Periodic Reporting for period 1 - CRYPTRANS (Characterization of newly discovered but poorly understood fungal-driven trophic processes in freshwater lake ecosystems by metatranscriptomic)

Fungi are the primary degraders of plant matter and are globally important for the oxygen/carbon dioxide balance, among many other things. The origin of fungi is clearly aquatic, since we find most of the early diverging fungal lineages in freshwater and marine ecosystems...