Naming the untouchable - environmental sequences and niche partitioning as taxonomical evidence in fungi.

ABSTRACT: Due to their submerged and cryptic lifestyle, the vast majority of fungal species are difficult to observe and describe morphologically, and many remain known to science only from sequences detected in environmental samples. The lack of practices to delimit and name most fungal species is a staggering limitation to communication and interpretation of ecology and evolution in kingdom Fungi. Here, we use environmental sequence data as taxonomical evidence and combine phylogenetic and ecological data to generate and test species hypotheses in the class Archaeorhizomycetes (Taphrinomycotina, Ascomycota). Based on environmental amplicon sequencing from a well-studied Swedish pine forest podzol soil, we generate 68 distinct species hypotheses of Archaeorhizomycetes, of which two correspond to th

SUBMITTER: Kalsoom Khan F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7607712 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature