title: Fungal biodiversity in the periglacial soil of Dosdè Glacier (Valtellina, Northern Italy).
abstract: Periglacial areas are one of the least studied habitats on Earth, especially in terms of their fungal communities. In this work, both molecular and culture-dependent methods have been used to analyse the microfungi in soils sampled on the front of the East Dosdè Glacier (Valtellina, Northern Italy). Although this survey revealed a community that was rich in fungal species, a distinct group of psychrophilic microfungi has not been detected. Most of the isolated microfungi were mesophiles, which are well adapted to the sensitive climatic changes that occur in this alpine environment. A discrepancy in the results that were obtained by means of the two diagnostic approaches suggests that the used molecular methods cannot entirely replace traditional culture-dependent methods, and vice versa.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell'Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: Marinella
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rodolfi
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento Agroecosistemi Sostenibile e Biorisorse, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Centro Ricerca e Innovazione, San Michele all'Adige (TN), Italy.
authors.forename: Claudia Maria Oliveira
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Longa
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento Agroecosistemi Sostenibile e Biorisorse, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Centro Ricerca e Innovazione, San Michele all'Adige (TN), Italy.
authors.forename: Ilaria
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Pertot
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell'Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: Solveig
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tosi
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell'Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Savino
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell'Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Guglielminetti
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell'Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: Elisa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Altobelli
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell'Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Del Frate
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell'Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: Anna Maria
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Picco
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D044822:Biodiversity; D003081:Cold Climate; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics; D017753:Ecosystem; D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D005658:Fungi / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D046448:Ice Cover / Q000382:microbiology*; D007558:Italy; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012987:Soil / Q000737:chemistry; D012988:Soil Microbiology
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal; D012987:Soil
keywords: Culturable analysis; Microfungi; PCR-DGGE analysis; Periglacial areas; Soil