FungalTraits: a user-friendly traits database of fungi and fungus-like stramenopiles
FungalTraits: a user-friendly traits database of fungi and fungus-like stramenopiles
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DOI：
10.1007/s13225-020-00466-2
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发表时间：
2021-01-19
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20.3
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Tedersoo, Leho
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作者：
Polme, Sergei;Abarenkov, Kessy;Tedersoo, Leho
大多数真菌的隐蔽生活方式需要在环境研究中对其进行分子鉴定。在过去的几十年里，分子工具的快速发展和可负担性极大地提高了对所有生态系统和栖息地中真菌多样性的认识。然而，尽管分子方法的进展，有关真菌类群的功能特性的知识是模糊的，在生态学上有意义的方式解释环境研究仍然具有挑战性。为了促进环境研究的功能分配和生态解释，我们介绍了一个用户友好的性状和字符数据库FungalTraits在属和种的假设水平上运行。结合FUNGuild和Fun（Fun）等先前工作的信息以及专家知识的参与，我们分别重新注释了10，210和151个真菌属和Strapellila属。这导致了一个独立的电子表格数据集，涵盖了真菌和草莓属的17种生活方式相关性状，旨在用于环境研究的快速功能分配。为了将性状状态分配给真菌物种假设，科学界的专家手动分类并将可用的性状信息分配给697，413个真菌ITS序列。在这些序列的基础上，我们能够将性状和宿主信息总结为92，623种真菌物种假设，差异阈值为1%。
The cryptic lifestyle of most fungi necessitates molecular identification of the guild in environmental studies. Over the past decades, rapid development and affordability of molecular tools have tremendously improved insights of the fungal diversity in all ecosystems and habitats. Yet, in spite of the progress of molecular methods, knowledge about functional properties of the fungal taxa is vague and interpretation of environmental studies in an ecologically meaningful manner remains challenging. In order to facilitate functional assignments and ecological interpretation of environmental studies we introduce a user friendly traits and character database FungalTraits operating at genus and species hypothesis levels. Combining the information from previous efforts such as FUNGuild and Fun(Fun) together with involvement of expert knowledge, we reannotated 10,210 and 151 fungal and Stramenopila genera, respectively. This resulted in a stand-alone spreadsheet dataset covering 17 lifestyle related traits of fungal and Stramenopila genera, designed for rapid functional assignments of environmental studies. In order to assign the trait states to fungal species hypotheses, the scientific community of experts manually categorised and assigned available trait information to 697,413 fungal ITS sequences. On the basis of those sequences we were able to summarise trait and host information into 92,623 fungal species hypotheses at 1% dissimilarity threshold.