MycoCosm portal: gearing up for 1000 fungal genomes

IV Grigoriev, R Nikitin, S Haridas, A Kuo… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
MycoCosm is a fungal genomics portal (http://jgi. doe. gov/fungi), developed by the US
Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute to support integration, analysis and …

Quantifying microbial communities with 454 pyrosequencing: does read abundance count?

AS Amend, KA Seifert, TD Bruns - Molecular ecology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Pyrosequencing technologies have revolutionized how we describe and compare complex
microbial communities. In 454 pyrosequencing data sets, the abundance of reads pertaining …

Comparison of ITS1 and ITS2 rDNA in 454 sequencing of hyperdiverse fungal communities

AL Bazzicalupo, M Balint, I Schmitt - Fungal Ecology, 2013 - Elsevier
Next-generation amplicon sequencing is a powerful tool in ecological studies of fungi.
Technological development suggests that short fragment high-throughput techniques, eg …

Fungal species concepts in the genomics era

J Xu - Genome, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
The 140 000 or so fungal species reported so far are heterogeneously defined based on
varying criteria such as morphological, physiological, mating, and (or) molecular features …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular markers: An overview of data published for fungi over the last ten years

M Oliveira, L Azevedo - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
Fungi are amongst the most abundant and diverse organisms. Despite being widely known
for their adverse role in food spoilage or as pathogens for humans, animals, or plants, they …

Diversity and ecology of soil fungal communities: increased understanding through the application of molecular techniques

IC Anderson, JWG Cairney - Environmental microbiology, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Fungi fulfil a range of important ecological functions, yet current understanding of fungal
biodiversity in soil is limited. Direct DNA extraction from soil, coupled with polymerase chain …

High-throughput metagenomic technologies for complex microbial community analysis: open and closed formats

J Zhou, Z He, Y Yang, Y Deng, SG Tringe… - MBio, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Understanding the structure, functions, activities and dynamics of microbial communities in
natural environments is one of the grand challenges of 21st century science. To address this …

Mycobiome: approaches to analysis of intestinal fungi

J Tang, ID Iliev, J Brown, DM Underhill… - Journal of immunological …, 2015 - Elsevier
Massively parallel sequencing (MPSS) of bacterial 16S rDNA has been widely used to
characterize the microbial makeup of the human and mouse gastrointestinal tract. However …

Detection and diversity of fungi from environmental samples: traditional versus molecular approaches

R Jeewon, KD Hyde - Advanced techniques in soil microbiology, 2007 - Springer
R. Jeewon and KD Hyde 2 these fungi with plant roots and other biotic or abiotic factors
within the soil constitutes a challenge to soil microbiologists. Obviously there must have …

More bang for the buck? Can arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities be characterized adequately alongside other fungi using general fungal primers?

Y Lekberg, M Vasar, LS Bullington, SK Sepp… - New Phytologist, 2018 - JSTOR
Background High throughput sequencing has revolutionized microbial ecology. We now
have the ability to characterize both prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial communities more …