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Fimicolous myxomycetes: overview of their global distribution and scientific production

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Myxomycetes (Amoebozoa) can be found on a wide range of substrates and among these, the dung of several animal species, primarily herbivorous, in which case they are considered fimicolous. Dung can be a favourable substrate for myxomycete due its relatively high content of water, nutrients and microorganisms. Despite efforts to study fimicolous myxomycetes, there are still informational gaps on the geographical distribution and microhabitat details. Also, scientometric information on these organisms is scarce. This work was aimed to compile the occurrence of fimicolous myxomycetes, from published literature, for the period between 1900 and 2017, resulting in an update on their biogeographical and ecological information. Scientific production involving fimicolous myxomycetes is also discussed. Ninety-eight articles were retrieved, from which authors recorded a total of 544 occurrences classified in 126 myxomycetes species. These records were geographically associated with 51 countries, located primarily on the northern hemisphere. Most occurrences were reported on herbivore dung, mainly from cattle, horse, deer, rabbit/hare, sheep and camel. Arcyria cinerea, Didymium difforme, D. iridis, D. squamulosum, Fuligo cinerea, Kelleromyxa fimicola, Licea tenera, Perichaena chrysosperma, P. corticalis, P. depressa, Physarum apiculosporum, Ph. compressum, and Ph. didermoides were the most frequent species, with at least 10 records each. Despite an increase in scientific production on fimicolous myxomycetes during the studied period, the number of researchers dedicated to this group is low and the inter-institutional collaboration could be improved. It was observed that most authors have produced only one publication, claimed not to be specialists on the group and that tropical fimicolous myxomycetes have clearly been understudied. It is suggested that thematic networks and methodological standardization in molecular studies could increase and improve research on fimicolous myxomycetes. We highlight the importance of the inter-institutional partnership between researchers interested in the study of fimicolous myxomycetes, once access to these technologies is limited for many researchers, especially those in underdeveloped countries, such as Latin American, the formation of collaborative networks may facilitate the application of molecular approaches.

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To Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Goiás (FAPEG) for doctor scholarships granted to FJSC. To Filipe Guimarães Lima for generating the occurrence map and to Uno H. Eliasson, Carlos Lado, Marcos Lizárraga, Gabriel Moreno, Harold Keller, Steve L. Stephenson, Yuri K. Novozhilov, Wendell Medrado T. da Silva, Daria Erastova, Adam W. Rollins, Shuang-Lin Chen, François Valade and Michel Delpont, for providing access to some of the literature. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and efforts towards improving the final version of the manuscript.

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  1. Laboratório de Micologia Básica, Aplicada e Divulgação Científica – FungiLab, Universidade Estadual de Goiás, Campus Central, BR 153 n° 3.105, Fazenda Barreiro do Meio 75132-903, Anápolis, Goiás, Brazil

    Francisco J. Simões Calaça, Jéssica C. Araújo, Nathan C. Silva & Solange Xavier-Santos

  2. Via Cecioni 10, 57127, Livorno, Italy

    Gabriele Cacialli

  3. Engineering Research Institute and Department of Biosystems Engineering, University of Costa Rica, San Pedro de Montes de Oca, 11501, Costa Rica

    Carlos Rojas

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FJSC and SXS designed and directed the study. FJSC, JCA, NCS and GC performed the data sampling and statistical analysis. FJSC, SXS and CR contributed to the analysis and interpretation of the results. All authors discussed the results and contributed to the final manuscript.

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Calaça, F.S., Araújo, J.C., Cacialli, G. et al. Fimicolous myxomycetes: overview of their global distribution and scientific production. Biologia 75, 2159–2174 (2020). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11756-020-00578-9

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