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Top 50 most wanted fungi.

Authors :
Henrik Nilsson, R.
Wurzbacher, Christian
Bahram, Mohammad
Coimbra, Victor R. M.
Larsson, Ellen
Tedersoo, Leho
Eriksson, Jonna
Ritter, Camila Duarte
Svantesson, Sten
Sánchez-García, Marisol
Ryberg, Martin
Kristiansson, Erik
Abarenkov, Kessy
Source :
MycoKeys; 2016, Issue 12, p29-40, 12p
Publication Year :
2016

Abstract

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subjects

Subjects :
FUNGI
MICROORGANISMS
TAXONOMY

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
13144057
Issue :
12
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
MycoKeys
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
115307999
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.12.7553