High‐throughput amplicon sequencing gives new insights into fungal community ecology.
Massively generated molecular data lead to the discovery of vast fungal diversity. However …

The fungi kingdom is among the most diverse eukaryotic lineages on Earth with estimates of
several million extant species (O'Brien et al., 2005; Blackwell, 2011; Taylor et al., 2014) …

Novel high‐throughput sequencing methods outperform earlier approaches in terms of
resolution and magnitude. They enable identification and relative quantification of …

Soil fungi play a major role in ecological and biogeochemical processes in forests. Little is
known, however, about the structure and richness of different fungal communities and the …

Incompleteness of reference sequence databases and unresolved taxonomic relationships
complicates taxonomic placement of fungal sequences. We developed Protax‐fungi, a …

Background High throughput sequencing has revolutionized microbial ecology. We now
have the ability to characterize both prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial communities more …

Next-generation amplicon sequencing is a powerful tool in ecological studies of fungi.
Technological development suggests that short fragment high-throughput techniques, eg …

The distance-decay pattern of similarity in ecological communities has been recognized by
ecologists for decades [1]. Such a pattern has been shown for diverse macroorganisms and …

Fungi are key players in vital ecosystem services, spanning carbon cycling, decomposition,
symbiotic associations with cultivated and wild plants and pathogenicity. The high …

Mycological research, especially research on fungal evolution and ecology, requires a
robust and detailed fungal classification and phylogeny to facilitate efficient and informative …