One fungus, which genes? Development and assessment of universal primers for potential secondary fungal DNA barcodes

Primer development and testing by partners in the European Consortium of Microbial Resource Centres (EMbaRC) was supported through funding of the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7, 2007–2013), Research Infrastructures action, under grant agreement no. FP7-228310. Part of sequencing work in CBS was supported by Fonds Economische Structuurversterking (FES), Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science grant BEK/BPR-2009/137964-U). WM and VR were supported by research grant NH&MRC #APP1031952. Genome mining at CBS and AAFC, and primer development and testing at AAFC, were supported by grants from the A.P. Sloan Foundation Programme on the Microbiology of the Built Environment. We acknowledge the Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR), King Abdulaziz University, under grant No. 1-965/1434 HiCi for technical and financial support. AY was supported by Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (Portugal), project PTDC/BIA-BIC/4585/2012. MPM was supported by grant CGL2012-359 (Spain).