Where is the unseen fungal diversity hidden? A study of Mortierella reveals a large contribution of reference collections to the identification of fungal environmental sequences

• Published in: The New phytologist Vol. 191; no. 3; pp. 789 - 794
• Main Authors: Nagy, László G., Petkovits, Tamás, Kovács, Gábor M., Voigt, Kerstin, Vágvölgyi, Csaba, Papp, Tamás
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK John Wiley & Sons 01.08.2011; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Base Sequence; Biodiversity; Biological taxonomies; classification; clustering; Collections; Datasets; DNA, Fungal; DNA, Fungal - genetics; DNA, Ribosomal Spacer; DNA, Ribosomal Spacer - genetics; environmental sequence; Estimated taxes; fungal diversity; Fungi; Fungi - classification; Fungi - genetics; genetics; High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; Indexing in process; internal transcribed spacer (ITS); Molecular Sequence Data; Mortierella; Mortierella - classification; Mortierella - genetics; Mycology; next‐generation sequencing; Phylogeny; prediction; Questions; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Sequences; Sequencing; Soil fungi; Soil microorganisms; Species; Species Specificity; Taxa; Taxonomy; type collections; undescribed species

Estimation of the proportion of undescribed fungal taxa is an issue that has remained unresolved for many decades. Several very different estimates have been published, and the relative contributions of traditional taxonomic and next-generation sequencing (NGS) techniques to species discovery have a...