High-coverage ITS primers for the DNA-based identification of ascomycetes and basidiomycetes in environmental samples.

The kingdom Fungi is estimated to include 1.5 million or more species, playing key roles as decomposers, mutualists, and parasites in every biome on the earth. To comprehensively understand the diversity and ecology of this huge kingdom, DNA barcoding targeting the internal transcribed spacer (ITS)...

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Main Authors: Hirokazu Toju, Akifumi S Tanabe, Satoshi Yamamoto, Hirotoshi Sato
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3395698?pdf=render