Integrating effects of chytrid parasitism into carbon flows in pelagic food webs

• Applicant: Ramsy Agha, Ph.D.
• Subject Area: Hydrogeology, Hydrology, Limnology, Urban Water Management, Water Chemistry, Integrated Water Resources Management
• Term: from 2018 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 414953159

• Final Report Year: 2022

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Publications

• Biological Concepts for the Control of Aquatic Zoosporic Diseases. Trends in Parasitology, 35(7), 571-582.
  Frenken, Thijs; Agha, Ramsy; Schmeller, Dirk S.; van West, Pieter & Wolinska, Justyna
  
• Comparison of sterol and fatty acid profiles of chytrids and their hosts reveals trophic upgrading of nutritionally inadequate phytoplankton by fungal parasites. Environmental Microbiology, 21(3), 949-958.
  Gerphagnon, Mélanie; Agha, Ramsy; Martin‐Creuzburg, Dominik; Bec, Alexandre; Perriere, Fanny; Rad‐Menéndez, Cecilia; Gachon, Claire M.M. & Wolinska, Justyna
  
• Fungicides at environmentally relevant concentrations can promote the proliferation of toxic bloom-forming cyanobacteria by inhibiting natural fungal parasite epidemics. Chemosphere, 229, 18-21.
  Ortiz-Cañavate, Bruno Kenji; Wolinska, Justyna & Agha, Ramsy
  
• Potentials and limitations of quantification of fungi in freshwater environments based on PLFA profiles. Fungal Ecology, 41 (2019, 10), 256-268.
  Taube, Robert; Fabian, Jenny; Van den Wyngaert, Silke; Agha, Ramsy; Baschien, Christiane; Gerphagnon, Mélanie; Kagami, Maiko; Krüger, Angela & Premke, Katrin
  
• Infection of filamentous phytoplankton by fungal parasites enhances herbivory in pelagic food webs. Limnology and Oceanography, 65(11), 2618-2626.
  Frenken, Thijs; Wolinska, Justyna; Tao, Yile; Rohrlack, Thomas & Agha, Ramsy
  
• Light intensity and spectral distribution affect chytrid infection of cyanobacteriaviamodulation of host fitness. Parasitology, 147(11), 1206-1215.
  Tao, Yile; Wolinska, Justyna; Hölker, Franz & Agha, Ramsy
  
• Exposure to nanoplastics affects the outcome of infectious disease in phytoplankton. Environmental Pollution, 277, 116781.
  Schampera, Charlotte; Wolinska, Justyna; Bachelier, Julien B.; de, Souza Machado Anderson Abel; Rosal, Roberto; González-Pleiter, Miguel & Agha, Ramsy
  
• Fate of hepatotoxin microcystin during infection of cyanobacteria by fungal chytrid parasites. Harmful Algae, 118 (2022, 10), 102288.
  Agha, Ramsy; Gerphagnon, Mélanie; Schampera, Charlotte; Rohrlack, Thomas; Fastner, Jutta & Wolinska, Justyna
  
• Parasites do not adapt to elevated temperature, as evidenced from experimental evolution of a phytoplankton–fungus system. Biology Letters, 18(2).
  Schampera, Charlotte; Agha, Ramsy; Manzi, Florent & Wolinska, Justyna
  
• Prior exposure of a fungal parasite to cyanobacterial extracts does not impair infection of its Daphnia host. Hydrobiologia, 849(12), 2731-2744.
  Manzi, Florent; Agha, Ramsy; Mühlenhaupt, Max & Wolinska, Justyna
  
• Seasonality of parasitic and saprotrophic zoosporic fungi: linking sequence data to ecological traits. The ISME Journal, 16(9), 2242-2254.
  Van den Wyngaert, Silke; Ganzert, Lars; Seto, Kensuke; Rojas-Jimenez, Keilor; Agha, Ramsy; Berger, Stella A; Woodhouse, Jason; Padisak, Judit; Wurzbacher, Christian; Kagami, Maiko & Grossart, Hans-Peter