NCBI Taxonomy: a comprehensive update on curation, resources and tools

CL Schoch, S Ciufo, M Domrachev, CL Hotton… - Database, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Taxonomy includes
organism names and classifications for every sequence in the nucleotide and protein …

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 …

The UNITE database for molecular identification and taxonomic communication of fungi and other eukaryotes: sequences, taxa and classifications reconsidered

K Abarenkov, RH Nilsson, KH Larsson… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract UNITE (https://unite. ut. ee) is a web-based database and sequence management
environment for molecular identification of eukaryotes. It targets the nuclear ribosomal …

RESCRIPt: Reproducible sequence taxonomy reference database management

MS Robeson, DR O'Rourke, BD Kaehler… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Nucleotide sequence and taxonomy reference databases are critical resources for
widespread applications including marker-gene and metagenome sequencing for …

[HTML][HTML] Fusarium: more than a node or a foot-shaped basal cell

PW Crous, L Lombard, M Sandoval-Denis, KA Seifert… - Studies in mycology, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent publications have argued that there are potentially serious consequences for
researchers in recognising distinct genera in the terminal fusarioid clade of the family …

The numbers of fungi: Contributions from traditional taxonomic studies and challenges of metabarcoding

C Phukhamsakda, RH Nilsson, CS Bhunjun… - Fungal diversity, 2022 - Springer
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 …

Diagnosis of invasive fungal infections: challenges and recent developments

W Fang, J Wu, M Cheng, X Zhu, M Du, C Chen… - Journal of biomedical …, 2023 - Springer
Background The global burden of invasive fungal infections (IFIs) has shown an upsurge in
recent years due to the higher load of immunocompromised patients suffering from various …

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 …

Microplastics accumulate fungal pathogens in terrestrial ecosystems

G Gkoutselis, S Rohrbach, J Harjes, M Obst… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Microplastic (MP) is a pervasive pollutant in nature that is colonised by diverse groups of
microbes, including potentially pathogenic species. Fungi have been largely neglected in …

DNA barcoding, an effective tool for species identification: a review

S Antil, JS Abraham, S Sripoorna, S Maurya… - Molecular biology …, 2023 - Springer
DNA barcoding is a powerful taxonomic tool to identify and discover species. DNA
barcoding utilizes one or more standardized short DNA regions for taxon identification. With …