The continuous decline in Earth's biodiversity represents a major crisis and challenge for the
21st century, and there is international political agreement to slow down or halt this decline …

Novel high‐throughput sequencing methods outperform earlier approaches in terms of
resolution and magnitude. They enable identification and relative quantification of …

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 …

Rapid development of high-throughput (HTS) molecular identification methods has
revolutionized our knowledge about taxonomic diversity and ecology of fungi. However …

Amplicon based metabarcoding promises rapid and cost-efficient analyses of species
composition. However, it is disputed whether abundance estimates can be derived from …

Current metabarcoding studies aiming to characterize microbial communities generally rely
on the amplification and sequencing of relatively short DNA regions. For fungi, the internal …

Sooty moulds are a remarkable, but poorly understood group of fungi. They coat fruits and
leaves superficially with black mycelia, which reduces photosynthesis rates of host plants …

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 …

Here, we describe a new database, MaarjAM, that summarizes publicly available
Glomeromycota DNA sequence data and associated metadata. The goal of the database is …

The internally transcribed spacer (ITS) region between the small subunit ribosomal RNA
gene and large subunit ribosomal RNA gene is a widely used phylogenetic marker for fungi …