Improved heat tolerance in air drives the recurrent evolution of air-breathing
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Giomi, F., Fusi, M., Barausse, A., Mostert, B., Portner, H., & Cannicci, S. (2014)
Improved heat tolerance in air drives the recurrent evolution of air-breathing. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1782), 20132927-20132927. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2927
The transition to air-breathing by formerly aquatic species has occurred repeat-edly and independently in fish, crabs and other animal phyla, but the proximatedrivers of this ...
Environmental latitudinal gradients and host specificity shape Symbiodiniaceae distribution in Red Sea Porites corals
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Terraneo, T. I., Fusi, M., Hume, B. C., Arrigoni, R., Voolstra, C. R., Benzoni, F., …Berumen, M. L. (2019)
Environmental latitudinal gradients and host specificity shape Symbiodiniaceae distribution in Red Sea Porites corals. Journal of Biogeography, 46(10), 2323-2335. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13672
Aim
To assess the diversity of algal symbionts of the family Symbiodiniaceae associated with the coral genus Porites in the Red Sea, and to test for host-specificity and envir...
Contrasting Effects of Local Environmental and Biogeographic Factors on the Composition and Structure of Bacterial Communities in Arid Monospecific Mangrove Soils
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Thomson, T., Fusi, M., Bennett-Smith, M. F., Prinz, N., Aylagas, E., Carvalho, S., …Ellis, J. I. (2022)
Contrasting Effects of Local Environmental and Biogeographic Factors on the Composition and Structure of Bacterial Communities in Arid Monospecific Mangrove Soils. Microbiology Spectrum, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.00903-21
Mangrove forests are important biotic sinks of atmospheric CO2 and play an integral role in nutrient-cycling and decontamination of coastal waters, thereby mitigating climatic...
Rhizosheath microbial community assembly of sympatric desert speargrasses is independent of the plant host
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Marasco, R., Mosqueira, M. J., Fusi, M., Ramond, J., Merlino, G., Booth, J. M., …Daffonchio, D. (2018)
Rhizosheath microbial community assembly of sympatric desert speargrasses is independent of the plant host. Microbiome, 6(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-018-0597-y
Background
The rhizosheath-root system is an adaptive trait of sandy-desert speargrasses in response to unfavourable moisture and nutritional conditions. Under the deserts’ po...
Ecology of the facultative phytotelmic crab Platychirarma buettikoferi (De Man, 1883) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Sesarmidae)
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Fusi, M., Bayi, J., Ngo-Massou, V., Din, N., Sacchi, A., Guebas, F. D., & Cannicci, S. (2021)
Ecology of the facultative phytotelmic crab Platychirarma buettikoferi (De Man, 1883) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Sesarmidae). Crustaceana, 94(9), 1043-1058. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685403-bja10148
The mangrove forests surrounding Douala, Cameroon, have a long history of human impact due to rapid urbanization, resulting in patches of true mangrove forest interspersed wit...
Compartmentalization of bacterial and fungal microbiomes in the gut of adult honeybees
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Callegari, M., Crotti, E., Fusi, M., Marasco, R., Gonella, E., De Noni, I., …Daffonchio, D. (2021)
Compartmentalization of bacterial and fungal microbiomes in the gut of adult honeybees. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 7, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-021-00212-9
The core gut microbiome of adult honeybee comprises a set of recurring bacterial phylotypes, accompanied by lineage-specific, variable, and less abundant environmental bacteri...
The stage of soil development modulates rhizosphere effect along a High Arctic desert chronosequence
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Mapelli, F., Marasco, R., Fusi, M., Scaglia, B., Tsiamis, G., Rolli, E., …Daffonchio, D. (2018)
The stage of soil development modulates rhizosphere effect along a High Arctic desert chronosequence. ISME Journal, 12(5), 1188-1198. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-017-0026-4
In mature soils, plant species and soil type determine the selection of root microbiota. Which of these two factors drives rhizosphere selection in barren substrates of develo...
The effect of plant domestication on host control of the microbiota
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Soldan, R., Fusi, M., Cardinale, M., Daffonchio, D., & Preston, G. M. (2021)
The effect of plant domestication on host control of the microbiota. Communications Biology, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02467-6
Macroorganisms are colonized by microbial communities that exert important biological and ecological functions, the composition of which is subject to host control and has the...
Ecological status and sources of anthropogenic contaminants in mangroves of the Wouri River Estuary (Cameroon)
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Fusi, M., Beone, G. M., Suciu, N. A., Sacchi, A., Trevisan, M., Capri, E., …Cannicci, S. (2016)
Ecological status and sources of anthropogenic contaminants in mangroves of the Wouri River Estuary (Cameroon). Marine Pollution Bulletin, 109(2), 723-733. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.06.104
Mangroves are critically threatened by human activities, despite the important ecosystem functions and services they provide. Mangroves in Cameroon represent no exception to t...
High denitrification and anaerobic ammonium oxidation contributes to net nitrogen loss in a seagrass ecosystem in the central Red Sea
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Garcias-Bonet, N., Fusi, M., Ali, M., Shaw, D. R., Saikaly, P. E., Daffonchio, D., & Duarte, C. M. (2018)
High denitrification and anaerobic ammonium oxidation contributes to net nitrogen loss in a seagrass ecosystem in the central Red Sea. Biogeosciences, 15(23), 7333-7346. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-7333-2018
Nitrogen loads in coastal areas have increased dramatically, with detrimental consequences for coastal ecosystems. Shallow sediments and seagrass meadows are hotspots for deni...