Erik Kristiansson

TL;DR: ITSx is introduced, a Perl‐based software tool to extract ITS1, 5.8S and ITS2 – as well as full‐length ITS sequences – from both Sanger and high‐throughput sequencing data sets, and is rich in features and written to be easily incorporated into automated sequence analysis pipelines.

TL;DR: The present study estimates the intraspecific ITS variability in all fungi presently available to the mycological community through the international sequence databases and cautions against simplified approaches to automated ITS-based species delimitation and reiterate the need for taxonomic expertise in the translation of sequence data into species names.

TL;DR: This work attempts to define the ecological and evolutionary environmental factors that contribute to resistance development and transmission and investigates under what conditions and to what extent environmental selection for resistance takes place.

TL;DR: The present study uses a large set of fungal DNA sequences from the inclusive International Nucleotide Sequence Database to show that the taxon sampling of fungi is far from complete, that about 20% of the entries may be incorrectly identified to species level, and that the majority of entries lack descriptive and up-to-date annotations.

TL;DR: Genetic co-occurrences suggest that plasmids provide limited opportunities for biocides and metals to promote horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance through co-selection, whereas ample possibilities exist for indirect selection via chromosomal BMRGs.