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 …

Current insights into fungal species diversity and perspective on naming the environmental DNA sequences of fungi

B Wu, M Hussain, W Zhang, M Stadler, X Liu, M Xiang - Mycology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The global bio-diversity of fungi has been extensively investigated and their species number
has been estimated. Notably, the development of molecular phylogeny has revealed an …

Fungal high‐throughput taxonomic identification tool for use with next‐generation sequencing (FHiTINGS)

KC Dannemiller, D Reeves, K Bibby… - Journal of Basic …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Improvements in DNA sequencing technology provide unprecedented opportunities to
explore fungal diversity, but also present challenges in data analysis due to the large …

Finding needles in haystacks: linking scientific names, reference specimens and molecular data for Fungi

CL Schoch, B Robbertse, V Robert, D Vu… - Database, 2014 - academic.oup.com
DNA phylogenetic comparisons have shown that morphology-based species recognition
often underestimates fungal diversity. Therefore, the need for accurate DNA sequence data …

Ghost-tree: creating hybrid-gene phylogenetic trees for diversity analyses

J Fouquier, JR Rideout, E Bolyen, J Chase, A Shiffer… - Microbiome, 2016 - Springer
Background Fungi play critical roles in many ecosystems, cause serious diseases in plants
and animals, and pose significant threats to human health and structural integrity problems …

Progress in molecular and morphological taxon discovery in Fungi and options for formal classification of environmental sequences

DS Hibbett, A Ohman, D Glotzer, M Nuhn, P Kirk… - Fungal biology …, 2011 - Elsevier
Fungal taxonomy seeks to discover, describe, and classify all species of Fungi and provide
tools for their identification. About 100,000 fungal species have been described so far, but it …

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 …

Top 50 most wanted fungi

RH Nilsson, C Wurzbacher, M Bahram, VRM Coimbra… - MycoKeys, 2016 - diva-portal.org
Environmental sequencing regularly recovers fungi that cannot be classified to any
meaningful taxonomic level beyond “Fungi”. There are several examples where evidence of …

Fungal identification biases in microbiome projects

L Tedersoo, B Lindahl - Environmental microbiology reports, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Fungi are the key players in ecosystems as well as in plant and human health. High‐
throughput molecular identification of fungi has greatly progressed our understanding about …

Improving ITS sequence data for identification of plant pathogenic fungi

RH Nilsson, KD Hyde, J Pawłowska, M Ryberg… - Fungal Diversity, 2014 - Springer
Plant pathogenic fungi are a large and diverse assemblage of eukaryotes with substantial
impacts on natural ecosystems and human endeavours. These taxa often have complex and …