Method or madness: does OTU delineation bias our perceptions of fungal ecology?

Jeff R Powell; Benjamin A Sikes

doi:10.1111/nph.12823

Method or madness: does OTU delineation bias our perceptions of fungal ecology?

New Phytol. 2014 Jun;202(4):1095-1097. doi: 10.1111/nph.12823.

Authors

Jeff R Powell¹, Benjamin A Sikes²

Affiliations

¹ Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney, Richmond, NSW, Australia.
² Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Kansas Biological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 66047, USA.

PMID: 24806943
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12823

No abstract available

Keywords: alpha diversity; arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi; beta diversity; high-throughput sequencing; niche conservatism; operational taxonomic unit (OTU) delineation; species concepts.

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MeSH terms

Fungi / classification*
Mycorrhizae / classification*