[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Connecting the multiple dimensions of global soil fungal diversity

V Mikryukov, O Dulya, A Zizka, M Bahram… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
How the multiple facets of soil fungal diversity vary worldwide remains virtually unknown,
hindering the management of this essential species-rich group. By sequencing high …

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 …

Pushing the frontiers of biodiversity research: Unveiling the global diversity, distribution, and conservation of fungi

T Niskanen, R Lücking, A Dahlberg… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Fungi comprise approximately 20% of all eukaryotic species and are connected to virtually
all life forms on Earth. Yet, their diversity remains contentious, their distribution elusive, and …

High-throughput sequencing view on the magnitude of global fungal diversity

P Baldrian, T Větrovský, C Lepinay, P Kohout - Fungal Diversity, 2022 - Springer
High-throughput DNA sequencing has dramatically transformed several areas of biodiversity
research including mycology. Despite limitations, high-throughput sequencing is nowadays …

Identifying the 'unidentified'fungi: a global-scale long-read third-generation sequencing approach

L Tedersoo, S Anslan, M Bahram, U Kõljalg… - Fungal Diversity, 2020 - Springer
Molecular identification methods, in particular high-throughput sequencing tools, have
greatly improved our knowledge about fungal diversity and biogeography, but many of the …

Meta‐analysis of deep‐sequenced fungal communities indicates limited taxon sharing between studies and the presence of biogeographic patterns

A Meiser, M Bálint, I Schmitt - New Phytologist, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
High‐throughput amplicon sequencing gives new insights into fungal community ecology.
Massively generated molecular data lead to the discovery of vast fungal diversity. However …

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 …

Back to the future: natural history and the way forward in modern fungal ecology

KG Peay - Fungal Ecology, 2014 - Elsevier
The growing power and increasing availability of molecular tools for identifying fungi in
environmental samples has revolutionized the way that fungal ecologists work. As a result …

Fungal identification biases in microbiome projects

L Tedersoo, B Lindahl - Environmental microbiology reports, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Fungi are the key players in ecosystems as well as in plant and human health. High‐
throughput molecular identification of fungi has greatly progressed our understanding about …