A first comprehensive census of fungi in soil reveals both hyperdiversity and fine-scale niche partitioning

By D. Taylor, Teresa N. Hollingsworth, Jack W. McFarland, Niall J. Lennon, Chad Nusbaum, R. Ruess. 2014

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Subfields: Cell Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science

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Tales from the crypt: genome mining from fungarium specimens improves resolution of the mushroom tree of life (2016, background): “Fungi may well outnumber vascular plants by as much as 17-fold (Taylor et al., 2014), yet only approximately 100 000 species have been formally documented and described (Blackwell, 2011).”
Plant diversity represents the prevalent determinant of soil fungal community structure across temperate grasslands in northern China (2017, background): “, 2014) and various forest ecosystems including temperate forests, tropical forests and boreal forests (Wubet et al., 2012; Peay et al., 2013; Taylor et al., 2014).”
Global diversity and geography of soil fungi (2014, methodology): “This is consistent with (19), reporting 48% of OTUs amplified from Alaskan soils with >97% similarity to any database sequences.”
FUNGuild: An open annotation tool for parsing fungal community datasets by ecological guild (2016, background): “Given that to date only about 130,000 species of the estimated 6 million species of fungi have been named (www.speciesfungorum. org, Blackwell, 2011; Taylor et al., 2014; but see Tedersoo et al., 2014), improving the efficiency and speed of taxonomic species descriptions will be key to making more c”
Inordinate Fondness Multiplied and Redistributed: the Number of Species on Earth and the New Pie of Life (2017, background): “Soil Fungi updated estimate from fungus:plant ratios Building on the fungal to plant ratio (F∶P) approach, Taylor et al. (2014) used direct molecular techniques to comprehensively census soil fungi in a boreal forest ecosystemwith well-known plant diversity.”
Top 50 most wanted fungi (2016, neutral): “Recent studies suggest that there may be more than 6 million extant species of fungi (Taylor et al. 2014), a number that contrasts sharply with the ca. 100,000 formally described species (Hibbett et al. 2011).”
Methods for the extraction, storage, amplification and sequencing of DNA from environmental samples (2018, background): “Extrapolations of fungus-to-plant ratios in a boreal forest in Alaska (Taylor et al. 2014) suggest up to six million species of fungi exist globally, of which 98% are undescribed, although recent work on a global scale (Tedersoo et al.”
Shotgun metagenomes and multiple primer pair-barcode combinations of amplicons reveal biases in metabarcoding analyses of fungi (2015, neutral): “The use of these primers could form a strong basis for phylogenetic placement of isolates recovered from complex samples (Taylor et al. 2014).”