Rethinking taxon sampling in the light of environmental sequencing

• Published in: Cladistics Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 197 - 203
• Main Authors: Henrik Nilsson, R, Ryberg, Martin, Sjökvist, Elisabet, Abarenkov, Kessy
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.2011
• Subjects: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; Bioinformatik och beräkningsbiologi; Biological Systematics; Biologisk systematik; Ecology; Ekologi; environmental sequencing; fungi; internal transcribed spacers; phylogenetic analysis; phylogeny; seawater; sequence analysis; soil; Taxon sampling; taxonomy; topology; wood

Environmental DNA sequencing efforts of substrates such as soil, wood, and seawater have been found to present very different views of the underlying biological communities compared with efforts based on morphological examination and culture studies. The taxonomic affiliation of many of these enviro...