Table 2 Ecological status of the uncultured fungi recovered from different soil samples of Deception Island, Antarctic Peninsula.

Opportunistic human and animal pathogens

Aphanoascus keratinophilus

0

19

Aspergillus sydowii

427

112

Aspergillus terreus

160

0

Blastobotrys proliferans

0

12

Candida parapsilosis

0

60

Curvularia lunata

91

29

Cutaneotrichosporon smithiae

0

64

Cyphellophora pluriseptata

24

0

Exophiala cancerae

43

0

Magnusiomyces capitatus

0

4

Malassezia dermatis

36

70

Malassezia globosa

5831

689

Malassezia restricta

11,413

3719

Malassezia slooffiae

35

0

Malassezia sympodialis

364

171

Malassezia yamatoensis

0

65

Papiliotrema laurentii

0

358

Pseudallescheria boydii

21

0

Pyrenochaeta keratinophila

0

8

Rhodotorula mucilaginosa

2565

2663

Sporothrix brasiliensis

0

46

Trichosporon asahii

158

68

Plant pathogens

Aspergillus niger

292

18

Colletotrichum annellatum

802

127

Colletotrichum brevisporum

0

16

Colletotrichum cliviae

0

2524

Curvularia lunata

91

29

Fusarium asiaticum

0

43

Fusarium oxysporum

0

139

Fusarium solani

0

115

Gibberella intricans

14

0

Gibberella tricincta

4

42

Gibberella zeae

32

278

Herpotrichia juniper

598

1074

Mycosphaerella tassiana

0

54

Nigrospora oryzae

2

5

Peniophora albobadia

5

0

Pestalotiopsis trachicarpicola

0

12

Pyrenochaeta keratinophila

0

8

Thanatephorus cucumeris

23

182

Volutella consors

26

0

Cleistothelebolus nipigonensis

980

12,637

Fungi able to form lichen thalli

Lecidea cancriformis

129

21

Lecidea sp.

0

19

Parmelina sp.

64

0

Placopsis sp.

35

0

Psoroma hypnorum

24

0

Psoroma tenue

590

205

Trimmatothelopsis smaragdula

73

177

Verrucaria alpicola

2305

985

Verrucaria humida

0

24

Verrucaria margacea

17

30

Verrucaria nodosa

253

0