ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2026
Plastic-Colonizing Fungi in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: Community Structure and Physiological and Transcriptional Responses of
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Marine plastic debris provides persistent artificial substrates for microbial colonization, yet the fungal component of the plastisphere remains poorly characterized. Using ITS metabarcoding and culture-based isolation approaches, we characterized the early mycobiome associated with polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS), and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic pellets deployed in an Eastern Mediterranean Sea (EMS) marina. The sequence-based communities were taxonomically heterogeneous, with only a limited effect of polymer type. Ascomycota, Zoopagomycota, and Basidiomycota were the dominant phyla identified by the ITS sequence analysis, while
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