title: FUNGAL BIOGEOGRAPHY. Comment on "Global diversity and geography of soil fungi".
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.
authors.affiliation: Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA. Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.
authors.forename: Christopher W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Schadt
authors.affiliation: Department of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rosling
mesh_terms: D005658:Fungi / Q000145:classification* / Q000502:physiology*; D012987:Soil; D012988:Soil Microbiology
chemical_list: D012987:Soil