Authors
Urmas Kõljalg, R Henrik Nilsson, Kessy Abarenkov, Leho Tedersoo, Andy FS Taylor, Mohammad Bahram, Scott T Bates, Thomas D Bruns, Johan Bengtsson‐Palme, Tony M Callaghan, Brian Douglas, Tiia Drenkhan, Ursula Eberhardt, Margarita Dueñas, Tine Grebenc, Gareth W Griffith, Martin Hartmann, Paul M Kirk, Petr Kohout, Ellen Larsson, Björn D Lindahl, Robert Lücking, María P Martín, P Brandon Matheny, Nhu H Nguyen, Tuula Niskanen, Jane Oja, Kabir G Peay, Ursula Peintner, Marko Peterson, Kadri Põldmaa, Lauri Saag, Irja Saar, Arthur Schüßler, James A Scott, Carolina Senés, Matthew E Smith, Ave Suija, D Lee Taylor, M Teresa Telleria, Michael Weiss, Karl‐Henrik Larsson
Publication date
2013/11
Source
Molecular ecology
Volume
22
Issue
21
Pages
5271-5277
Description
The nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region is the formal fungal barcode and in most cases the marker of choice for the exploration of fungal diversity in environmental samples. Two problems are particularly acute in the pursuit of satisfactory taxonomic assignment of newly generated ITS sequences: (i) the lack of an inclusive, reliable public reference data set and (ii) the lack of means to refer to fungal species, for which no Latin name is available in a standardized stable way. Here, we report on progress in these regards through further development of the UNITE database (http://unite.ut.ee) for molecular identification of fungi. All fungal species represented by at least two ITS sequences in the international nucleotide sequence databases are now given a unique, stable name of the accession number type (e.g. Hymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus|GU586904|SH133781.05FU), and their taxonomic and …
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