Scaling up discovery of hidden diversity in fungi: Impacts of barcoding approaches

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1702, 2016, Pages

  Yahr, Rebecca ^a   Schoch, Conrad L ^b   Dentinger, Bryn T M ^c,d  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^d ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barcoding; Diversity; Fungi; Internal transcribed spacer; Metabarcoding; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA; FUNGUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; TAXONOMY; TYPE SPECIMEN;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BARCODING; FUNGUS; GENETICS;

BIODIVERSITY; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FUNGI;

EID: 84982839162     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0336     Document Type: Review

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