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SUBMITTER: Samarasinghe H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8479693 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Samarasinghe Himeshi H Lu Yi Y Aljohani Renad R Al-Amad Ahmad A Yoell Heather H Xu Jianping J
iScience 20210909 10
Yeasts, broadly defined as unicellular fungi, fulfill essential roles in soil ecosystems as decomposers and nutrition sources for fellow soil-dwellers. Broad-scale investigations of soil yeasts pose a methodological challenge as metagenomics are of limited use for identifying this group of fungi. Here we characterize global soil yeast diversity using fungal DNA barcoding on 1473 yeasts cultured from 3826 soil samples obtained from nine countries in six continents. We identify mean annual precipi ...[more]