Taxonomic Reliability of DNA Sequences in Public Sequence Databases: A Fungal Perspective

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Authors

R. Henrik Nilsson · University of Gothenburg

Martin Ryberg · University of Gothenburg

Erik Kristiansson · Chalmers University of Technology

Kessy Abarenkov · University of Tartu

Karl‐Henrik Larsson · University of Gothenburg

Urmas Kõljalg · University of Tartu

Abstract

The problems with taxonomic reliability and insufficient annotations in public DNA repositories form a tangible obstacle to sequence-based species identification, and it is manifest that the greatest challenges to biological barcoding will be of taxonomical, rather than technical, nature.

Topics & Keywords

Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Life in Land

Publication Details

Published in: PLoS ONE

Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. e59-e59

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000059

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