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Abundance of fungal species in slug feces collected in a temperate forest

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Aug 03, 2022 version files 43.29 KB

Abstract

In the DNA barcoding study, a total of 288,630 OTU sequences were recovered from feces of eight field-captured slugs. Major taxa were Ascomycota (52.5%), Basidiomycota (46.1%), Mortierellomycota (0.2%), Chytridiomycota (0.1%) and Mucoromycota (0.1%) (Table 2). In Basidiomycota, 17 orders were detected (Table 2). The dominant order was Agaricales (66.1%), followed by Trichosporonales (29.7%) and Hymenochaetales (2.9%). In Agaricales, the dominant genera were Armillaria (35.7%) and Gymnopilus (29.8%). The dominance of Agaricales spores may be due to that the slugs used in this study were collected in September and October when fruiting bodies of Agaricales were abundant.