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MycoMap BC Project: If you are in BC, you can have fungi and slime mould DNA sequenced for free. (i.imgur.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/britishcolumbia@lemmy.ca
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cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/38777572

MycoMap BC (through Mycota) will run for at least 12 months, you can submit just about any fungus or slime mould. There is no limit on the number of samples you can send in. You can send anything in as long as it was collected in 2025. This is a really great opportunity for northern BC especially because we are very underrepresented for how large our part of the province is!

Lichens are excluded as I believe you need to isolate each organism before testing and that is a totally different work flow.

You can read more here: MycoMap BC

iNat Project

Launch video

I'm not affiliated with this project, just wanted to share with you folks because I think a lot of the promotion for it was done on the facebook mushroom forums and not everyone uses those.

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Looks like it's only ITS sequencing ("barcoding") which is really old/cheap technology compared to modern whole genome sequencing (PacBio + HiC, etc). It's a very limited view of the genome, but still useful for broad phylogenetic analysis though, and definitely worthwhile since it'll be a while before we have a meaningful fraction of fungal species fully sequenced. I suspect there isn't much grant money out there for fungal diversity...

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, I don't know if I've seen anything other than barcoding for these types of projects. It's better than nothing, though, which is sort of what we have at the moment, especially for northern regions.

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    • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago

    This is a citizen science project, anyone can participate so long as you are in BC! You do need to have a (free) iNaturalist account to join the project and submit samples, though.

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's so cool! I'd definitely participate if my community ran something like this.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Mycota has done these in a few states so far, I'd keep an eye on them and see if one of these projects happens in your area (if you are in north america). Also if in North America, they hold continental mycoblitzes, they are over a shorter period of time and have limits on the number of submissions you can make. The continentals usually have a target species where you can submit as many of those species as you like, though. The next continental is the Fall one, October 17 – 26.

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