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PacBio high-throughput sequencing enables cheap and efficient massive-scale barcoding of fungal specimens and reveals intragenomic diversity in marker genes. Runnel et al.: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… #dna_thepowerhouse #fungi

Global analysis of endemicity, global change vulnerability and protection priorities out now in paginated form: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #fungi #GlobalWarming

The open article writing initiative was successful, with nearly 200 users visiting from outside. docs.google.com/document/d/13e… Just submitted the manuscript to New Phytologist, after 2 days of offline polishing/shortening.

PhD position on offer in University of Tartu: Microbial diversity and function in water and sediments globally (admission in September) #phdstudent #researchers

The open study on ectomycorrhizal partner specificity in a final stage. Revisions, blog and rebuttal letter: docs.google.com/document/d/13e… All followers welcome to an online presentation (3 Mar 15:00 CET): ut-ee.zoom.us/j/95128994910?… Meeting ID: 951 2899 4910 Passcode: 326010

Thoughts about the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Naming "environmental taxa" of fungi: do or don't? mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/102669/

Biodiversity and carbon co-crediting might help protecting natural communities and avoiding monospecific plantations: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

MDPI 100% APC vouchers (free publishing) - a scam, because editors find their ways of fully charging for publishing, for example not being the first author or resubmitting after reject/encourage resubmission. My solution: withdrawn accepted manuscript.

Bioinformatics pipelines for HTS reviewed and tested by Ali Hakimzadeh et al. - relvant for fungi and bacteria research. Available at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

Connecting the multiple dimensions of global soil fungal diversity: a comprehensive 6-dataset analysis of drivers of alpha, beta, gamma and phylogenetic diversity of fungi globally by Vladimir Mikryukov and co-workers. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

PhD/PostDoc positions available: 1. Niche differentiation in soil fungi 2. AI in quality filtering 3. Fungal traits: species and ASV level 4. mgmt-related temporal changes in microbiome 5. Fungal diversity in EU coastline gradient [email protected] #postdoc #mmc #PhDposition

Fully financed 4y position open on carbon accumulation in soil and dead wood under changing climate, with fungi in focus. Supervised by Dr. Kadri Runnel and Dr. Ivika Ostonen ut.ee/en/content/phd…

In-depth analysis of fungal specificity for plants and vice versa published in EMIR. Took 15 months under review and effort of 10 reviewers. Open access: …icro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #mycorrhiza #fungi #forest #biodiversity

PhD positions open in my team in Tartu: ut.ee/en/content/phd… 1. Databasing species-level fungal ecological/genomic traits 2. Fungal diversity in European coastlines 3. Niche differentiation in closely related fungal species 4. AI in fungal bioinformatics [email protected]

EUKARYOME: a new SSU-ITS-LSU reference database, well suited for analysis of SSU and LSU short-read amplicons of protists, animals and early-diverging fungi, and long-read amps of all eukaryotes! Curated by specialist researchers. eukaryome.org academic.oup.com/database/artic…

Taxon-specific DNA barcoding thresholds in Fungi: much needed, but does it work??? Simple comparison of species-level thresholds (as % in figure) for ITS2 reveals high incongruence and no correlation among teams. Reviewers, please do not insist on using these!

Global spatiotemporal view on fungal communities based on spores in the air by Abrego et al. nature.com/articles/s4158…

eDNA-classical mixed phylogenetic classification framework reveals novel families and orders in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi - Glomeromycota and Endogonomycetes. An example of using eDNA and long reads in typification. mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/125549/ #IMC12

EUKARYOME 1.9. - a new release available. Special release for long-reads targeting AM fungi (Glomeromycota + Mucoromycotina) and dark taxa (undescribed fungal lineages) with alphanumerical codes: eukaryome.org #IMC12 #AMF #fungi