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 …

Utilizing ITS1 and ITS2 to study environmental fungal diversity using pyrosequencing

C Monard, S Gantner, J Stenlid - FEMS microbiology ecology, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The shorter reads generated by high-throughput sequencing has led to a focus on either the
ITS1 or the ITS2 sublocus in fungal diversity analyses. Our study aimed to determine how …

Sequence depth, not PCR replication, improves ecological inference from next generation DNA sequencing

DP Smith, KG Peay - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Recent advances in molecular approaches and DNA sequencing have greatly progressed
the field of ecology and allowed for the study of complex communities in unprecedented …

Polymerase matters: non-proofreading enzymes inflate fungal community richness estimates by up to 15%

AK Oliver, SP Brown, MA Callaham Jr, A Jumpponen - Fungal Ecology, 2015 - Elsevier
Rare taxa overwhelm metabarcoding data generated using next-generation sequencing
(NGS). Low frequency Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) may be artifacts generated by …

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 …

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 …

Different amplicon targets for sequencing-based studies of fungal diversity

F De Filippis, M Laiola, G Blaiotta… - Applied and …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Target-gene amplicon sequencing is the most exploited high-throughput sequencing
application in microbial ecology. The targets are taxonomically relevant genes, with 16S …

[PDF][PDF] Assessment of fungal diversity in the environment using metagenomics: a decade in review

S Cuadros-Orellana, LR Leite, A Smith… - Fungal Genomics & …, 2013 - researchgate.net
Fungi are ubiquitous inhabitants of soil and aquatic environments, and they establish and
maintain either parasitic or symbiotic relationships with animals and plants. They are major …

[PDF][PDF] Shotgun metagenomes and multiple primer pair-barcode combinations of amplicons reveal biases in metabarcoding analyses of fungi

L Tedersoo, S Anslan, M Bahram, S Põlme, T Riit… - …, 2015 - mycokeys.pensoft.net
Rapid development of high-throughput (HTS) molecular identification methods has
revolutionized our knowledge about taxonomic diversity and ecology of fungi. However …

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 …