Diversity measures in environmental sequences are highly dependent on alignment quality--data from ITS and new LSU primers targeting basidiomycetes.

The ribosomal DNA comprised of the ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 regions is widely used as a fungal marker in molecular ecology and systematics but cannot be aligned with confidence across genetically distant taxa. In order to study the diversity of Agaricomycotina in forest soils, we designed primers targeting th...

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Main Authors: Dirk Krüger, Danuta Kapturska, Christiane Fischer, Rolf Daniel, Tesfaye Wubet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22363808/?tool=EBI