Top 50 most wanted fungi
Journal article, 2016
Environmental sequencing regularly recovers fungi that cannot be classified to any meaningful taxonomic level beyond “Fungi”. There are several examples where evidence of such lineages has been sitting in public sequence databases for up to ten years before receiving scientific attention and formal recognition. In order to highlight these unidentified lineages for taxonomic scrutiny, a search function is presented that produces updated lists of approximately genus-level clusters of fungal ITS sequences that remain unidentified at the phylum, class, and order levels, respectively. The search function (https://unite.ut.ee/top50.php) is implemented in the UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi, such that the underlying sequences and fungal lineages are open to third-party annotation. We invite researchers to examine these enigmatic fungal lineages in the hope that their taxonomic resolution will not have to wait another ten years or more.
environmental sequencing
taxonomy feedback loop
taxonomic orphans
Fungi
metabarcoding
Author
R. Henrik Nilsson
University of Gothenburg
Christian Wurzbacher
University of Gothenburg
Mohammad Bahram
Estonian Institute of Ecology
University of Gothenburg
Victor R. M. Coimbra
University of Gothenburg
Ellen Larsson
University of Gothenburg
Leho Tedersoo
Estonian Institute of Ecology
Jonna S. Eriksson
University of Gothenburg
Camila Ritter
University of Gothenburg
Sten Svantesson
University of Gothenburg
Marisol Sánchez-García
University of Tennessee
Martin Ryberg
Uppsala University
Erik Kristiansson
University of Gothenburg
Chalmers, Mathematical Sciences, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Kessy Abarenkov
University of Tartu
MycoKeys
1314-4057 (ISSN) 1314-4049 (eISSN)
Vol. 12 29-40Subject Categories
Botany
Biological Systematics
Soil Science
Agricultural Science
Biological Sciences
Forest Science
Pathobiology
Microbiology
Bioinformatics (Computational Biology)
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
DOI
10.3897/mycokeys.12.7553