Season, Vegetation Proximity and Building Age Shape the Indoor Fungal Communities' Composition at City-Scale.

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Title
Season, Vegetation Proximity and Building Age Shape the Indoor Fungal Communities' Composition at City-Scale.
Journal
Journal of fungi
Author(s)
Niculita-Hirzel H., Wild P., Hirzel A.H.
ISSN
2309-608X (Electronic)
ISSN-L
2309-608X
Publication state
Published
Issued date
03/10/2022
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
8
Number
10
Pages
1045
Language
english
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Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: epublish
Abstract
Exposure to particular microbiome compositions in the built environment can affect human health and well-being. Identifying the drivers of these indoor microbial assemblages is key to controlling the microbiota of the built environment. In the present study, we used culture and metabarcoding of the fungal Internal Transcribed Spacer ribosomal RNA region to assess whether small-scale variation in the built environment influences the diversity, composition and structure of indoor air fungal communities between a heating and an unheated season. Passive dust collectors were used to collect airborne fungi from 259 dwellings representative of three major building periods and five building environments in one city-Lausanne (Vaud, Switzerland)-over a heating and an unheated period. A homogenous population (one or two people with an average age of 75 years) inhabited the households. Geographic information systems were used to assess detailed site characteristics (altitude, proximity to forest, fields and parks, proximity to the lake, and density of buildings and roads) for each building. Our analysis indicated that season was the factor that explained most of the variation in colonies forming unit (CFU) concentration and indoor mycobiome composition, followed by the period of building construction. Fungal assemblages were more diverse during the heating season than during the unheated season. Buildings with effective insulation had distinct mycobiome compositions from those built before 1975 - regardless of whether they were constructed with pre-1945 technology and materials or 1945 - 1974 ones. The urban landscape-as a whole-was a significant predictor of cultivable Penicillium load-the closer the building was to the lake, the higher the Penicillium load-but not of fungal community composition. Nevertheless, the relative abundance of eleven fungal taxa detected by metabarcoding decreased significantly with the urbanization gradient. When urban landscape descriptors were analyzed separately, the explanatory power of proximity to vegetation in shaping fungal assemblages become significant, indicating that land cover type had an influence on fungal community structure that was obscured by the effects of building age and sampling season. In conclusion, indoor mycobiomes are strongly modulated by season, and their assemblages are shaped by the effectiveness of building insulation, but are weakly influenced by the urban landscape.
Keywords
indoor air quality, urban mycobiome, built environment, metabarcoding, culture
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Yes
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377 CHF
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