Comment on "Global diversity and geography of soil fungi"

Christopher W. Schadt; Anna Rosling

doi:10.1126/science.aaa4269

Comment on "Global diversity and geography of soil fungi"

Christopher W. Schadt
, Anna Rosling

Integrative Microbiomics

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Abstract

Tedersoo et al. (Research Article, 28 November 2014, p. 1078) present a compelling study regarding patterns of biodiversity of fungi, carried out at a scale unprecedented to date for fungal biogeographical studies. The study demonstrates strong global biogeographic patterns in richness and community composition of soil fungi. What concerns us with the study is what we do not see. Unfortunately, this study underestimates the fungal diversity of one key group of soil fungi due to reliance on a single primer with known flaws.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1438a
Journal	Science
Volume	348
Issue number	6242
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa4269
State	Published - Jun 26 2015

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