Novel soil-inhabiting clades fill gaps in the fungal tree of life

Abstract Background Fungi are a diverse eukaryotic group of degraders, pathogens, and symbionts, with many lineages known only from DNA sequences in soil, sediments, air, and water. Results We provide rough phylogenetic placement and principal niche analysis for >40 previously unrecognized fungal...

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Main Authors: Leho Tedersoo, Mohammad Bahram, Rasmus Puusepp, R. Henrik Nilsson, Timothy Y. James
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-04-01
Series:Microbiome
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-017-0259-5