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SUBMITTER: Ryberg M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5904500 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ryberg Martin M Nilsson R Henrik RH
MycoKeys 20180223 30
A growing proportion of fungal species and lineages are known only from sequence data and cannot be linked to any physical specimen or resolved taxonomic name. Such fungi are often referred to as "dark taxa" or "dark matter fungi". As they lack a taxonomic identity in the form of a name, they are regularly ignored in many important contexts, for example in legalisation and species counts. It is therefore very urgent to find a system to also deal with these fungi. Here, issues relating to the tax ...[more]