Abundance of fungal species in slug feces collected in a temperate forest

In the DNA barcoding study, a total of 288,630 OTU sequences were
recovered from feces of eight field-captured slugs. Major taxa were
Ascomycota (52.5%), Basidiomycota (46.1%), Mortierellomycota (0.2%),
Chytridiomycota (0.1%) and Mucoromycota (0.1%) (Table 2). In
Basidiomycota, 17 orders were detected (Table 2). The dominant order was
Agaricales (66.1%), followed by Trichosporonales (29.7%) and
Hymenochaetales (2.9%). In Agaricales, the dominant genera were Armillaria
(35.7%) and Gymnopilus (29.8%). The dominance of Agaricales spores may be
due to that the slugs used in this study were collected in September and
October when fruiting bodies of Agaricales were abundant.