Towards PacBio‐based pan‐eukaryote metabarcoding using full‐length ITS sequences

L Tedersoo, S Anslan - Environmental microbiology reports, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Development of high‐throughput sequencing techniques has greatly benefited our
understanding about microbial ecology, yet the methods producing short reads suffer from …

[HTML][HTML] Leveraging single-cell genomics to expand the fungal tree of life

SR Ahrendt, CA Quandt, D Ciobanu, A Clum… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Environmental DNA surveys reveal that most fungal diversity represents uncultured species.
We sequenced the genomes of eight uncultured species across the fungal tree of life using a …

[HTML][HTML] Extensive intragenomic variation in the internal transcribed spacer region of fungi

MJ Bradshaw, MC Aime, A Rokas, A Maust, S Moparthi… - IScience, 2023 - cell.com
Fungi are among the most biodiverse organisms in the world. Accurate species identification
is imperative for studies on fungal ecology and evolution. The internal transcribed spacer …

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 …

[HTML][HTML]  How, not if, is the question mycologists should be asking about DNA-based typification

RH Nilsson, M Ryberg, C Wurzbacher, L Tedersoo… - MycoKeys, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 Abstract Fungal metabarcoding of substrates such as soil, wood, and water is uncovering
an unprecedented number of fungal species that do not seem to produce tangible …

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 …

PacBio metabarcoding of Fungi and other eukaryotes: errors, biases and perspectives

L Tedersoo, A Tooming‐Klunderud… - New Phytologist, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Second‐generation, high‐throughput sequencing methods have greatly improved our
understanding of the ecology of soil microorganisms, yet the short barcodes (< 500 bp) …

Sequencing our way towards understanding global eukaryotic biodiversity

HM Bik, DL Porazinska, S Creer, JG Caporaso… - Trends in ecology & …, 2012 - cell.com
Microscopic eukaryotes are abundant, diverse and fill critical ecological roles across every
ecosystem on Earth, yet there is a well-recognized gap in understanding of their global …

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 …

Illumina metabarcoding of a soil fungal community

PA Schmidt, M Bálint, B Greshake, C Bandow… - Soil Biology and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Next generation metabarcoding is becoming an indispensable tool in fungal community
ecology. Here we tested Illumina metabarcoding, a method that generates shorter reads but …