Dark taxon
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Dark taxon
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In mycology, a dark taxon is a taxon that does not appear to produce any observable morphological structure and that appears impossible to cultivate in laboratory conditions. Dark taxa are chiefly detected by DNA sequencing, and in particular environmental metabarcoding. Dark taxa make up a paraphyletic group, with dark taxa appearing in every major fungal lineage. Dark taxa appear to make up a significant portion of extant fungal taxa. According to Wang et al. (2016) "the majority of the extant
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2023-11-02T06:16:27Z
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