Integrative approaches for species delimitation in Ascomycota

SSN Maharachchikumbura, Y Chen, HA Ariyawansa… - Fungal Diversity, 2021 - Springer
Biodiversity loss from disturbances caused by human activities means that species are
disappearing at an ever increasing rate. The high number of species that have yet to be …

How to fail at species delimitation

BC Carstens, TA Pelletier, NM Reid… - Molecular ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Species delimitation is the act of identifying species‐level biological diversity. In recent
years, the field has witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of methods available for …

Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding?

R Lücking, MC Aime, B Robbertse, AN Miller… - IMA fungus, 2020 - Springer
True fungi (Fungi) and fungus-like organisms (eg Mycetozoa, Oomycota) constitute the
second largest group of organisms based on global richness estimates, with around 3 …

Multi-rate Poisson tree processes for single-locus species delimitation under maximum likelihood and Markov chain Monte Carlo

P Kapli, S Lutteropp, J Zhang, K Kobert… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Motivation In recent years, molecular species delimitation has become a routine approach
for quantifying and classifying biodiversity. Barcoding methods are of particular importance …

The Faces of Fungi database: fungal names linked with morphology, phylogeny and human impacts

SC Jayasiri, KD Hyde, HA Ariyawansa, J Bhat, B Buyck… - Fungal diversity, 2015 - Springer
Taxonomic names are key links between various databases that store information on
different organisms. Several global fungal nomenclural and taxonomic databases (notably …

Complementary combination of multiplex high‐throughput DNA sequencing for molecular phylogeny

Y Suyama, SK Hirota, A Matsuo, Y Tsunamoto… - 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid development of DNA sequencing technology in recent years has provided new
tools for phylogenetic data acquisition. By using high‐throughput DNA sequencing …

Delimiting species using single-locus data and the Generalized Mixed Yule Coalescent approach: a revised method and evaluation on simulated data sets

T Fujisawa, TG Barraclough - Systematic biology, 2013 - academic.oup.com
DNA barcoding-type studies assemble single-locus data from large samples of individuals
and species, and have provided new kinds of data for evolutionary surveys of diversity. An …

The seven deadly sins of DNA barcoding

RA Collins, RH Cruickshank - Molecular ecology resources, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the broad benefits that DNA barcoding can bring to a diverse range of biological
disciplines, a number of shortcomings still exist in terms of the experimental design of …

[HTML][HTML] Species boundaries in the human pathogen Paracoccidioides

DA Turissini, OM Gomez, MM Teixeira… - Fungal Genetics and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The use of molecular taxonomy for identifying recently diverged species has transformed the
study of speciation in fungi. The pathogenic fungus Paracoccidioides spp has been …

DNA-based species delimitation in algae

F Leliaert, H Verbruggen… - European journal of …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Given the problems of species delimitation in algae using morphology or sexual
compatibility, molecular data are becoming the standard for delimiting species and testing …