Presence of Aspergillus sydowii, a pathogen of gorgonian sea fans in the marine sponge Spongia obscura

ISME Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 752-755

  Ein Gil, Neta ^a,b   Ilan, Micha ^a   Carmeli, Shmuel ^a   Smith, Garriet W ^c   Pawlik, Joseph R ^d   Yarden, Oded ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AIKEN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical ecology; Gorgonia ventalina; Spongia obscura

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS SYDOWII; FUNGI; GORGONACEA; GORGONIA; GORGONIA VENTALINA; SPONGIA OBSCURA;

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S; TRPC PROTEIN, FUNGI;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOGENICITY; RNA GENE; SPONGE (PORIFERA);

ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS; CARIBBEAN REGION; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, RRNA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PORIFERA; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 67549102550     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2009.18     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Garrison VH, Shinn EA, Foreman WT, Griffin DW, Holmes CW, Kellogg CA et al. (2003). African and Asian dust: from desert soils to coral reefs. Bioscience 53: 469-480.
2. Geiser DM, Klich MA, Frisvad JC, Peterson SW, Varga J, Samson RA. (2007). The current status of species recognition and identification in Aspergillus. Stud Mycol 59: 1-10.
3. Geiser DM, Taylor JW, Ritchie KB, Smith GW. (1998). Cause of sea-fan death in the West Indies. Nature 394: 137-138.
4. Hamasaki T, Nagayama K, Hatsuda Y. (1978). Two new metabolites, sydonic acid and hydroxysydonic acid, from Aspergillus sydowi. Agric Biol Chem 42: 37-40.
5. Hamasaki T, Sato Y, Hatsuda Y. (1975). Isolation of new metabolites from Aspergillus sydowi and structure of sydowic acid. Agric Biol Chem 39: 2337-2340.
6. Holler U, Wright A, Matthee G, Konig GM, Draeger S, Aust H-J et al. (2000). Fungi from marine sponges: diversity, biological activity and secondary metabolites. Mycol Res 104: 1354-1365.
7. Pettit GR. (1997). Antifungal activity of the spongistatins. United States Patent 5883120.
8. Rosenberg E, Loya Y. (2004). Coral Health and Disease. Springer-Verlag: New York, USA.
9. Roth FJ, Orpurt PA, Ahearn DG. (1964). Occurance and distribution of fungi in a subtropical marine environment. Can J Bot 42: 375-383.
10. Rypien KL, Andras JP, Harvell CD. (2008). Globally panmictic population structure in the opportunistic fungal pathogen Aspergillus sydowii. Mol Ecol 17: 4068-4078.
11. Smith GW, Ives LD, Nagelkerken IA, Ritchie KB. (1996). Caribbean sea-fan mortalities. Nature 383: 487.
12. Weir JR, Garrison V, Smith GW, Shinn EA. (2004). The relationship between gorgonian coral (Cnidaria: Gorgonacea) disease and African dust storms. Aerobiologia 20: 119-126.