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dc.contributor.authorHassett, Brandon
dc.contributor.authorAl-Shaibi, Badriya K.
dc.contributor.authorAl-Nabhani, Abdulrahman
dc.contributor.authorAl-Sadi, Abdullah M.
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-07T12:52:50Z
dc.date.available2021-05-07T12:52:50Z
dc.date.issued2020-06-12
dc.description.abstractOman is a desert country in the south of the Middle East. Springs and other water sources that harbor aquatic organisms can be separated by hundreds of kilometers. In Oct 2019, we isolated four freshwater aquatic fungi (Chytridiomycota) from benthic detritus baited with pine pollen on a general nutrient medium near Salalah, Oman. Database queries of nuc 28S rRNA (28S) and internal transcribed spacer region ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 (ITS) revealed that one of these strains was Dinochytrium kinnereticum, a recently described algal pathogen from the Sea of Galilee. The other three strains had low molecular identity to available ITS sequences. These unknown strains varied in size and released endogenously swarming zoospores through papillae from mature zoosporangia. Zoospore ultrastructure was consistent with described species in the Rhizophydiales, and molecular phylogenetic results grouped these three strains into a clade in the genus Rhizophydium. We circumscribe these three strains as a sp. nov., thereby expanding the diversity within Rhizophydium described as the new species R. jobii. In doing so, we provide the first report of Chytridiomycota from Oman.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHassett BT, Al-Shaibi, Al-Nabhani, Al-Sadi. New species of aquatic chytrids from Oman. Mycologia. 2020;112(4):781-791en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1899671
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00275514.2020.1761226
dc.identifier.issn0027-5514
dc.identifier.issn1557-2536
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/21163
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.journalMycologia
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2020 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480en_US
dc.titleNew species of aquatic chytrids from Omanen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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