Formal description of sequence-based voucherless Fungi: promises and pitfalls, and how to resolve them

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There is urgent need for a formal nomenclature of sequence-based, voucherless Fungi , given that environmental sequencing has accumulated more than one billion fungal ITS reads in the Sequence Read Archive, about 1,000 times as many as fungal ITS sequences in GenBank. These unnamed Fungi could help to bridge the gap between 115,000 to 140,000 currently accepted and 2.2 to 3.8 million predicted species, a gap that...

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