The impact of the Fungus-Host-Microbiota interplay upon Candida albicans infections: current knowledge and new perspectives

C d'Enfert, AK Kaune, LR Alaban… - FEMS microbiology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Candida albicans is a major fungal pathogen of humans. It exists as a commensal in the oral
cavity, gut or genital tract of most individuals, constrained by the local microbiota, epithelial …

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 …

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 …

Structure and function of the global topsoil microbiome

M Bahram, F Hildebrand, SK Forslund, JL Anderson… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Soils harbour some of the most diverse microbiomes on Earth and are essential for both
nutrient cycling and carbon storage. To understand soil functioning, it is necessary to model …

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 …

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 …

Toward a fully resolved fungal tree of life

TY James, JE Stajich, CT Hittinger… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we discuss the current status and future challenges for fully elucidating the
fungal tree of life. In the last 15 years, advances in genomic technologies have …

FUNGuild: an open annotation tool for parsing fungal community datasets by ecological guild

NH Nguyen, Z Song, ST Bates, S Branco, L Tedersoo… - Fungal ecology, 2016 - Elsevier
Fungi typically live in highly diverse communities composed of multiple ecological guilds.
Although high-throughput sequencing has greatly increased the ability to quantify the …

The structure and function of the global citrus rhizosphere microbiome

J Xu, Y Zhang, P Zhang, P Trivedi, N Riera… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Citrus is a globally important, perennial fruit crop whose rhizosphere microbiome is thought
to play an important role in promoting citrus growth and health. Here, we report a …

Functional implications of microbial and viral gut metagenome changes in early stage L-DOPA-naïve Parkinson's disease patients

JR Bedarf, F Hildebrand, LP Coelho, S Sunagawa… - Genome medicine, 2017 - Springer
Background Parkinson's disease (PD) presently is conceptualized as a protein aggregation
disease in which pathology involves both the enteric and the central nervous system …