Table 1.

List of barcode loci for fungal taxonomic identification

Genomic locus	Proposed by	Ref.
ITS1-4 (whole region)	Schoch et al.	[24]
ITS1 as preferred for Basidiomycota identification	Bellemain et al.	[68]
ITS2 as preferred for Ascomycota identification	Bellemain et al.	[68]
ITS2 as preferred for human mycobiota identification	Hoggard et al.	[70]
ITS2 subregion	Nilsson et al.	[62]
TEF1α	James et al.	[77]
TOP1	Stielow et al.	[76]
PGK	Stielow et al.	[76]
RPB1	Matheny et al.	[78]
RPB2 for environmental fungal communities	Větrovský et al.	[80]
IGS	Morrison et al.	[81]
β-tubulin	Geiser et al.	[82]
LSU (D1/D2 region)	Kurtzman and Robnett	[72]

IGS: Intergenic spacer; LSU: large subunit; PGK: phosphoglycerate kinase; TOP1: topoisomerase I.