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 …

[HTML][HTML] A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming

D Ning, M Yuan, L Wu, Y Zhang, X Guo, X Zhou… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Unraveling the drivers controlling community assembly is a central issue in ecology.
Although it is generally accepted that selection, dispersal, diversification and drift are major …

Topographical and physiological differences of the skin mycobiome in health and disease

JH Jo, EA Kennedy, HH Kong - Virulence, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Skin constantly encounters external elements, including microbes. Culture-based studies
have identified fungi present on human skin and have linked some species with certain skin …

[HTML][HTML] High-level classification of the Fungi and a tool for evolutionary ecological analyses

L Tedersoo, S Sánchez-Ramírez, U Koljalg, M Bahram… - Fungal diversity, 2018 - Springer
High-throughput sequencing studies generate vast amounts of taxonomic data. Evolutionary
ecological hypotheses of the recovered taxa and Species Hypotheses are difficult to test due …

Development of the human mycobiome over the first month of life and across body sites

TL Ward, MG Dominguez-Bello, T Heisel, G Al-Ghalith… - …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
With the advent of next-generation sequencing and microbial community characterization,
we are beginning to understand the key factors that shape early-life microbial colonization …

Geomicrobiology of the built environment

GM Gadd - Nature microbiology, 2017 - nature.com
Microbial colonization and growth can have significant impacts on the built environment,
resulting in a range of effects, from discolouration and staining to biodeterioration and …

Transmission of seed and soil microbiota to seedling

A Rochefort, M Simonin, C Marais… - Msystems, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
The seed microbial community constitutes an initial inoculum for plant microbiota assembly.
Still, the persistence of seed microbiota when seeds encounter soil during plant emergence …

Composition and associations of the infant gut fungal microbiota with environmental factors and childhood allergic outcomes

RCT Boutin, H Sbihi, RJ McLaughlin, AS Hahn… - MBio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Although often neglected in gut microbiota studies, recent evidence suggests that
imbalanced, or dysbiotic, gut mycobiota (fungal microbiota) communities in infancy …

Mega‐fire in redwood tanoak forest reduces bacterial and fungal richness and selects for pyrophilous taxa that are phylogenetically conserved

DJ Enright, KM Frangioso, K Isobe, DM Rizzo… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mega‐fires of unprecedented size, intensity and socio‐economic impacts have surged
globally due to climate change, fire suppression and development. Soil microbiomes are …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of sterilization and maturity of compost on soil bacterial and fungal communities and wheat growth

Y Luo, HPJ van Veelen, S Chen, V Sechi, A ter Heijne… - Geoderma, 2022 - Elsevier
Composts are commonly used as soil amendments to sustain and improve the functionality
of agricultural soil. Compost has abiotic (organic matter [OM], nutrients) and biotic …