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R. Henrik Nilsson

R. Henrik Nilsson

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
67
Citations
42418
World Ranking
8019
National Ranking
107

Overview

R. Henrik Nilsson is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the domains of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Within these broad fields, their work delves into Plant Science, Cell Biology, Ecology, Molecular Biology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics.

Their main research topics include Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Lichen and Fungal Ecology, Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

Nilsson has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • "FungalTraits: a user-friendly traits database of fungi and fungus-like stramenopiles" (2020), published in Fungal Diversity
  • "The UNITE database for molecular identification and taxonomic communication of fungi and other eukaryotes: sequences, taxa and classifications reconsidered" (2023), published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Fusarium: more than a node or a foot-shaped basal cell" (2021), published in Studies in Mycology
  • "Best practices in metabarcoding of fungi: From experimental design to results" (2022), published in Molecular Ecology
  • "The Taxon Hypothesis Paradigm-On the Unambiguous Detection and Communication of Taxa" (2020), published in Microorganisms

Their frequent co-authors include Leho Tedersoo, Kevin D. Hyde, Kadri Runnel, Vladimir Mikryukov, and Sten Anslan.

Nilsson's research has been published repeatedly in several scientific venues. These venues include MycoKeys, Fungal Diversity, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Document Server@UHasselt (UHasselt).

Best Publications

  • Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi

    Conrad L. Schoch;Keith A. Seifert;Sabine Huhndorf;Vincent Robert

  • Towards a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of fungi

    Urmas Koljalg;Urmas Koljalg;R. Henrik Nilsson;Kessy Abarenkov;Leho Tedersoo

  • Global diversity and geography of soil fungi

    Leho Tedersoo;Mohammad Bahram;Sergei Põlme;Urmas Kõljalg

  • The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi: handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications.

    Rolf Henrik Nilsson;Karl Henrik Larsson;Andy F.S. Taylor;Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Johan Bengtsson-Palme

  • The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi - recent updates and future perspectives

    Kessy Abarenkov;R. Henrik Nilsson;R. Henrik Nilsson;Karl‐Henrik Larsson;Ian J. Alexander

  • Improved software detection and extraction of ITS1 and ITS2 from ribosomal ITS sequences of fungi and other eukaryotes for analysis of environmental sequencing data

    Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Martin Ryberg;Martin Hartmann;Sara Branco

  • UNITE: a database providing web-based methods for the molecular identification of ectomycorrhizal fungi

    Urmas Kõljalg;Karl-Henrik Larsson;Kessy Abarenkov;R. Henrik Nilsson

  • 454 Pyrosequencing analyses of forest soils reveal an unexpectedly high fungal diversity

    M. Buée;M. Reich;C. Murat;E. Morin

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

    Sergei Põlme;Sergei Põlme;Kessy Abarenkov;R. Henrik Nilsson;Björn D. Lindahl

  • Intraspecific ITS Variability in the Kingdom Fungi as Expressed in the International Sequence Databases and Its Implications for Molecular Species Identification

    R. Henrik Nilsson;Erik Kristiansson;Martin Ryberg;Nils Hallenberg

  • Fungal community analysis by high-throughput sequencing of amplified markers - a user's guide

    Björn D. Lindahl;R. Henrik Nilsson;Leho Tedersoo;Kessy Abarenkov

  • Mycobiome diversity: high-throughput sequencing and identification of fungi.

    R. Henrik Nilsson;Sten Anslan;Mohammad Bahram;Christian Wurzbacher

  • Taxonomic reliability of DNA sequences in public sequence databases: a fungal perspective.

    R. Henrik Nilsson;Martin Ryberg;Erik Kristiansson;Kessy Abarenkov

  • The Faces of Fungi database: fungal names linked with morphology, phylogeny and human impacts

    Subashini C. Jayasiri;Kevin D. Hyde;Kevin D. Hyde;Kevin D. Hyde;Hiran A. Ariyawansa;Hiran A. Ariyawansa;Jayarama Bhat

  • 454 Pyrosequencing and Sanger sequencing of tropical mycorrhizal fungi provide similar results but reveal substantial methodological biases

    Leho Tedersoo;Leho Tedersoo;R. Henrik Nilsson;R. Henrik Nilsson;Kessy Abarenkov;Teele Jairus

  • Shotgun metagenomes and multiple primer pair-barcode combinations of amplicons reveal biases in metabarcoding analyses of fungi

    Leho Tedersoo;Sten Anslan;Mohammad Bahram;Sergei Põlme

  • METAXA2: improved identification and taxonomic classification of small and large subunit rRNA in metagenomic data.

    Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Martin Hartmann;Karl Martin Eriksson;Chandan Pal

  • Contributions of rpb2 and tef1 to the phylogeny of mushrooms and allies (Basidiomycota, Fungi)

    P Brandon Matheny;Zheng Wang;Manfred Binder;Judd M Curtis

  • A subgroup of plant aquaporins facilitate the bi-directional diffusion of As(OH) 3 and Sb(OH) 3 across membranes

    Gerd P Bienert;Gerd P Bienert;Michael Thorsen;Manuela D Schüssler;Henrik R Nilsson

  • Notes, outline and divergence times of Basidiomycota

    Mao Qiang He;Mao Qiang He;Rui Lin Zhao;Kevin D. Hyde;Dominik Begerow

Frequent Co-Authors

Kessy Abarenkov
Kessy Abarenkov University of Tartu
Urmas Kõljalg
Urmas Kõljalg University of Tartu
Leho Tedersoo
Leho Tedersoo University of Tartu
Karl-Henrik Larsson
Karl-Henrik Larsson University of Oslo
Mohammad Bahram
Mohammad Bahram Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Erik Kristiansson
Erik Kristiansson Chalmers University of Technology
Alexandre Antonelli
Alexandre Antonelli University of Gothenburg
Kevin D. Hyde
Kevin D. Hyde Mae Fah Luang University
Zheng Wang
Zheng Wang Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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