Best practices in metabarcoding of fungi: from experimental design to results

L Tedersoo, M Bahram, L Zinger, RH Nilsson… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The development of high‐throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies has greatly improved
our capacity to identify fungi and unveil their ecological roles across a variety of ecosystems …

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 …

Scaling up discovery of hidden diversity in fungi: impacts of barcoding approaches

R Yahr, CL Schoch… - … Transactions of the …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The fungal kingdom is a hyperdiverse group of multicellular eukaryotes with profound
impacts on human society and ecosystem function. The challenge of documenting and …

GlobalFungi, a global database of fungal occurrences from high-throughput-sequencing metabarcoding studies

T Větrovský, D Morais, P Kohout, C Lepinay, C Algora… - Scientific Data, 2020 - nature.com
Fungi are key players in vital ecosystem services, spanning carbon cycling, decomposition,
symbiotic associations with cultivated and wild plants and pathogenicity. The high …

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 …

Daring to be differential: metabarcoding analysis of soil and plant-related microbial communities using amplicon sequence variants and operational taxonomical units

L Joos, S Beirinckx, A Haegeman, J Debode… - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Background Microorganisms are not only indispensable to ecosystem functioning, they are
also keystones for emerging technologies. In the last 15 years, the number of studies on …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Great differences in performance and outcome of high-throughput sequencing data analysis platforms for fungal metabarcoding

S Anslan, RH Nilsson, C Wurzbacher, P Baldrian… - MycoKeys, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Along with recent developments in high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies and
thus fast accumulation of HTS data, there has been a growing need and interest for …

[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 …

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 …