Mycobiome diversity: high-throughput sequencing and identification of fungi

RH Nilsson, S Anslan, M Bahram… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Fungi are major ecological players in both terrestrial and aquatic environments by cycling
organic matter and channelling nutrients across trophic levels. High-throughput sequencing …

Fungal functional ecology: bringing a trait‐based approach to plant‐associated fungi

AE Zanne, K Abarenkov, ME Afkhami… - Biological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fungi play many essential roles in ecosystems. They facilitate plant access to nutrients and
water, serve as decay agents that cycle carbon and nutrients through the soil, water and …

The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi: handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications

RH Nilsson, KH Larsson, AFS Taylor… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract UNITE (https://unite. ut. ee/) is a web-based database and sequence management
environment for the molecular identification of fungi. It targets the formal fungal barcode—the …

High-throughput sequencing view on the magnitude of global fungal diversity

P Baldrian, T Větrovský, C Lepinay, P Kohout - Fungal Diversity, 2022 - Springer
High-throughput DNA sequencing has dramatically transformed several areas of biodiversity
research including mycology. Despite limitations, high-throughput sequencing is nowadays …

Large-scale generation and analysis of filamentous fungal DNA barcodes boosts coverage for kingdom fungi and reveals thresholds for fungal species and higher …

D Vu, M Groenewald, M De Vries… - Studies in …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Species identification lies at the heart of biodiversity studies that has in recent years
favoured DNA-based approaches. Microbial Biological Resource Centres are a rich source …

The taxon hypothesis paradigm—on the unambiguous detection and communication of taxa

U Kõljalg, HR Nilsson, D Schigel, L Tedersoo… - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
Here, we describe the taxon hypothesis (TH) paradigm, which covers the construction,
identification, and communication of taxa as datasets. Defining taxa as datasets of …

A pile of pipelines: An overview of the bioinformatics software for metabarcoding data analyses

A Hakimzadeh, A Abdala Asbun… - Molecular Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has gained growing attention as a strategy for
monitoring biodiversity in ecology. However, taxa identifications produced through …

Sequence-based classification and identification of Fungi

D Hibbett, K Abarenkov, U Kõljalg, M Öpik, B Chai… - Mycologia, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Fungal taxonomy and ecology have been revolutionized by the application of molecular
methods and both have increasing connections to genomics and functional biology …

Identifying the 'unidentified'fungi: a global-scale long-read third-generation sequencing approach

L Tedersoo, S Anslan, M Bahram, U Kõljalg… - Fungal Diversity, 2020 - Springer
Molecular identification methods, in particular high-throughput sequencing tools, have
greatly improved our knowledge about fungal diversity and biogeography, but many of the …

Novel soil-inhabiting clades fill gaps in the fungal tree of life

L Tedersoo, M Bahram, R Puusepp, RH Nilsson… - Microbiome, 2017 - Springer
Background Fungi are a diverse eukaryotic group of degraders, pathogens, and symbionts,
with many lineages known only from DNA sequences in soil, sediments, air, and water …