FungalTraits: a user-friendly traits database of fungi and fungus-like stramenopiles
- Sergei Põlme
- Kessy Abarenkov
- R. Henrik Nilsson
- Björn D. Lindahl
- Karina E. Clemmensen
- Håvard Kauserud
- Nhu Nguyen
- Rasmus Kjøller
- Scott T. Bates
- PBPetr Baldrián
- Tobias Guldberg Frøslev
- Kristjan Adojaan
- Alfredo Vizzini
- Ave Suija
- Donald H. Pfister
- Hans-Otto Baral
- Helle Järv
- Hugo Madrid
- Jenni Nordén
- Jian‐Kui Liu
- JPJulia 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 S. Tokarev
- Adriana Corrales
- Adriene Mayra Soares
- Ahto Agan
- Alexandre Reis 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 Griffith
- Thorsten Lumbsch
- 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-Jiménez
- Krišs Bitenieks
- László Irinyi
- László G. 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
- 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
- JPJulia Pawłowska
- JPJulia Pawłowska
- JPJulia Pawłowska
- JPJulia Pawłowska
Fungal Diversity · 2020 · Springer Science+Business Media
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Abstract
The cryptic lifestyle of most fungi necessitates molecular identification of the guild in environmental studies. Over the past decades, rapid development and affordability of molecular tools have tremendously improved insights of the fungal diversity in all ecosystems and habitats. Yet, in spite of the progress of molecular methods, knowledge about functional properties of the fungal taxa is vague and interpretation of environmental studies in an ecologically meaningful manner remains challenging. In order to facilitate functional assignments and ecological interpretation of environmental studies we introduce a user friendly traits and character database FungalTraits operating at genus and species hypothesis levels. Combining the information from previous efforts such as FUNGuild and FunFun together with involvement of expert knowledge, we reannotated 10,210 and 151 fungal and Stramenopila genera, respectively. This resulted in a stand-alone spreadsheet dataset covering 17 lifestyle related traits of fungal and Stramenopila genera, designed for rapid functional assignments of environmental studies. In order to assign the trait states to fungal species hypotheses, the scientific community of experts manually categorised and assigned available trait information to 697,413 fungal ITS sequences. On the basis of those sequences we were able to summarise trait and host information into 92,623 fungal species hypotheses at 1% dissimilarity threshold.