Cloning of ribosomal ITS PCR products creates frequent, non-random chimeric sequences – a test involving heterozygotes between Gymnopus dichrous taxa I and II

A Comprehensive, Automatically Updated Fungal ITS Sequence Dataset for Reference-Based Chimera Control in Environmental Sequencing Efforts

(2015) R. Henrik Nilsson et al.   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

Does host plant richness explain diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi? Re-evaluation of Gaoet al. (2013) data sets reveals sampling effects

(2014) Leho Tedersoo et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Towards a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of fungi

(2013) Urmas Kõljalg et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Sample richness and genetic diversity as drivers of chimera formation in nSSU metagenetic analyses

(2012) V. G. Fonseca et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi

(2012) C. L. Schoch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Five simple guidelines for establishing basic authenticity and reliability of newly generated fungal ITS sequences

(2012) R. Henrik Nilsson et al.   MycoKeys

DECIPHER, a Search-Based Approach to Chimera Identification for 16S rRNA Sequences

(2011) Erik S. Wright et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Chimeric 16S rRNA sequence formation and detection in Sanger and 454-pyrosequenced PCR amplicons

(2011) B. J. Haas et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Intragenomic variation in the ITS rDNA region obscures phylogenetic relationships and inflates estimates of operational taxonomic units in genus Laetiporus

(2011) Daniel L. Lindner et al.   MYCOLOGIA

An open source software package for automated extraction of ITS1 and ITS2 from fungal ITS sequences for use in high-throughput community assays and molecular ecology

(2010) R. Henrik Nilsson et al.   Fungal Ecology

Reducing chimera formation during PCR amplification to ensure accurate genotyping

(2010) R.P. Smyth et al.   GENE

Using heterozygosity to estimate a percentage DNA sequence similarity for environmental species’ delimitation across basidiomycete fungi

(2009) Karen W. Hughes et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Mining metadata from unidentified ITS sequences in GenBank: A case study in Inocybe (Basidiomycota)

(2008) Martin Ryberg et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Secondary structure of ITS2 rRNA provides taxonomic characters for systematic studies — a case in Lycoperdaceae (Basidiomycota)

(2008) Dirk Krüger et al.