AUTHOR=Crognale Silvia , D'Annibale Alessandro , Pesciaroli Lorena , Stazi Silvia R. , Petruccioli Maurizio TITLE=Fungal Community Structure and As-Resistant Fungi in a Decommissioned Gold Mine Site JOURNAL=Frontiers in Microbiology VOLUME=8 YEAR=2017 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02202 DOI=10.3389/fmicb.2017.02202 ISSN=1664-302X ABSTRACT=
Although large quantities of heavy metal laden wastes are released in an uncontrolled manner by gold mining activities with ensuing contamination of the surrounding areas, there is scant information on the mycobiota of gold-mine sites. Thus, the present study was aimed to describe the fungal community structure in three differently As- and Hg-polluted soils collected from the Pestarena decommissioned site by using Illumina® metabarcoding. Fungal richness was found to increase as the contamination level increased while biodiversity was not related to the concentrations of inorganic toxicants. Within the phylum Zygomigota which, irrespective of the contamination level, was predominant in all the soils under study, the most abundant genera were