期刊
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY
卷 31, 期 10, 页码 2769-2795出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/mec.16460
关键词
biodiversity; bioinformatics; community ecology; experiment setup; molecular identification; statistical analyses
资金
- Horizon Europe EuropaBon project
- Estonian Science Foundation [PRG632]
The development of high-throughput sequencing technologies has improved our ability to identify fungi and understand their ecological roles. This article provides an overview of the best practices in metabarcoding analysis of fungal communities, covering experimental design, molecular and computational analyses. The study shows that operational taxonomic units are more effective in recovering fungal diversity compared to amplified sequence variants, especially for long markers. Additionally, analyzing the full-length ITS region allows for more accurate taxonomic placement of fungi and other eukaryotes. The authors conclude that metabarcoding analyses of fungi have great potential for integrating fungi into the broader context of microbiome and ecosystem functioning.
The development of high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies has greatly improved our capacity to identify fungi and unveil their ecological roles across a variety of ecosystems. Here we provide an overview of current best practices in metabarcoding analysis of fungal communities, from experimental design through molecular and computational analyses. By reanalysing published data sets, we demonstrate that operational taxonomic units (OTUs) outperform amplified sequence variants (ASVs) in recovering fungal diversity, a finding that is particularly evident for long markers. Additionally, analysis of the full-length ITS region allows more accurate taxonomic placement of fungi and other eukaryotes compared to the ITS2 subregion. Finally, we show that specific methods for compositional data analyses provide more reliable estimates of shifts in community structure. We conclude that metabarcoding analyses of fungi are especially promising for integrating fungi into the full microbiome and broader ecosystem functioning context, recovery of novel fungal lineages and ancient organisms as well as barcoding of old specimens including type material.
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