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Urmas Kõljalg
Researcher at University of Tartu
Publications - 124
Citations - 25747
Urmas Kõljalg is an academic researcher from University of Tartu. The author has contributed to research in topics: Species richness & Biodiversity. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 111 publications receiving 20682 citations. Previous affiliations of Urmas Kõljalg include University of Helsinki & American Museum of Natural History.
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Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi
Conrad L. Schoch,Keith A. Seifert,Sabine M. Huhndorf,Vincent Robert,John L. Spouge,C. André Lévesque,Wen Chen,Elena Bolchacova,Kerstin Voigt,Pedro W. Crous,Andrew N. Miller,Michael J. Wingfield,M. Catherine Aime,Kwang Deuk An,Feng-Yan Bai,Robert W. Barreto,Dominik Begerow,Marie Josée Bergeron,Meredith Blackwell,Teun Boekhout,Teun Boekhout,Mesfin Bogale,Nattawut Boonyuen,Ana Rosa Burgaz,Bart Buyck,Lei Cai,Qing Cai,Gianluigi Cardinali,Priscila Chaverri,Brian J. Coppins,Ana Crespo,Paloma Cubas,Craig Cummings,Ulrike Damm,Z. Wilhelm de Beer,G. Sybren de Hoog,Ruth Del-Prado,Bryn T. M. Dentinger,Bryn T. M. Dentinger,Javier Diéguez-Uribeondo,Pradeep K. Divakar,Brian Douglas,Margarita Dueñas,Tuan A. Duong,Ursula Eberhardt,Joan E. Edwards,Mostafa S. Elshahed,Katerina Fliegerova,Manohar R. Furtado,Miguel A. García,Zai-Wei Ge,Gareth W. Griffith,K. Griffiths,Johannes Z. Groenewald,Marizeth Groenewald,Martin Grube,Marieka Gryzenhout,Liang-Dong Guo,Ferry Hagen,Sarah Hambleton,Richard C. Hamelin,Karen Hansen,Paul Harrold,Gregory Heller,Cesar S. Herrera,Kazuyuki Hirayama,Yuuri Hirooka,Hsiao Man Ho,Kerstin Hoffmann,Valérie Hofstetter,Filip Högnabba,Peter M. Hollingsworth,Seung-Beom Hong,Kentaro Hosaka,Jos Houbraken,Karen W. Hughes,Seppo Huhtinen,Kevin D. Hyde,Kevin D. Hyde,Timothy Y. James,Eric M. Johnson,Joan E. Johnson,Peter R. Johnston,E. B. Gareth Jones,Laura J. Kelly,Laura J. Kelly,Paul M. Kirk,Dániel G. Knapp,Urmas Kõljalg,Gábor M. Kovács,Cletus P. Kurtzman,Sara Landvik,Steven D. Leavitt,Audra S. Liggenstoffer,Kare Liimatainen,Lorenzo Lombard,J. Jennifer Luangsa-ard,H. Thorsten Lumbsch,Harinad Maganti,Sajeewa S. N. Maharachchikumbura,María P. Martín,Tom W. May,Alistair R. McTaggart,Andrew S. Methven,Wiel Meyer,Jean-Marc Moncalvo,Suchada Mongkolsamrit,László Nagy,R. Henrik Nilsson,Tuula Niskanen,Ildikó Nyilasi,Gen Okada,Izumi Okane,Ibai Olariaga,Jürgen Otte,Tamás Papp,Duckchul Park,Tamás Petkovits,Raquel Pino-Bodas,W. Quaedvlieg,Huzefa A. Raja,Dirk Redecker,Tara L. Rintoul,Constantino Ruibal,Jullie M. Sarmiento-Ramírez,Imke Schmitt,Imke Schmitt,Arthur Schüßler,Carol A. Shearer,Kozue Sotome,Franck O.P. Stefani,Soili Stenroos,B. Stielow,Herbert Stockinger,Satinee Suetrong,Sung-Oui Suh,Gi-Ho Sung,Motofumi Suzuki,Kazuaki Tanaka,Leho Tedersoo,M. Teresa Telleria,Eric D. Tretter,Wendy A. Untereiner,Hector Urbina,Csaba Vágvölgyi,Agathe Vialle,Thuy Duong Vu,Grit Walther,Qi Ming Wang,Yan Wang,Bevan S. Weir,Michael Weiß,Merlin M. White,Jianping Xu,Rebecca Yahr,Zhu L. Yang,Andrey Yurkov,Juan Carlos Zamora,Ning Zhang,Wen Ying Zhuang,David Schindel +160 more
TL;DR: Among the regions of the ribosomal cistron, the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region has the highest probability of successful identification for the broadest range of fungi, with the most clearly defined barcode gap between inter- and intraspecific variation.
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Towards a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of fungi
Urmas Kõljalg,Urmas Kõljalg,R. Henrik Nilsson,Kessy Abarenkov,Leho Tedersoo,Andy F. S. Taylor,Andy F. S. Taylor,Mohammad Bahram,Scott T. Bates,Thomas D. Bruns,Johan Bengtsson-Palme,Tony M. Callaghan,Brian Douglas,Tiia Drenkhan,Ursula Eberhardt,Margarita Dueñas,Tine Grebenc,Gareth W. Griffith,Martin Hartmann,Paul M. Kirk,Petr Kohout,Petr Kohout,Ellen Larsson,Björn D. Lindahl,Robert Lücking,María P. Martín,P. Brandon Matheny,Nhu H. Nguyen,Tuula Niskanen,Jane Oja,Kabir G. Peay,Ursula Peintner,Marko Peterson,Kadri Põldmaa,Lauri Saag,Irja Saar,Arthur Schüßler,James A. Scott,Carolina Senés,Matthew E. Smith,Ave Suija,Ave Suija,D. Lee Taylor,M. Teresa Telleria,Michael Weiss,Karl-Henrik Larsson +45 more
TL;DR: All fungal species represented by at least two ITS sequences in the international nucleotide sequence databases are now given a unique, stable name of the accession number type, and the term ‘species hypothesis’ (SH) is introduced for the taxa discovered in clustering on different similarity thresholds.
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Global diversity and geography of soil fungi
Leho Tedersoo,Mohammad Bahram,Sergei Põlme,Urmas Kõljalg,Nourou S. Yorou,Ravi L. C. Wijesundera,Luis Villarreal Ruiz,Aída M. Vasco-Palacios,Pham Q uang Thu,Ave Suija,Matthew E. Smith,Cathy Sharp,Erki Saluveer,Alessandro Saitta,Miguel Rosas,Taavi Riit,David A. Ratkowsky,Karin Pritsch,Kadri Põldmaa,Meike Piepenbring,Cherdchai Phosri,Marko Peterson,Kaarin Parts,Kadri Pärtel,Eveli Otsing,Eduardo Nouhra,André Ledoux Njouonkou,R. Henrik Nilsson,Luis N. Morgado,Jordan R. Mayor,Tom W. May,Luiza Majuakim,D. Jean Lodge,Su S ee Lee,Karl-Henrik Larsson,Petr Kohout,Kentaro Hosaka,Indrek Hiiesalu,Terry W. Henkel,Helery Harend,Liang-Dong Guo,Alina Greslebin,Gwen Grelet,József Geml,Genevieve Gates,W. Dunstan,Chris W. Dunk,Rein Drenkhan,John Dearnaley,André De Kesel,Tan Dang,Xin Chen,Franz Buegger,Francis Q. Brearley,Gregory Bonito,Sten Anslan,Sandra E. Abell,Kessy Abarenkov +57 more
TL;DR: Diversity of most fungal groups peaked in tropical ecosystems, but ectomycorrhizal fungi and several fungal classes were most diverse in temperate or boreal ecosystems, and manyfungal groups exhibited distinct preferences for specific edaphic conditions (such as pH, calcium, or phosphorus).
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A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi
David S. Hibbett,Manfred Binder,Joseph F. Bischoff,Meredith Blackwell,Paul F. Cannon,Ove E. Eriksson,Sabine M. Huhndorf,Timothy Y. James,Paul M. Kirk,Robert Lücking,H. Thorsten Lumbsch,François Lutzoni,P. Brandon Matheny,David J. McLaughlin,Martha J. Powell,Scott A. Redhead,Conrad L. Schoch,Joseph W. Spatafora,Joost A. Stalpers,Rytas Vilgalys,M. Catherine Aime,André Aptroot,Robert Bauer,Dominik Begerow,Gerald L. Benny,Lisa A. Castlebury,Pedro W. Crous,Yu-Cheng Dai,Walter Gams,David M. Geiser,Gareth W. Griffith,Cécile Gueidan,David L. Hawksworth,Geir Hestmark,Kentaro Hosaka,Richard A. Humber,Kevin D. Hyde,Joseph E. Ironside,Urmas Kõljalg,Cletus P. Kurtzman,Karl-Henrik Larsson,Robert W. Lichtwardt,Joyce E. Longcore,Jolanta Miadlikowska,Andrew N. Miller,Jean-Marc Moncalvo,Sharon E. Mozley-Standridge,Franz Oberwinkler,Erast Parmasto,Valérie Reeb,Jack D. Rogers,Claude Roux,Leif Ryvarden,José Paulo Sampaio,Arthur Schüssler,Junta Sugiyama,R. Greg Thorn,Leif Tibell,Wendy A. Untereiner,Christopher Walker,Zheng Wang,Alex Weir,Michael Weiss,Merlin M. White,Katarina Winka,Yi-Jian Yao,Ning Zhang +66 more
TL;DR: A comprehensive phylogenetic classification of the kingdom Fungi is proposed, with reference to recent molecular phylogenetic analyses, and with input from diverse members of the fungal taxonomic community.
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The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi: handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications.
Rolf Henrik Nilsson,Karl-Henrik Larsson,Andy F. S. Taylor,Johan Bengtsson-Palme,Johan Bengtsson-Palme,Thomas Stjernegaard Jeppesen,Dmitry Schigel,Peter G. Kennedy,Kathryn T. Picard,Frank Oliver Glöckner,Leho Tedersoo,Irja Saar,Urmas Kõljalg,Kessy Abarenkov +13 more
TL;DR: UNITE is a web-based database and sequence management environment for the molecular identification of fungi that targets the formal fungal barcode—the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer region—and offers all public fungal ITS sequences for reference.