep-sea hydrothermal and cold-seep ecosystems: investigation and isolation of novel early fungi

2008 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 18570100
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Biodiversity/Systematics
• Research Institution: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
• Principal Investigator: NAGAHAMA Takahiko Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 極限環境生物圏研究センター, 研究員 (10359169)
• Project Period (FY): 2006 – 2008
• Keywords: 深海環境 / 真菌類 / 初期進化

Research Abstract

深海環境における真菌類の群集構造解析(環境抽出DNA クローン解析)と真菌類の分離培養法により、多様性を調査した。主に相模湾メタン冷湧水に由来する化学合成生態系環境からサンプリングを行い、出現菌類を比較した。培養法により得た真菌分離株の多くは子嚢菌類に属していた。
一方、出現したクローンの3 分の1 以上がツボカビ類に由来したが、これらは今回用いた分離培養法では単離することができず、未知の特異な代謝系を有する可能性があった。

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Two new Corollospora species and one new anamorph based on morphological and molecular data (2009)
  • Author(s): Mohamed A. Abdel-Wahab, Takahiko Nagahama, Faten A. Abdel-Aziz
  • Journal Title: Mycoscience 50 Pages: 147-155
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Dipodascus tetrasporeus sp. Nov., an ascosporogenous yeast isolated from deep-sea sediments in the Japan Trench (2008)
  • Author(s): Takahiko Nagahama, Mohamed A. Abdel-Wahab, Yuichi Nogi, Masayuki Miyazaki, Katsuyuki Uematsu, Makiko Hamamoto, Koki Horikoshi
  • Journal Title: International Journal of Systematic Evolutionary Microbiology 58 Pages: 1040-1046
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Amphritea japonica sp. Nov. and Amphritea balenae sp. Nov., isolated from the sediment adjacent to sperm whale carcasses off Kagoshima Japan (2008)
  • Author(s): Masayuki Miyazaki, Yuichi Nogi, Yoshihiro Fujiwara, Masaru Kawato, Takahiko Nagahama, Kaoru Kubokawa and Koki Horikoshi
  • Journal Title: International Journal of Systematic Evolutionary Microbiology 58 Pages: 2815-2820
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] 深海冷湧水域における好冷性真菌の分離と多様性 (2009)
  • Author(s): 高橋恵理子
  • Organizer: 日本農芸化学会大会
  • Place of Presentation: マリンメッセ福岡
  • Year and Date: 2009-03-28
• [Presentation] 相模湾冷湧水生態系の菌類多様性 (2008)
  • Author(s): 長濱統彦
  • Organizer: 日本菌学会第52 回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 三重大学
  • Year and Date: 2008-05-31
• [Presentation] Lignicolous marine fungi from Yokosuka, Japan (2008)
  • Author(s): Mohamed A. Abdel-Wahab
  • Organizer: 日本菌学会第52 回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 三重大学
  • Year and Date: 2008-05-31
• [Presentation] Fungal diversity in the whale-fall community at deep-sea floor (2007)
  • Author(s): Takahiko Nagahama
  • Organizer: the X~<th> International Marine and Freshwater Mycology Symposium
  • Place of Presentation: Hotel Park-Royal, Penang, Malaysia
  • Year and Date: 2007-12-10
• [Presentation] Taxonomy of the genus Corollospora with the description of three new species and one anamorph based on morphological and molecular data (2007)
  • Author(s): Mohamed A. Abdel-Wahab
  • Organizer: the X~<th> International Marine and Freshwater Mycology Symposium
  • Place of Presentation: Hotel Park-Royal, Penang, Malaysia
  • Year and Date: 2007-12-10
• [Presentation] 鯨骨生物群集域の真菌多様性と分離 (2007)
  • Author(s): 長濱統彦
  • Organizer: 第3 回進化原生生物研究会
  • Place of Presentation: (独)海洋研究開発機構・横浜研究所
  • Year and Date: 2007-07-07