Marine Fungi: Opportunities and Challenges

Marine fungi play a crucial role in energy flow and nutrient recycling, mediating the cycling of dissolved organic matter marine environments. However, despite being prolific group organisms, have been largely neglected for long time. Besides their importance food web, represent an active source natural products. Over last years, researchers focused on studying organisms to discover new metabolites with antibacterial, antiviral, anticancer activities. Moreover, advances high-throughput sequencing technologies mass spectrometry techniques, genomic metabolomic approaches revealed be paramount products discovery. The mycobiome includes many still identified, ones already known are underutilized biotechnological applications. For this reason, it is undeniable that exploring including habitats substrates, even those remote access, fundamental describing true magnitude Earth’s mycobiome.