The question of how many species of Fungi there are has occasioned much speculation,
with figures mostly posited from around half a million to 10 million, and in one extreme case …

The aim of this study was to assess potential candidate gene regions and corresponding
universal primer pairs as secondary DNA barcodes for the fungal kingdom, additional to ITS …

Species concepts have long provided a source of debate among biologists. These lively
debates have been important for reaching consensus on how to communicate across …

The global diversity of fungi has been estimated using several different approaches. There is
somewhere between 2–11 million estimated species, but the number of formally described …

Metagenomics uses nucleic acid sequencing to characterize species diversity in different
niches such as environmental biomes or the human microbiome. Most studies have used …

DNA sequencing is faster and cheaper than ever before but quantity does not necessarily
mean quality. Towards a comprehensive understanding of the microbial biosphere, we need …

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 …

The kingdom of fungi provides model organisms for biotechnology, cell biology, genetics,
and life sciences in general. Only when their phylogenetic relationships are stably resolved …

Metagenomics research has recently thrived due to DNA sequencing technologies
improvement, driving the emergence of new analysis tools and the growth of taxonomic …

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 …