Fungi dominate eukaryotic microbial assemblages in hot spring biofilms of East and Southeast Asia
Subhasri Thirumaran, Christaline George, Chananwat Kortheerakul, Nitthiya Khunthong, Chitrabhanu Sharma Bhunjun, Chayanard Phukhamsakda, Kok-Gan Chan, Ying Chang, Eunice Jingmei Tan, Maurycy Daroch, Kevin D. Hyde, Kian Mau Goh, Rungaroon Waditee-Sirisattha, Stephen B. Pointing · 2025
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Description
Subhasri Thirumaran and fourteen co-authors survey the living films of forty-seven hot springs across East and Southeast Asia, and find fungi in charge. Hot springs are natural labs for life under heat stress, but research has centered on bacteria and archaea. Their 2025 study uses metagenomic sequencing on biofilms from springs of near-neutral acidity. The focus falls on the eukaryotic side of these communities, the fungi and their small kin. Fungi turned out to dominate those assemblages.
That result reshapes the picture of hot spring ecology, long drawn without eukaryotes. It also hints at heat-loving fungi as sources of hardy enzymes. The authors map the communities spring by spring. Their scale, spanning a region, lets pattern stand out from local noise.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Subhasri Thirumaran, Christaline George, Chananwat Kortheerakul, Nitthiya Khunthong, Chitrabhanu Sharma Bhunjun, Chayanard Phukhamsakda, Kok-Gan Chan, Ying Chang, Eunice Jingmei Tan, Maurycy Daroch, Kevin D. Hyde, Kian Mau Goh, Rungaroon Waditee-Sirisattha, Stephen B. Pointing |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |