Taxonomic annotation of public fungal ITS sequences from the built environment - A report from an April 10-11, 2017 workshop (Aberdeen, UK)
Health and environment
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RH Nilsson [3]; A FS Taylor [4]; RI Adams [5]; C Baschien [6]; j Bengtsson-Palme [7]; P Cangren [8]; C Coleine [9]; H-M Daniel [10]; SI Glassman [11]; Y Hirooka [12]; Irinyi, Laszlo [13]; R Irsenaite [14]; PM Martin-Sanchez [15]; Meyer, Wieland [16]; S-Y Oh [17]; JP Sampaio [18]; KA Seifert [19]; F Sklenar [20]; Dirk Stubbe [21]; S-O Suh [22]; R Summerbell [23]; S Svantesson [24]; M Unterseher [25]; CM Visagie [26]; M Weiss [27]; JHC Woudenberg [28]; C Wurzbacher [29]; S Van Den Wyngaert [30]; N Yilmaz [31]; U Koljalg [32]; K Abarenkov [33]Keywords
Abstract:
Recent DNA-based studies have shown that the built environment is surprisingly rich in fungi. These indoor fungi – whether transient visitors or more persistent residents – may hold clues to the rising levels of human allergies and other medical and building-related health problems observed globally. The taxonomic identity of these fungi is crucial in such pursuits. Molecular identification of the built mycobiome is no trivial undertaking, however, given the large number of unidentified, misidentified, and technically compromised fungal sequences in public sequence databases. In addition, t…