A general consensus exists that IBD is associated with compositional and metabolic
changes in the intestinal microbiota (dysbiosis). However, a direct causal relationship …

Fungi are an essential component of any ecosystem and have diverse ecological roles,
ranging from endophytes to epiphytes and pathogens to saprobes. The current estimate of …

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, time-calibrated phylogenies from supermatrix studies have become crucial for
evolutionary and ecological studies in many groups of organisms. However, in frogs (anuran …

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 …

The field of mycology has grown from an underappreciated subset of botany, to a valuable,
modern scientific discipline. As this field of study has grown, there have been significant …

The gut microbiota is a dense and diverse ecosystem that is involved in many physiological
functions as well as in disease pathogenesis. It is dominated by bacteria, which have been …

Fungi are morphologically, ecologically, metabolically, and phylogenetically diverse. They
are known to produce numerous bioactive molecules, which makes them very useful for …

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

Taxonomic identification of biological materials can be achieved through DNA barcoding,
where an unknown “barcode” sequence is compared to a reference database. In many …