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Miller, Andrew N. Yannarell, Anthony Dalling, James Wahl, Hannah E 2017-08-10T19:15:25Z 2017-08-10T19:15:25Z 2017-04-24 2017-05 Fungi are diverse organisms found in nearly every global environment as key components in nutrient cycling and decomposition. To date, most fungal diversity has been documented from terrestrial habitats leaving aquatic habitats rarely explored. Even less is known about fungi inhabiting freshwater lakes, particularly the benthic zone that may serve as an untapped resource for fungal biodiversity. This study aimed towards understanding the diversity of fungi in one of the largest freshwater systems on Earth, the North American Laurentian Great Lakes. This study employed both culture-dependent and culture-independent environmental sequencing methods resulting in ~425 taxa, with 6% sequence overlap between these two methods. Further analysis indicates that fungal communities in the Great Lakes differ across depths indicating potential fungal diversity ‘hotspots’. These results indicate that fungal communities do exist in the benthic region and should be examined using both culture-dependent and culture-independent methods for a more complete snapshot of fungal communities. Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2017-08-10 without embargo terms The student, Hannah Wahl, accepted the attached license on 2017-04-18 at 19:51. The student, Hannah Wahl, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2017-04-18 at 19:59. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2017-04-24 at 17:24. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10874 on 2017-08-10 at 13:42:11 Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-10T19:15:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 WAHL-THESIS-2017.pdf: 56203398 bytes, checksum: 65181f418ec44ef7df97b1d3d2f43bdf (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4208 bytes, checksum: 1c37ce7d48f59724d7e98c0363122ea5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-04-24 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/97400 en Copyright 2017 Hannah Wahl Freshwater fungi Aquatic fungi Great Lakes Next-generation sequencing What lies beneath? Fungal diversity at the bottom of the Great Lakes text text Plant Biology Plant Biology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S.