Best practices in metabarcoding of fungi: from experimental design to results

L Tedersoo, M Bahram, L Zinger, RH Nilsson… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The development of high‐throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies has greatly improved
our capacity to identify fungi and unveil their ecological roles across a variety of ecosystems …

Alternaria alternata as endophyte and pathogen

M DeMers - Microbiology, 2022 - microbiologyresearch.org
Alternaria alternata is a common species of fungus frequently isolated from plants as both an
endophyte and a pathogen. Although the current definition of A. alternata rests on a …

The UNITE database for molecular identification and taxonomic communication of fungi and other eukaryotes: sequences, taxa and classifications reconsidered

K Abarenkov, RH Nilsson, KH Larsson… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract UNITE (https://unite. ut. ee) is a web-based database and sequence management
environment for molecular identification of eukaryotes. It targets the nuclear ribosomal …

The numbers of fungi: are the most speciose genera truly diverse?

CS Bhunjun, T Niskanen, N Suwannarach… - Fungal Diversity, 2022 - Springer
Fungi play vital roles in ecosystems as endophytes, pathogens and saprobes. The current
estimate of fungal diversity is highly uncertain, ranging from 1.5 to 12 million, but only …

Mycobiota and diet-derived fungal xenosiderophores promote Salmonella gastrointestinal colonization

W Santus, AP Rana, JR Devlin, KA Kiernan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The fungal gut microbiota (mycobiota) has been implicated in diseases that disturb gut
homeostasis, such as inflammatory bowel disease. However, little is known about functional …

[HTML][HTML]  How, not if, is the question mycologists should be asking about DNA-based typification

RH Nilsson, M Ryberg, C Wurzbacher, L Tedersoo… - MycoKeys, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 Abstract Fungal metabarcoding of substrates such as soil, wood, and water is uncovering
an unprecedented number of fungal species that do not seem to produce tangible …

Current insight into culture-dependent and culture-independent methods in discovering Ascomycetous Taxa

NN Wijayawardene, M Bahram, I Sánchez-Castro… - Journal of Fungi, 2021 - mdpi.com
Culture techniques are vital in both traditional and modern fungal taxonomy. Establishing
sexual–asexual links and synanamorphs, extracting DNA and secondary metabolites are …

Widespread bacterial diversity within the bacteriome of fungi

AJ Robinson, GL House, DP Morales… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Knowledge of associations between fungal hosts and their bacterial associates has
steadily grown in recent years as the number and diversity of examinations have increased …

A globally integrated structure of taxonomy to support biodiversity science and conservation

EL Sandall, AA Maureaud, R Guralnick… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2023 - cell.com
All aspects of biodiversity research, from taxonomy to conservation, rely on data associated
with species names. Effective integration of names across multiple fields is paramount and …

COInr and mkCOInr: Building and customizing a nonredundant barcoding reference database from BOLD and NCBI using a semi‐automated pipeline

E Meglécz - Molecular Ecology Resources, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Reference databases with wide taxonomic coverage are greatly needed in many fields of
biology, most particularly for the taxonomic assignment of metabarcoding sequences …