Top 50 most wanted fungi
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 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
Författare
R. Henrik Nilsson
Göteborgs universitet
Christian Wurzbacher
Göteborgs universitet
Mohammad Bahram
Estonian Institute of Ecology
Göteborgs universitet
Victor R. M. Coimbra
Göteborgs universitet
Ellen Larsson
Göteborgs universitet
Leho Tedersoo
Estonian Institute of Ecology
Jonna S. Eriksson
Göteborgs universitet
Camila Ritter
Göteborgs universitet
Sten Svantesson
Göteborgs universitet
Marisol Sánchez-García
University of Tennessee
Martin Ryberg
Uppsala universitet
Erik Kristiansson
Göteborgs universitet
Chalmers, Matematiska vetenskaper, Tillämpad matematik och statistik
Kessy Abarenkov
Tartu Ülikool
MycoKeys
1314-4057 (ISSN) 1314-4049 (eISSN)
Vol. 12 29-40Ämneskategorier
Botanik
Biologisk systematik
Markvetenskap
Jordbruksvetenskap
Biologiska vetenskaper
Skogsvetenskap
Patobiologi
Mikrobiologi
Bioinformatik (beräkningsbiologi)
Bioinformatik och systembiologi
DOI
10.3897/mycokeys.12.7553