TH090102

Here we present the novel 'taxon hypothesis' (TH) concept to accommodate fungal 'species hypothesis' (SH) into existing classification frameworks for taxonomic communication. As supplied with Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), THs are flexible in time and enable direct cross-communication of higher level taxa along with evolving classification schemes. Every TH includes given number of SHs and consequently fixed number of fungal rDNA ITS sequences. DNA sequences generated by High-throughput or Sanger sequencing studies and identified against UNITE SHs will be automatically assigned to THs as well.

本研究提出了全新的分类单元假说（taxon hypothesis, TH）概念，旨在将真菌物种假说（species hypothesis, SH）纳入现有用于分类学交流的分类框架体系。依托数字对象标识符（Digital Object Identifiers, DOIs）进行标识后，分类单元假说具备时间维度上的灵活性，可实现高级分类单元的直接跨领域交流，并适配持续演进的分类方案。每个分类单元假说均包含指定数量的物种假说，因此对应固定数量的真菌核糖体DNA ITS序列。通过高通量测序或桑格测序获得，并与UNITE数据库物种假说完成比对鉴定的DNA序列，也将自动被归类至相应的分类单元假说之下。