An ontology of fungal subcellular traits

Abstract

•Premise of the study: The Fungal Subcellular Ontology used in the Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life project is a taxon-wide ontology (controlled vocabulary for attributes) designed to clarify and integrate the broad range of subcellular characters and character states used in higher-level fungal systematics. As in the algae, cellular characters are important phylogenetic markers in kingdom Fungi. The Fungal Subcellular Ontology has been developed primarily to help researchers, especially systematists, in their search for information on subcellular characters across the Fungi, and it complements existing biological ontologies, including the Gene Ontology.