| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2054140 | Fungal Ecology | 2010 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
We introduce an open source software utility to extract the highly variable ITS1 and ITS2 subregions from fungal nuclear ITS sequences, the region of choice for environmental sampling and molecular identification of fungi. Inclusion of parts of the neighbouring, very conserved, ribosomal genes in the sequence identification process regularly leads to distorted results. The utility is available for UNIX-type operating systems, including MacOS X, and processes about 1 000 sequences per minute.
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Authors
R. Henrik Nilsson, Vilmar Veldre, Martin Hartmann, Martin Unterseher, Anthony Amend, Johannes Bergsten, Erik Kristiansson, Martin Ryberg, Ari Jumpponen, Kessy Abarenkov,