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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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High phylogenetic diversity among corticioid homobasidiomycetes
TL;DR: It is concluded that corticioid fungi hold a considerable share of the phylogenetic diversity displayed by homobasidiomycetes, and should always be considered when phylogenetic studies of larger basidiomyCetes are designed.
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FungalTraits: a user-friendly traits database of fungi and fungus-like stramenopiles
Sergei Põlme,Sergei Põlme,Kessy Abarenkov,R. Henrik Nilsson,Björn D. Lindahl,Karina E. Clemmensen,Håvard Kauserud,Nhu H. Nguyen,Rasmus Kjøller,Scott T. Bates,Petr Baldrian,Tobias Guldberg Frøslev,Kristjan Adojaan,Alfredo Vizzini,Ave Suija,Donald H. Pfister,Hans Otto Baral,Helle Järv,Hugo Madrid,Hugo Madrid,Jenni Nordén,Jian-Kui Liu,Julia Pawłowska,Kadri Põldmaa,Kadri Pärtel,Kadri Runnel,Karen Hansen,Karl-Henrik Larsson,Kevin D. Hyde,Marcelo Sandoval-Denis,Matthew E. Smith,Merje Toome-Heller,Nalin N. Wijayawardene,Nelson Menolli,Nicole K. Reynolds,Rein Drenkhan,Sajeewa S. N. Maharachchikumbura,Tatiana Baptista Gibertoni,Thomas Læssøe,William J. Davis,Yuri Tokarev,Adriana Corrales,Adriene Mayra Soares,Ahto Agan,A. R. Machado,Andrés Argüelles-Moyao,Andrew P. Detheridge,Angelina de Meiras-Ottoni,Annemieke Verbeken,Arun Kumar Dutta,Bao-Kai Cui,C. K. Pradeep,César Marín,Daniel E. Stanton,Daniyal Gohar,Dhanushka N. Wanasinghe,Eveli Otsing,Farzad Aslani,Gareth W. Griffith,Thorsten Lumbsch,Hans-Peter Grossart,Hans-Peter Grossart,Hossein Masigol,Ina Timling,Inga Hiiesalu,Jane Oja,John Y. Kupagme,József Geml,Julieta Alvarez-Manjarrez,Kai Ilves,Kaire Loit,Kalev Adamson,Kazuhide Nara,Kati Küngas,Keilor Rojas-Jimenez,Krišs Bitenieks,Laszlo Irinyi,Laszlo Irinyi,Laszlo Nagy,Liina Soonvald,Li-Wei Zhou,Lysett Wagner,M. Catherine Aime,Maarja Öpik,María Isabel Mujica,Martin Metsoja,Martin Ryberg,Martti Vasar,Masao Murata,Matthew P. Nelsen,Michelle Cleary,Milan C. Samarakoon,Mingkwan Doilom,Mohammad Bahram,Mohammad Bahram,Niloufar Hagh-Doust,Olesya Dulya,Peter R. Johnston,Petr Kohout,Qian Chen,Qing Tian,Rajasree Nandi,Rasekh Amiri,Rekhani H. Perera,Renata dos Santos Chikowski,Renato Lucio Mendes-Alvarenga,Roberto Garibay-Orijel,Robin Gielen,Rungtiwa Phookamsak,Ruvishika S. Jayawardena,Saleh Rahimlou,Samantha C. Karunarathna,Saowaluck Tibpromma,Shawn P. Brown,Siim-Kaarel Sepp,Sunil Mundra,Sunil Mundra,Zhu Hua Luo,Tanay Bose,Tanel Vahter,Tarquin Netherway,Teng Yang,Tom W. May,Torda Varga,Wei Li,Victor R. M. Coimbra,Virton Rodrigo Targino de Oliveira,Vitor Xavier de Lima,Vladimir S. Mikryukov,Yong-Zhong Lu,Yosuke Matsuda,Yumiko Miyamoto,Urmas Kõljalg,Urmas Kõljalg,Leho Tedersoo,Leho Tedersoo +135 more
TL;DR: Fungal traits and character database FungalTraits operating at genus and species hypothesis levels is presented in this article, which includes 17 lifestyle related traits of fungal and Stramenopila genera.
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Preserving accuracy in GenBank
Thomas D. Bruns,Meredith Blackwell,Ivan P. Edwards,Andy F. S. Taylor,Thomas R. Horton,Ning Zhang,Urmas Kõljalg,Georgiana May,Thomas W. Kuyper,James D. Bever,Gregory S. Gilbert,John W. Taylor,Todd Z. DeSantis,Anne Pringle,James Borneman,Greg Thorn,Mary L. Berbee,Gregory M. Mueller,Gary L. Andersen,Else C. Vellinga,Sara Branco,Ian C. Anderson,Ian A. Dickie,Peter G. Avis,Sari Timonen,Rasmus Kjøller,D. J. Lodge,Richard M. Bateman,Andy Purvis,Pedro W. Crous,Christine V. Hawkes,Timothy G. Barraclough,Austin Burt,Ralf Nilsson,Karl-Henrik Larsson,Ian J. Alexander,Jean-Marc Moncalvo,Jean A. Bérubé,Joseph W. Spatafora,H. Thorsten Lumbsch,Jaime E. Blair,Sung-Oui Suh,Donald H. Pfister,Manfred Binder,Eric W.A. Boehm,Linda M. Kohn,Juan L. Mata,Paul S. Dyer,Gi-Ho Sung,Bryn T. M. Dentinger,Emory G. Simmons,Richard E. Baird,Thomas J. Volk,Brian A. Perry,Richard W. Kerrigan,Jinx Campbell,Jeewon Rajesh,Don R. Reynolds,David M. Geiser,Richard A. Humber,Natasha Hausmann,Timothy M. Szaro,Jason E. Stajich,Allen C. Gathman,Kabir G. Peay,Terry W. Henkel,Clare H. Robinson,Patricia J. Pukkila,Nhu H. Nguyen,Christopher F. Villalta,Peter G. Kennedy,Sarah E. Bergemann,M. Catherine Aime,Frank Kauff,Andrea Porras-Alfaro,Cécile Gueidan,Andreas Beck,Birgitte Andersen,Stephen M. Marek,Jo Anne Crouch,Julia Kerrigan,Jean B. Ristaino,Kathie T. Hodge,Gretchen A. Kuldau,Gary J. Samuels,Huzefa A. Raja,Hermann Voglmayr,Monique Gardes,David P. Janos,Jack D. Rogers,Paul F. Cannon,Sandra W. Woolfolk,H. C. Kistler,Michael A. Castellano,Sandra L. Maldonado-Ramírez,Paul M. Kirk,J. J. Farrar,Todd W. Osmundson,Randolph S. Currah,Vladimir Vujanovic,Weidong Chen,Richard P. Korf,Zahi K. Atallah,Ken J. Harrison,Josep Guarro,Scott T. Bates,Pierluigi Bonello,Paul D. Bridge,Wiley A. Schell,Walter Rossi,Jan Stenlid,Jens Christian Frisvad,R. M. Miller,Scott E. Baker,Heather E. Hallen,Jeffrey E. Janso,Andrew W. Wilson,Kenneth E. Conway,Louise M. Egerton-Warburton,Zheng Wang,Darin M. Eastburn,Wellcome W. Hong Ho,Scott Kroken,Marc Stadler,Gillian Turgeon,Robert W. Lichtwardt,Elwin L. Stewart,Mats Wedin,De Wei Li,Janice Y. Uchida,Ari Jumpponen,Ron J. Deckert,Henry J. Beker,Scott O. Rogers,Jianping Xu,Peter R. Johnston,R. A. Shoemaker,Miao Liu,Guilhermina Marques,Brett A. Summerell,Serge Sokolski,Ulf Thrane,Paul Widden,Johann N. Bruhn,Virginia Bianchinotti,Dorothy E. Tuthill,Timothy J. Baroni,G. L. Barron,Kentaro Hosaka,Kelsea Jewell,Meike Piepenbring,Raymond F. Sullivan,Gareth W. Griffith,Stuart Bradley,Takayuki Aoki,Wendy Yoder,Yu-Ming Ju,Shannon M. Berch,Matt Trappe,Weijun Duan,Gregory Bonito,Ruth A. Taber,Gilberto Coelho,Gerald F. Bills,Austen R. D. Ganley,Reinhard Agerer,Laszlo Nagy,B. A. Roy,Thomas Læssøe,Nils Hallenberg,Hans Volker Tichy,Joost A. Stalpers,Ewald Langer,Markus Scholler,Dirk Krueger,Giovanni Pacioni,Reinhold Pöder,Taina Pennanen,Marina Capelari,Karen K. Nakasone,J. P. Tewari,Andrew N. Miller,Cony Decock,Sabine M. Huhndorf,Mark Wach,Helen S. Vishniac,David Yohalem,Matthew E. Smith,Anthony E. Glenn,Martin J. Spiering,Daniel L. Lindner,Conrad L. Schoch,Scott A. Redhead,Kelly Ivors,Steven N. Jeffers,József Geml,Florence Okafor,Frederick W. Spiegel,Damon Dewsbury,J. E. Carroll,Terri M. Porter,Catherine H. Pashley,Steven E. Carpenter,Gloria Abad,Kerstin Voigt,Brett E. Arenz,Andrew S. Methven,Shannon Schechter,Paula Vance,Dan Mahoney,Seogchan Kang,John P. Rheeder,James William Montague Mehl,Matthew Greif,George Ndzi Ngala,Joseph F. Ammirati,Masako Kawasaki,Yuan Gwo-Fang,Tadahiko Matsumoto,David Smith,Gina L. Koenig,Daniel L. Luoma,Tom W. May,Marco Leonardi,Lynne Sigler,D. L. Taylor,Cara M. Gibson,Thomas J. Sharpton,David L. Hawksworth,José Carmine Dianese,Steven A. Trudell,Barbara Paulus,Mahajabeen Padamsee,Philippe Callac,Nelson Lima,Merlin M. White,C. Barreau,M. A. Juncai,Bart Buyck,Richard K. Rabeler,Mark R. Liles,Dwayne Estes,Richard Carter,J. M. Herr,Gregory T. Chandler,Jennifer Kerekes,Jennifer Cruse-Sanders,R. Galan Marquez,Egon Horak,Michael S. Fitzsimons,Heidi Döring,Su Yao,Nicole A. Hynson,Martin Ryberg,A. E. Arnold,Karen W. Hughes +255 more
TL;DR: GenBank, the public repository for nucleotide and protein sequences, is a critical resource for molecular biology, evolutionary biology, and ecology as discussed by the authors, and some attention has been drawn to sequence errors ([1][1]), common annotation errors also reduce the value of this database.
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A Comprehensive, Automatically Updated Fungal ITS Sequence Dataset for Reference-Based Chimera Control in Environmental Sequencing Efforts
R. Henrik Nilsson,Leho Tedersoo,Martin Ryberg,Erik Kristiansson,Martin Hartmann,Martin Unterseher,Teresita M. Porter,Johan Bengtsson-Palme,Donald M. Walker,Filipe de Sousa,Hannes A. Gamper,Ellen Larsson,Karl-Henrik Larsson,Urmas Kõljalg,Urmas Kõljalg,Robert C. Edgar,Kessy Abarenkov +16 more
TL;DR: This study introduces a comprehensive, automatically updated reference dataset for fungal ITS sequences based on the UNITE database for the molecular identification of fungi that supports chimera detection throughout the fungal kingdom and for full-length ITS sequences as well as partial datasets.
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Biogeography of ectomycorrhizal fungi associated with alders (Alnus spp.) in relation to biotic and abiotic variables at the global scale
Sergei Põlme,Sergei Põlme,Mohammad Bahram,Takashi Yamanaka,Kazuhide Nara,Yu Cheng Dai,Tine Grebenc,Hojka Kraigher,Mika Toivonen,Pi-Han Wang,Yosuke Matsuda,Triin Naadel,Peter G. Kennedy,Urmas Kõljalg,Urmas Kõljalg,Leho Tedersoo,Leho Tedersoo +16 more
TL;DR: The biogeography of ECM fungi is consistent with ancient host migration patterns from Eurasia to North America and from southern Europe to northern Europe after the last glacial maximum, indicating codispersal of hosts and their mycobionts.