Fungal identification using molecular tools: a primer for the natural products research community

HA Raja, AN Miller, CJ Pearce… - Journal of natural …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Fungi are morphologically, ecologically, metabolically, and phylogenetically diverse. They
are known to produce numerous bioactive molecules, which makes them very useful for …

Forgotten fungi—the gut mycobiome in human health and disease

CE Huseyin, PW O'Toole, PD Cotter… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The human body is home to a complex and diverse microbial ecosystem that plays a central
role in host health. This includes a diversity of fungal species that is collectively referred to …

[HTML][HTML] Genera of phytopathogenic fungi: GOPHY 1

Y Marin-Felix, JZ Groenewald, L Cai, Q Chen… - Studies in mycology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Genera of Phytopathogenic Fungi (GOPHY) is introduced as a new series of
publications in order to provide a stable platform for the taxonomy of phytopathogenic fungi …

[HTML][HTML] Fungal Planet description sheets: 558–624

PW Crous, MJ Wingfield, TI Burgess… - … and Evolution of …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Novel species of fungi described in this study include those from various countries as
follows: Australia: Banksiophoma australiensis (incl. Banksiophoma gen. nov.) on Banksia …

How to know the fungi: combining field inventories and DNA-barcoding to document fungal diversity

C Truong, AB Mujic, R Healy, F Kuhar, G Furci… - New Phytologist, 2017 - JSTOR
The fungi kingdom is among the most diverse eukaryotic lineages on Earth with estimates of
several million extant species (O'Brien et al., 2005; Blackwell, 2011; Taylor et al., 2014) …

High-performance versatile setup for simultaneous Brillouin-Raman microspectroscopy

F Scarponi, S Mattana, S Corezzi, S Caponi, L Comez… - Physical Review X, 2017 - APS
Brillouin and Raman scattering spectroscopy are established techniques for the
nondestructive contactless and label-free readout of mechanical, chemical, and structural …

Phylogenetic species recognition and hybridisation in Lasiodiplodia: a case study on species from baobabs

EM Cruywagen, B Slippers, J Roux, MJ Wingfield - Fungal Biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Lasiodiplodia species (Botryosphaeriaceae, Ascomycota) infect a wide range of
typically woody plants on which they are associated with many different disease symptoms …

[HTML][HTML] DNA barcoding for identification of consumer-relevant mushrooms: A partial solution for product certification?

HA Raja, TR Baker, JG Little, NH Oberlies - Food Chemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
One challenge in the dietary supplement industry is confirmation of species identity for
processed raw materials, ie those modified by milling, drying, or extraction, which move …

Online databases for taxonomy and identification of pathogenic fungi and proposal for a cloud-based dynamic data network platform

PY Prakash, L Irinyi, C Halliday, S Chen… - Journal of Clinical …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
The increase in public online databases dedicated to fungal identification is noteworthy. This
can be attributed to improved access to molecular approaches to characterize fungi, as well …

Fungal ITS1 deep-sequencing strategies to reconstruct the composition of a 26-species community and evaluation of the gut mycobiota of healthy Japanese …

D Motooka, K Fujimoto, R Tanaka, T Yaguchi… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The study of mycobiota remains relatively unexplored due to the lack of sufficient available
reference strains and databases compared to those of bacterial microbiome studies. Deep …