The fungi: 1, 2, 3 ... 5.1 million species?

By M. Blackwell. American-Eurasian journal of botany, 2011

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Subfields: Cell Biology, Epidemiology, Molecular Biology

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Introduction to Fungi (2012, background): “No one knows for sure how many species of fungi there are on our planet at this point in time, but what is known is that at least 99,000 species of fungi have been described, and new species are described at the rate of approximately 1200 per year (Blackwell 2011; Kirk et al. 2008).”
Branching out: Towards a trait-based understanding of fungal ecology (2015, background): “We consider this group as a good starting point in the development of a trait-oriented approach because they include the largest known diversity of the fungal kingdom, exhibit a wide variety of lifestyles, and have a cosmopolitan distribution (Blackwell, 2011).”
An evolutionary ecology perspective to address forest pathology challenges of today and tomorrow (2016, neutral): “include between one to fivemillion species among which only approximately 5% are identified (Blackwell 2011).”
High quality genome sequences of thirteen Hypoxylaceae (Ascomycota) strengthen the phylogenetic family backbone and enable the discovery of new taxa (2020, background): “Given the enormous diversity of fungi (up to 5.1 million estimated species; Blackwell 2011), often only a few or single members of the families are covered, restricting the use of the public repository to address interspecific relationships on taxonomic levels below ordinal rank.”
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).”
Towards a unified paradigm for sequence‐based identification of fungi (2013, background): “5–10 million extant fungal species (Bass & Richards 2011; Blackwell 2011).”
One Juliet and four Romeos: VeA and its methyltransferases (2015, background): “…involved in production of SM. Additionally, it has been conservatively estimated that there are at least five million fungal species, of which there are only about 100,000 described species (O’Brien et al., 2005; Blackwell, 2011), thus the majority of fungi and their bioactive SMs remain unstudied.”
Shotgun metagenomes and multiple primer pair-barcode combinations of amplicons reveal biases in metabarcoding analyses of fungi (2015, neutral): “…sequencing, internal transcribed spacer (ITS), nuclear large subunit (LSU), nuclear small subunit (SSU), Illumina MiSeq sequencing, shotgun metagenomics, primer bias, taxonomic coverage, identification bias introduction Fungi are one of the most diverse kingdoms of life on Earth (Blackwell 2011).”
Fungi-dominant heterotrophic nitrification in a subtropical forest soil of China (2015, background): “Compared with bacteria, fungi can degrade effectively these materials through the production of arbuscular mycorrhizae (Blackwell 2011).”
Fungicolous fungi: terminology, diversity, distribution, evolution, and species checklist (2019, background): “Fungi as symbionts are found associated with every major group of prokaryotes and eukaryotes: bacteria, algae, animals, insects, and plants (Blackwell 2011; Liu et al. 2010; Swe et al. 2008a, b, 2011; Wijayawardene et al. 2017a, b, 2018a, b).”
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…”
Global biogeography of marine fungi is shaped by the environment (2016, background): “Studies of wood-inhibiting marine fungi show that community composition is driven by water temperature and salinity (Booth and Kenkel, 1986), as well as log attachment (whether secured or free-floating) and location (R€am€a et al., 2014).”
Do soil‐borne fungal pathogens mediate plant diversity–productivity relationships? Evidence and future opportunities (2020, background): “First, the fungal kingdom is very diverse, estimated to include two to four million species (Blackwell, 2011; Hawksworth & Lücking, 2017).”
DNA sequence-based identification of Fusarium: Current status and future directions (2015, background): “Based on biodiversity studies that estimate the ~100,000 named and accepted fungi only comprise one-tenth (Hawksworth 2001) to one-fiftieth (Blackwell 2011) of the species in nature, coupled with the fact that most of the fusaria studied to date were isolated from agronomically important plants (i.”
Microfungi associated with Clematis (Ranunculaceae) with an integrated approach to delimiting species boundaries (2020, background): “Blackwell (2011) estimated the number of fungi to plants by more than 6 to 1.”