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FungalTraits: a user-friendly traits database of fungi and fungus-like stramenopiles

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The cryptic lifestyle of most fungi necessitates molecular identification of the guild in environmental studies. Over the past decades, rapid development and affordability of molecular tools have tremendously improved insights of the fungal diversity in all ecosystems and habitats. Yet, in spite of the progress of molecular methods, knowledge about functional properties of the fungal taxa is vague and interpretation of environmental studies in an ecologically meaningful manner remains challenging. In order to facilitate functional assignments and ecological interpretation of environmental studies we introduce a user friendly traits and character database FungalTraits operating at genus and species hypothesis levels. Combining the information from previous efforts such as FUNGuild and FunFun together with involvement of expert knowledge, we reannotated 10,210 and 151 fungal and Stramenopila genera, respectively. This resulted in a stand-alone spreadsheet dataset covering 17 lifestyle related traits of fungal and Stramenopila genera, designed for rapid functional assignments of environmental studies. In order to assign the trait states to fungal species hypotheses, the scientific community of experts manually categorised and assigned available trait information to 697,413 fungal ITS sequences. On the basis of those sequences we were able to summarise trait and host information into 92,623 fungal species hypotheses at 1% dissimilarity threshold.

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We thank Dr. Mario Saare for help with the R software.

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Financial support was provided by Estonian Science Foundation grants PSG136, PRG632, PUT1170, grant from the University of Tartu (PLTOM20903), and the European Regional Development Fund (Centre of Excellence EcolChange).

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Fig. S1. Trait distributions of fungal genera in different fungal phyla. Supplementary material 1 (PDF 329 kb)

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Fig. S2. Trait distributions of Stramenopila genera in different Stramenopila phyla. Supplementary material 2 (PDF 216 kb)

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Fig. S3. Distribution of the ten most common fungal guilds among annotated sequences. Supplementary material 3 (PDF 1350 kb)

Table S1. Traits of genera. Supplementary material 4 (XLSX 967 kb)

Table S2. Traits of sequences. Supplementary material 5 (XLSX 56685 kb)

Table S3. Traits of species hypothesis. Supplementary material 6 (XLSX 5162 kb)

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Table S4. Example dataset for genus-level annotation using the vlookup function in Excel. Supplementary material 7 (XLSX 9389 kb)

Table S5. Comparison of workflows and outputs conducted in FunTraits and FUNGuild. Supplementary material 8 (XLSX 8 kb)

Supplementary item 1. List of trait states for genera and sequences. Supplementary material 9 (XLSX 31 kb)

Supplementary item 2. Instructions for annotators of fungal ITS sequences. Supplementary material 10 (DOCX 22 kb)

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Põlme, S., Abarenkov, K., Henrik Nilsson, R. et al. FungalTraits: a user-friendly traits database of fungi and fungus-like stramenopiles. Fungal Diversity 105, 1–16 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-020-00466-2

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