The identification and proper naming of microfungi, in particular plant, animal and human
pathogens, remains challenging. Molecular identification is becoming the default approach …

The 140 000 or so fungal species reported so far are heterogeneously defined based on
varying criteria such as morphological, physiological, mating, and (or) molecular features …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Fungal taxonomy and ecology have been revolutionized by the application of molecular
methods and both have increasing connections to genomics and functional biology …

To ensure a stable platform for fungal taxonomy, it is of paramount importance that the
genetic application of generic names be based on their DNA sequence data, and wherever …

Species concepts have long provided a source of debate among biologists. These lively
debates have been important for reaching consensus on how to communicate across …

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 …