fungi

Soil Science: belowground biodiversity and global soil fungi biodiversity

Papers in Science and Nature:

Tedersoo, L. et al, Global diversity and geography of soil fungi, Science 28 November 2014: Vol. 346 no. 6213 DOI: 10.1126/science.1256688

Bardgett, R D and van der Putten, W H Belowground biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, Nature, 515, 505–511(27 November 2014) doi:10.1038/nature13855

Biodiversity Science: barcode for Fungi published

A barcode for fungi has been published in PNAS - part of the activity of the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBoL). Schoch, C.L. et al. (2012) Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi PNAS 2012 109 (16) 6241-6246; published ahead of print March 27, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1117018109

Biodiversity science: Fungal disease impacts on biodiversity

Paper in Nature on increasing fungal disease impacts on biodiversity. Fisher, M. C. et al. (2012) Emerging fungal threats to animal, plant and ecosystem health. Nature 484 186-194. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature10947

Science, Biodiversity and Museums

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