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Diversity and Composition of Airborne Fungal Community Associated with Particulate Matters in Beijing during Haze and Non-haze Days

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Title
Diversity and Composition of Airborne Fungal Community Associated with Particulate Matters in Beijing during Haze and Non-haze Days
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Frontiers in Microbiology, April 2016
DOI 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00487
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Dong Yan, Tao Zhang, Jing Su, Li-Li Zhao, Hao Wang, Xiao-Mei Fang, Yu-Qin Zhang, Hong-Yu Liu, Li-Yan Yu

Abstract

To assess the diversity and composition of airborne fungi associated with particulate matters (PMs) in Beijing, China, a total of 81 PM samples were collected, which were derived from PM2.5, PM10 fractions, and total suspended particles during haze and non-haze days. The airborne fungal community in these samples was analyzed using the Illumina Miseq platform with fungi-specific primers targeting the internal transcribed spacer 1 region of the large subunit rRNA gene. A total of 797,040 reads belonging to 1633 operational taxonomic units were observed. Of these, 1102 belonged to Ascomycota, 502 to Basidiomycota, 24 to Zygomycota, and 5 to Chytridiomycota. The dominant orders were Pleosporales (29.39%), Capnodiales (27.96%), Eurotiales (10.64%), and Hypocreales (9.01%). The dominant genera were Cladosporium, Alternaria, Fusarium, Penicillium, Sporisorium, and Aspergilus. Analysis of similarities revealed that both particulate matter sizes (R = 0.175, p = 0.001) and air quality levels (R = 0.076, p = 0.006) significantly affected the airborne fungal community composition. The relative abundance of many fungal genera was found to significantly differ among various PM types and air quality levels. Alternaria and Epicoccum were more abundant in total suspended particles samples, Aspergillus in heavy-haze days and PM2.5 samples, and Malassezia in PM2.5 samples and heavy-haze days. Canonical correspondence analysis and permutation tests showed that temperature (p < 0.01), NO2 (p < 0.01), PM10 (p < 0.01), SO2(p < 0.01), CO (p < 0.01), and relative humidity (p < 0.05) were significant factors that determine airborne fungal community composition. The results suggest that diverse airborne fungal communities are associated with particulate matters and may provide reliable data for studying the responses of human body to the increasing level of air pollution in Beijing.

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Unknown 89 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 18%
Student > Master 13 15%
Researcher 10 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 8%
Student > Bachelor 4 4%
Other 14 16%
Unknown 25 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 19 21%
Environmental Science 10 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 9%
Immunology and Microbiology 6 7%
Engineering 5 6%
Other 11 12%
Unknown 30 34%
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