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 …

Formal description of sequence-based voucherless Fungi: promises and pitfalls, and how to resolve them

R Lücking, DL Hawksworth - IMA fungus, 2018 - Springer
There is urgent need for a formal nomenclature of sequence-based, voucherless Fungi,
given that environmental sequencing has accumulated more than one billion fungal ITS …

PHYMYCO-DB: a curated database for analyses of fungal diversity and evolution

S Mahé, M Duhamel, T Le Calvez, L Guillot, L Sarbu… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background In environmental sequencing studies, fungi can be identified based on nucleic
acid sequences, using either highly variable sequences as species barcodes or conserved …

Ten reasons why a sequence-based nomenclature is not useful for fungi anytime soon

M Thines, PW Crous, MC Aime, T Aoki, L Cai, KD Hyde… - IMA fungus, 2018 - Springer
The large number of species still to be discovered in fungi, together with an exponentially
growing number of environmental sequences that cannot be linked to known taxa, has …

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 …

The unbearable lightness of sequenced-based identification

V Hofstetter, B Buyck, G Eyssartier, S Schnee, K Gindro - Fungal Diversity, 2019 - Springer
Using the basic GenBank local alignment search tool program (BLAST) to identify fungi
collected in a recently protected beech forest at Montricher (Switzerland), the number of ITS …

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 …

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 …

The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi: handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications

RH Nilsson, KH Larsson, AFS Taylor… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract UNITE (https://unite. ut. ee/) is a web-based database and sequence management
environment for the molecular identification of fungi. It targets the formal fungal barcode—the …

MycoCosm portal: gearing up for 1000 fungal genomes

IV Grigoriev, R Nikitin, S Haridas, A Kuo… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
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 …