TY - JOUR
T1 - GlobalFungi, a global database of fungal occurrences from high-throughput-sequencing metabarcoding studies
AU - Větrovský, Tomáš
AU - Morais, Daniel
AU - Kohout, Petr
AU - Lepinay, Clémentine
AU - Algora, Camelia
AU - Awokunle Hollá, Sandra
AU - Bahnmann, Barbara Doreen
AU - Bílohnědá, Květa
AU - Brabcová, Vendula
AU - D’Alò, Federica
AU - Human, Zander Rainier
AU - Jomura, Mayuko
AU - Kolařík, Miroslav
AU - Kvasničková, Jana
AU - Lladó, Salvador
AU - López-Mondéjar, Rubén
AU - Martinović, Tijana
AU - Mašínová, Tereza
AU - Meszárošová, Lenka
AU - Michalčíková, Lenka
AU - Michalová, Tereza
AU - Mundra, Sunil
AU - Navrátilová, Diana
AU - Odriozola, Iñaki
AU - Piché-Choquette, Sarah
AU - Štursová, Martina
AU - Švec, Karel
AU - Tláskal, Vojtěch
AU - Urbanová, Michaela
AU - Vlk, Lukáš
AU - Voříšková, Jana
AU - Žifčáková, Lucia
AU - Baldrian, Petr
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge funding from the Czech Science Foundation Grant No 18–26191S. ELIXIR CZ research infrastructure project LM2015047 by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic is acknowledged for hosting the database. All corresponding authors of published studies that provided additional information on the samples included in the database are gratefully acknowledged.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, The Author(s).
PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - Fungi are key players in vital ecosystem services, spanning carbon cycling, decomposition, symbiotic associations with cultivated and wild plants and pathogenicity. The high importance of fungi in ecosystem processes contrasts with the incompleteness of our understanding of the patterns of fungal biogeography and the environmental factors that drive those patterns. To reduce this gap of knowledge, we collected and validated data published on the composition of soil fungal communities in terrestrial environments including soil and plant-associated habitats and made them publicly accessible through a user interface at https://globalfungi.com. The GlobalFungi database contains over 600 million observations of fungal sequences across > 17 000 samples with geographical locations and additional metadata contained in 178 original studies with millions of unique nucleotide sequences (sequence variants) of the fungal internal transcribed spacers (ITS) 1 and 2 representing fungal species and genera. The study represents the most comprehensive atlas of global fungal distribution, and it is framed in such a way that third-party data addition is possible.
AB - Fungi are key players in vital ecosystem services, spanning carbon cycling, decomposition, symbiotic associations with cultivated and wild plants and pathogenicity. The high importance of fungi in ecosystem processes contrasts with the incompleteness of our understanding of the patterns of fungal biogeography and the environmental factors that drive those patterns. To reduce this gap of knowledge, we collected and validated data published on the composition of soil fungal communities in terrestrial environments including soil and plant-associated habitats and made them publicly accessible through a user interface at https://globalfungi.com. The GlobalFungi database contains over 600 million observations of fungal sequences across > 17 000 samples with geographical locations and additional metadata contained in 178 original studies with millions of unique nucleotide sequences (sequence variants) of the fungal internal transcribed spacers (ITS) 1 and 2 representing fungal species and genera. The study represents the most comprehensive atlas of global fungal distribution, and it is framed in such a way that third-party data addition is possible.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41597-020-0567-7
DO - 10.1038/s41597-020-0567-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 32661237
AN - SCOPUS:85087981103
SN - 2052-4463
VL - 7
JO - Scientific data
JF - Scientific data
IS - 1
M1 - 228
ER -