When speaking of microorganisms in the ocean is generally believed in bacteria. But there are other microorganisms: fungi. These are higher organisms and belong to the Eukarya domain, so that your metabolism is more similar to higher organisms. They have very diverse life forms, including: mycelium, yeast and pseudohyphae. At the same time are possessed of his own kingdom: the Kingdom Fungi. Within this realm there are very primitive organisms, as well as more advanced and specialized agencies. In the ocean fungal communities similar to the first communities of organisms that colonized the land Eukaryotes. These communities, along with other microorganisms, are the first to react to environmental disruption. Therefore, knowing the composition of fungi deep-sea sediments in the ocean today, will serve as a benchmark to compare the same community months later after a severe environmental impact as it was the oil spill of the platform "Deepwater Horizon."
However to find mushrooms in the sea does not expect to find something like this:
But rather something like
Yes, marine fungi are not seen with the naked eye and would need aid of a microscope to see, although in most cases could not see the case. So what do they look? Look like after a procedure with several molecular techniques, where basically what you see is your DNA.
The reason that molecular tools are required, it is because the majority of marine fungi can not grow in culture and would have to analyze liters of water to be lucky enough to find the mycelium (or yeast or pseudohyphae) of a fungus in order to analyze . On the other hand, samples of marine sediments are not easily observable under a microscope, so that the observation of fungi in itself is quite complicated. Therefore, we know of the existence of many fungi only by its DNA sequence and their isolation for observation and morphological characteristics have been impossible.
sampling for analysis of fungi has been carried out by taking samples of sediment from the corer.
As explained above, the corer out full of sediment, the organisms inhabiting the sediment surface as the sampling is done on the surface. Open needles are inserted at both ends:
And from there it takes approximately One gram of sediment which is stored is a special solution that keeps cells protected until processing.
But not all work ....
When you have taken all the sediment samples, spare a lot of mud which is used for recreation time and shape some souvenirs:)
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