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Freshwater habitats are rich in fungi with some 3,000 described species, most literature focussing on their identification, substrata they grow on and world distribution. However, these fungi play an important role in the freshwater ecosystem, and are primarily involved in the breakdown of leaf litt...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2014] ©2014 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Marine and freshwater botany
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| Summary: |
Freshwater habitats are rich in fungi with some 3,000 described species, most literature focussing on their identification, substrata they grow on and world distribution. However, these fungi play an important role in the freshwater ecosystem, and are primarily involved in the breakdown of leaf litter contributing food for detritus feeders. This book will bring together a wide range of acclaimed mycologists to review recent developments on the biology and ecology of freshwater fungi, particularly their molecular phylogeny, biodiversity, causative diseases of freshwater amphibians, fishes and invertebrate animals, decomposition of leaf litter, stream pollution and their potential role in bioremediation. |
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1 online resource (xxii, 488 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110333480 |
| Index Number: | QK618 |
| CLC: | Q935 |
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of contributing authors -- 1. Introduction / 2. Phylogeny of the Dothideomycetes and other classes of freshwater fissitunicate Ascomycota / 3. The molecular phylogeny of freshwater Sordariomycetes and discomycetes / 4. F reshwater Basidiomycota / 5. Taxonomy of filamentous asexual fungi from freshwater habitats, links to sexual morphs and their phylogeny / 6. Phylogeny and characterization of freshwater Chytridiomycota (Chytridiomycetes and Monoblepharidomycetes) / 7. Microsporidia / 8. Phylogenetic relationships of Pythiales and Peronosporales (Oomycetes, Straminipila) within the "peronosporalean galaxy" / 9. The ecological and economic importance of zoosporic Mesomycetozoean (Dermocystida) parasites of freshwater fish / 10. I nfection strategies of pathogenic oomycetes in fish / 11. Zoosporic parasites of amphibians / 12. Pythiosis / 13. Zoosporic parasites of phytoplankton / 14. Zoosporic parasites of freshwater inverte |