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Metabarcode insights into the airborne fungal diversity in the indoor and outdoor environments in archives from Yunnan, Southwestern China

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Monitoring dynamics of airborne fungal species and controlling of harmful ones are of vital importance to conservation of cultural relics. However, the evaluation of air quality and the community structure characteristics of microorganisms, especially fungi, in the atmosphere of archives is in a stage of continuous exploration though more than 4,000 archives were constructed in China. Seventy-two air samples were collected in this study under different spatial and weather conditions from the archives of Kunming Medical University, located in the Kunming metropolitan area, Yunnan province, southwestern China. A total of 22 airborne fungal classes, 160 genera and 699 ASVs were identified, the species diversity is on the rise with the strengthening of air circulation with the outside space, and thus the intensive energy metabolism and activity were found in the spaces with window and sunny weather, except for the higher lipid synthesis of indoor samples than that of outdoor ones. Furthermore, there were significant differences in fungal community composition and abundance between sunny and rainy weathers. A considerable number of species have been identified as indicator in various environmental and weather conditions of the archives, and temperature and humidity were thought to have significant correlations with the abundance of these species. Meanwhile, Cladosporium and Alternaria were the dominant genera here, which may pose a threat to the health of archive professionals. Therefore, monitoring and controlling the growth of these fungal species is crucial for both conservation of paper records and health of archive professionals.

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This research was jointly funded by the Department of Science and Technology of Yunnan Province (202101AY070001-072) to YW and National Natural Science Foundation of China (32270018) to YZ.

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  1. State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources in Yunnan, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650032, China

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  3. The School of Health, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, 350100, China

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  4. School of Basic Medicine, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, 650500, China

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Conceptualization, Y.Z. and Y.W.; methodology, Q.Z., L.Z., Y. H., L.Y.; software, Q.Z., L.Z. and Y. H.; validation, Y.Z., Y.W., Q.Z. and L.Z.; formal analysis, Q.Z., L.Z. and Y. H.; investigation, Y. H., L.Y. and Q. X. Z.; resources, Y. H., L.Y. and Q. X. Z.; data curation, Q.Z., L.Z., Y. H. and L.Y.; writing—original draft preparation, Q.Z. and L.Z.; writing—review and editing, Y.Z., Y.W., Q.Z. and L.Z.; visualization, Y.Z., Y.W., Q.Z. and L.Z.; supervision, Y.Z. and Y.W.; project administration, Y.Z. and Y.W.; funding acquisition, Y.Z. and Y.W. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

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Zhang, Q., Wang, Y., Hou, Y. et al. Metabarcode insights into the airborne fungal diversity in the indoor and outdoor environments in archives from Yunnan, Southwestern China. Braz J Microbiol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42770-024-01323-z

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