Phylogenies of fungi isolated from the seagrass, Zostera marina

Fungi in the marine environment are often neglected, despite that they having critical roles on land as decomposers, pathogens or beneficial endophytes. We used culture-dependent methods to survey the fungi associated with the seagrass, Zostera marina, and then placed these sequences in the fungal tree of life. Four different sequence alignments were generated, (1) an alignment to investigate seagrass isolates in the Basidiomycota and Zygomycota phyla, (2) an alignment to investigate seagrass isolates in the Eurotiomycetes class in the Ascomycota phylum, (3) an alignment to investigate seagrass isolates in the Sordariomycetes class in the Ascomycota phylum, and (4) an alignment to investigate seagrass isolates in the Dothideomycetes class in the Ascomycota phylum.