2015
Solving the ecological puzzle of mycorrhizal associations using data from annotated collections and environmental samples – an example of saddle fungi
Hwang J, Zhao Q, Yang ZL, Wang Z, Townsend JP. Solving the ecological puzzle of mycorrhizal associations using data from annotated collections and environmental samples – an example of saddle fungi. Environmental Microbiology Reports 2015, 7: 658-667. PMID: 26033481, DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12303.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPotential plant hostsEnvironmental sequencesDiversity of ecologyEctomycorrhizal fungiEcological roleGenetic divergenceGeographic distributionUnculturable fungiPhylogenetic informativenessPlant hostsEcologyITS phylogenyITS sequencesRoot tipsEnvironmental samplesSpeciesMetagenomic investigationSequence alignmentHost typeHelvellaDiversityFungiDiversity of relationshipsSequenceSoil
2011
Tasting Soil Fungal Diversity with Earth Tongues: Phylogenetic Test of SATé Alignments for Environmental ITS Data
Wang Z, Nilsson RH, Lopez-Giraldez F, Zhuang WY, Dai YC, Johnston PR, Townsend JP. Tasting Soil Fungal Diversity with Earth Tongues: Phylogenetic Test of SATé Alignments for Environmental ITS Data. PLOS ONE 2011, 6: e19039. PMID: 21533038, PMCID: PMC3080880, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019039.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsFungal lineagesSoil fungal diversityNovel fungal lineagesTree estimationITS dataNuclear ribosomal ITS regionEnvironmental samplesRibosomal ITS regionFungal diversityPublic sequence databasesComplex communitiesDivergent taxaBasal classPhylogenetic testsNovel lineageITS phylogenyPhylogenetic analysisEctomycorrhizal isolatesITS sequencesITS regionEnvironmental samplingSequence databasesSATéFocal questionLineages