Fungi are ubiquitous in both natural and human-made environments. They play important
roles in the health of plants, animals, and humans, and in broad ecosystem functions. Thus …

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

Fungi typically live in highly diverse communities composed of multiple ecological guilds.
Although high-throughput sequencing has greatly increased the ability to quantify the …

DNA barcoding is a global initiative for species identification through sequencing of short
DNA sequence markers. Sequences of two loci, ITS and LSU, were generated as barcode …

The proliferation of DNA data is revolutionizing all fields of systematic research. DNA
barcode sequences, now available for millions of specimens and several hundred thousand …

Correct species identification is becoming increasingly important in clinical diagnostics. Till
now, many mycological laboratories rely on conventional phenotypic identification. But this …

Biology is increasingly dependent on large‐scale analysis, such as proteomics, creating a
requirement for efficient bioinformatics. Bioinformatic predictions of biological functions rely …

Accuracy of taxonomic identifications is crucial to data quality in online repositories of
species occurrence data, such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), which …

The species name is a shorthand identifier for a taxonomic entity and provides an important
information retrieval tool, even more so in this age of electronic on-line searching and large …

Mycological research, especially research on fungal evolution and ecology, requires a
robust and detailed fungal classification and phylogeny to facilitate efficient and informative …