Special Issue on Fungal DNA Barcoding

A special issue of Fungal Biology titled Barcoding - Species Concepts and Species Recognition in Medical Mycology was just published. Very interesting focus on fungi that cause infections in humans and animals. Here we go, all articles and DOI links to them:

DNA barcoding of fungi causing infections in humans and animals

Laszlo Irinyi, Michaela Lackner, G. Sybren de Hoog, Wieland Meyer

The ‘species complex’ issue in clinically relevant fungi: A case study in Scedosporium apiospermum

Min Chen, Jingsi Zeng, G. Sybren De Hoog, Benjamin Stielow, A.H.G. Gerrits Van Den Ende, Wanqing Liao, Michaela Lackner

Intra- and interspecific diversity of ultrastructural markers in Scedosporium

Amaliya A. Stepanova, G. Sybren de Hoog, Nataliya V. Vasilyeva

Discriminative potential of some PCR-based and biochemical methods at Scedosporium strains

Lucia Kraková, Domenico Pangallo, Elena Piecková, Mária Majorošová

Towards proteomic species barcoding of fungi – An example using Scedosporium/Pseudallescheria complex isolates

Mareike Bernhard, Andreas Erich Zautner, Joerg Steinmann, Michael Weig, Uwe Groß, Oliver Bader

Prospective evaluation of the chromogenic medium CandiSelect 4 for differentiation and presumptive identification of non-Candida albicans Candida species

Liang Zhao, G. Sybren de Hoog, Akke Cornelissen, Qian Lyu, Lili Mou, Taohua Liu, Yu Cao, Mansoureh Vatanshenassan, Yingqian Kang

DNA barcoding revealed Nematodospora valgi gen. nov., sp. nov. and Candida cetoniae sp. nov. in the Lodderomyces clade

Dilnora E. Gouliamova, Roumen A. Dimitrov, Maudy Th. Smith, Marizeth Groenewald, Margarita M. Stoilova-Disheva, Borislav V. Guéorguiev, Teun Boekhout

Barcoding markers for Pneumocystis species in wildlife

Patrizia Danesi, Graziana da Rold, Annapaola Rizzoli, Heidi C. Hauffe, Stefano Marangon, Kittipan Samerpitak, Cristine Demanche, Jacques Guillot, Gioia Capelli, Sybren G. de Hoog

Arthrocladium, an unexpected human opportunist in Trichomeriaceae (Chaetothyriales)

Mariana M.F. Nascimento, Laura Selbmann, Somayeh Sharifynia, Abdullah M.S. Al-Hatmi, Hermann Voglmayr, Vania A. Vicente, Shuwen Deng, Alexandra Kargl, Tarek A.A. Moussa, Hassan S. Al-Zahrani, Omar A. Almaghrabi, G. Sybren de Hoog

Barcoding and species recognition of opportunistic pathogens in Ochroconis and Verruconis

Kittipan Samerpitak, Bert H.G. Gerrits van den Ende, J. Benjamin Stielow, Steph B.J. Menken, G. Sybren de Hoog

Evaluation of two novel barcodes for species recognition of opportunistic pathogens in Fusarium

Abdullah M.S. Al-Hatmi, A.H.G. Gerrits Van Den Ende, J. Benjamin Stielow, Anne D. Van Diepeningen, Keith A. Seifert, Wayne McCormick, Rafik Assabgui, Tom Gräfenhan, G. Sybren De Hoog, C. André Levesque

Sporothrix chilensis sp. nov. (Ascomycota: Ophiostomatales), a soil-borne agent of human sporotrichosis with mild-pathogenic potential to mammals

Anderson Messias Rodrigues, Rodrigo Cruz Choappa, Geisa Ferreira Fernandes, G. Sybren de Hoog, Zoilo Pires de Camargo

DNA barcoding, MALDI-TOF, and AFLP data support Fusarium ficicrescens as a distinct species within the Fusarium fujikuroi species complex

Abdullah M.S. Al-Hatmi, Mansoureh Mirabolfathy, Ferry Hagen, Anne-Cécile Normand, J. Benjamin Stielow, Rouhollah Karami-Osbo, Anne D. van Diepeningen, Jacques F. Meis, G. Sybren de Hoog

Identification of fungal pathogens in Formalin-fixed, Paraffin-embedded tissue samples by molecular methods

Volker Rickerts

Galleria mellonella: An invertebrate model to study pathogenicity in correctly defined fungal species

Ulrike Binder, Elisabeth Maurer, Cornelia Lass-Flörl

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