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Umbelopsis angularis P8C34 growing in the lab.
Umbelopsis angularis P8C34 growing in the lab.
Image Credit: Mariana Kluge

Umbelopsis are zygomycetes commonly found in soil as saprobes (Egidi et al., 2019), including the Arctic (Geml et al., 2015). They are known for being oleaginous fungi, capable of intracellular lipid accumulation (Papanikolaou et al., 2019). The isolate P8C34 has been isolated from the sediment of thermokarst ponds in Abisko, Sweden. Thermokarst ponds, which emerge from the thawing permafrost, can be hotspots for microbial production and become an important source of greenhouse gas emissions (Abnizova et al., 2012). However, little is known about the fungal contribution in such water bodies when it comes to carbon degradation. The genome sequencing of fungal isolates from these environments aims to assess their functional potential, and to better understand the fungal contribution in the permafrost carbon feedback.

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