TY - JOUR
T1 - Characterization and rank assignment criteria for the anaerobic fungi (Neocallimastigomycota)
AU - Elshahed, Mostafa S.
AU - Hanafy, Radwa A.
AU - Cheng, Yanfen
AU - Dagar, Sumit S.
AU - Edwards, Joan E.
AU - Flad, Veronika
AU - Fliegerová, Kateřina Olša
AU - Griffith, Gareth W.
AU - Kittelmann, Sandra
AU - Lebuhn, Michael
AU - O'malley, Michelle A.
AU - Podmirseg, Sabine Marie
AU - Solomon, Kevin V.
AU - Vinzelj, Julia
AU - Young, Diana
AU - Youssef, Noha H.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work has been supported by National Science Foundation grant 2029478 to N.H.Y. and M.S.E.; National Science Foundation China grant 32061143034 to Y.C.; the Austrian Science Fund grant I3808 to S.M.P. and J.V.; the German Research Foundation (DFG) grant LE 3744/4-1 to M.L. and D.Y.; the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India Grant BT/PR15694/PBD/26/506/2015 to S.S.D.; the National Science Foundation Grant IOS-2128271 to M.A.O. and IOS-2128272 to K.V.S.; and the US Department of Energy, Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research grant numbers DE-SC0022206 to K.V.S., and DE-SC0020420 to M.A.O.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors.
PY - 2022/7/19
Y1 - 2022/7/19
N2 - Establishing a solid taxonomic framework is crucial for enabling discovery and documentation efforts. This ensures effective communication between scientists as well as reproducibility of results between laboratories, and facilitates the exchange and preservation of biological material. Such framework can only be achieved by establishing clear criteria for taxa characterization and rank assignment. Within the anaerobic fungi (phylum Neocallimastigomycota), the need for such criteria is especially vital. Difficulties associated with their isolation, maintenance and long-term storage often result in limited availability and loss of previously described taxa. To this end, we provide here a list of morphological, microscopic, phylogenetic and phenotypic criteria for assessment and documentation when characterizing newly obtained Neocallimastigomycota isolates. We also recommend a polyphasic rank-assignment scheme for novel genus-, species-and strain-level designations for newly obtained Neocallimastigomycota isolates.
AB - Establishing a solid taxonomic framework is crucial for enabling discovery and documentation efforts. This ensures effective communication between scientists as well as reproducibility of results between laboratories, and facilitates the exchange and preservation of biological material. Such framework can only be achieved by establishing clear criteria for taxa characterization and rank assignment. Within the anaerobic fungi (phylum Neocallimastigomycota), the need for such criteria is especially vital. Difficulties associated with their isolation, maintenance and long-term storage often result in limited availability and loss of previously described taxa. To this end, we provide here a list of morphological, microscopic, phylogenetic and phenotypic criteria for assessment and documentation when characterizing newly obtained Neocallimastigomycota isolates. We also recommend a polyphasic rank-assignment scheme for novel genus-, species-and strain-level designations for newly obtained Neocallimastigomycota isolates.
KW - anaerobic fungi
KW - characterization
KW - large ribosomal subunit
KW - Nocallimastigomycota
KW - rank assignment
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U2 - 10.1099/ijsem.0.005449
DO - 10.1099/ijsem.0.005449
M3 - Article
C2 - 35852502
AN - SCOPUS:85134366466
SN - 1466-5026
VL - 72
JO - International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
JF - International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
IS - 7
M1 - 005449
ER -