Mycobiome diversity: high-throughput sequencing and identification of fungi

RH Nilsson, S Anslan, M Bahram… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Fungi are major ecological players in both terrestrial and aquatic environments by cycling
organic matter and channelling nutrients across trophic levels. High-throughput sequencing …

The hidden world within plants: ecological and evolutionary considerations for defining functioning of microbial endophytes

PR Hardoim, LS Van Overbeek, G Berg… - Microbiology and …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
All plants are inhabited internally by diverse microbial communities comprising bacterial,
archaeal, fungal, and protistic taxa. These microorganisms showing endophytic lifestyles …

[HTML][HTML] Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding?

R Lücking, MC Aime, B Robbertse, AN Miller… - IMA fungus, 2020 - Springer
True fungi (Fungi) and fungus-like organisms (eg Mycetozoa, Oomycota) constitute the
second largest group of organisms based on global richness estimates, with around 3 …

PICRUSt2: An improved and extensible approach for metagenome inference

GM Douglas, VJ Maffei, J Zaneveld, SN Yurgel… - BioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
One major limitation of microbial community marker gene sequencing is that it does not
provide direct information on the functional composition of sampled communities. Here, we …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial interkingdom interactions in roots promote Arabidopsis survival

P Durán, T Thiergart, R Garrido-Oter, M Agler, E Kemen… - Cell, 2018 - Elsevier
Roots of healthy plants are inhabited by soil-derived bacteria, fungi, and oomycetes that
have evolved independently in distinct kingdoms of life. How these microorganisms interact …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Ecological memory of recurrent drought modifies soil processes via changes in soil microbial community

A Canarini, H Schmidt, L Fuchslueger, V Martin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Climate change is altering the frequency and severity of drought events. Recent evidence
indicates that drought may produce legacy effects on soil microbial communities. However, it …

[HTML][HTML] A meta-analysis of global fungal distribution reveals climate-driven patterns

T Větrovský, P Kohout, M Kopecký, A Machac… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The evolutionary and environmental factors that shape fungal biogeography are
incompletely understood. Here, we assemble a large dataset consisting of previously …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic and functional analyses of fungal and bacterial consortia that enable lignocellulose breakdown in goat gut microbiomes

X Peng, SE Wilken, TS Lankiewicz, SP Gilmore… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The herbivore digestive tract is home to a complex community of anaerobic microbes that
work together to break down lignocellulose. These microbiota are an untapped resource of …