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 …

The ecologist's field guide to sequence‐based identification of biodiversity

S Creer, K Deiner, S Frey, D Porazinska… - Methods in ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The past 100 years of ecological research has seen substantial progress in understanding
the natural world and likely effects of change, whether natural or anthropogenic. Traditional …

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 …

Large-scale generation and analysis of filamentous fungal DNA barcodes boosts coverage for kingdom fungi and reveals thresholds for fungal species and higher …

D Vu, M Groenewald, M De Vries… - Studies in …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Species identification lies at the heart of biodiversity studies that has in recent years
favoured DNA-based approaches. Microbial Biological Resource Centres are a rich source …

FUNGuild: an open annotation tool for parsing fungal community datasets by ecological guild

NH Nguyen, Z Song, ST Bates, S Branco, L Tedersoo… - Fungal ecology, 2016 - Elsevier
Fungi typically live in highly diverse communities composed of multiple ecological guilds.
Although high-throughput sequencing has greatly increased the ability to quantify the …

Network analysis reveals functional redundancy and keystone taxa amongst bacterial and fungal communities during organic matter decomposition in an arable soil

S Banerjee, CA Kirkby, D Schmutter, A Bissett… - Soil Biology and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Organic matter (OM) decomposition and breakdown of crop residues are directly linked to
carbon (C) sequestration in agricultural soils as a portion of the decomposed C becomes …

The Faces of Fungi database: fungal names linked with morphology, phylogeny and human impacts

SC Jayasiri, KD Hyde, HA Ariyawansa, J Bhat, B Buyck… - Fungal diversity, 2015 - Springer
Taxonomic names are key links between various databases that store information on
different organisms. Several global fungal nomenclural and taxonomic databases (notably …

Assessment of BOLD and GenBank–Their accuracy and reliability for the identification of biological materials

KA Meiklejohn, N Damaso, JM Robertson - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Taxonomic identification of biological materials can be achieved through DNA barcoding,
where an unknown “barcode” sequence is compared to a reference database. In many …

Improved software detection and extraction of ITS1 and ITS 2 from ribosomal ITS sequences of fungi and other eukaryotes for analysis of environmental sequencing …

J Bengtsson‐Palme, M Ryberg… - Methods in ecology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region is the primary choice for
molecular identification of fungi. Its two highly variable spacers (ITS 1 and ITS 2) are usually …

Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi

CL Schoch, KA Seifert, S Huhndorf… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Six DNA regions were evaluated as potential DNA barcodes for Fungi, the second largest
kingdom of eukaryotic life, by a multinational, multilaboratory consortium. The region of the …