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Olavi Kurina

Professor, Estonian University of Life Sciences
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PlutoF—a web based workbench for ecological and taxonomic research, with an online implementation for fungal ITS sequences

…, M Prous, A Aan, M Ots, O Kurina… - Evolutionary …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
DNA sequences accumulating in the International Nucleotide Sequence Databases (INSD)
form a rich source of information for taxonomic and ecological meta-analyses. However, …

Global patterns in endemicity and vulnerability of soil fungi

…, N Wijayawardene, NS Yorou, O Kurina… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fungi are highly diverse organisms, which provide multiple ecosystem services. However,
compared with charismatic animals and plants, the distribution patterns and conservation …

The Global Soil Mycobiome consortium dataset for boosting fungal diversity research

…, N Wijayawardene, N Hagh-Doust, NS Yorou, O Kurina… - Fungal Diversity, 2021 - Springer
Fungi are highly important biotic components of terrestrial ecosystems, but we still have a
very limited understanding about their diversity and distribution. This data article releases a …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid, large-scale species discovery in hyperdiverse taxa using 1D MinION sequencing

…, E Hartop, J Puniamoorthy, WT Lee, SN Kutty, O Kurina… - BMC biology, 2019 - Springer
Background More than 80% of all animal species remain unknown to science. Most of these
species live in the tropics and belong to animal taxa that combine small body size with high …

Connecting the multiple dimensions of global soil fungal diversity

…, NN Wijayawardene, N Yorou, O Kurina… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
How the multiple facets of soil fungal diversity vary worldwide remains virtually unknown,
hindering the management of this essential species-rich group. By sequencing high-resolution …

[PDF][PDF] Annotated checklist of fungus gnats from Sweden (Diptera: Bolitophilidae, Diadocidiidae, Ditomyiidae, Keroplatidae and Mycetophilidae)

J Kjaerandsen, K Hedmark, O Kurina… - Insect Systematics & …, 2007 - academia.edu
… All content following this page was uploaded by Olavi KurinaKurina and A. Polevoi are
presented here. The material is … Kurina (2003a) treated the subfamily Sciophilinae of the dry …

[HTML][HTML] Hidden in plain sight: Comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Keroplatidae and Lygistorrhinidae (Diptera) reveals parallel evolution and leads to a revised …

…, N Burdíková, V Blagoderov, J Kjærandsen, O Kurina… - Insects, 2020 - mdpi.com
We provide the first molecular phylogeny of Keroplatidae and Lygistorrhinidae, families of
fungus gnats (Diptera: Bibionomorpha: Sciaroidea). Phylogenies reconstructed by Maximum …

[HTML][HTML] The northernmost record of a blood-sucking ectoparasite, Lipoptena fortisetosa Maa (Diptera: Hippoboscidae), in Estonia

O Kurina, H Kirik, H Õunap, E Õunap - Biodiversity Data Journal, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Deer keds are obligatory haematophagous parasites of large homeothermic
animals, particularly cervids. Two of the five known species occurring in Europe—Lipoptena …

Twenty years of Dipterology through the pages of Zootaxa

…, SD Gaimari, SS Nihei, NL Evenhuis, O Kurina… - 2021 - bora.uib.no
We present a summary and analysis of the Diptera-related information published in Zootaxa
from 2001 to 2020, with a focus on taxonomic papers. Altogether, 2,527 papers on Diptera …

[HTML][HTML] Two new Neuratelia Rondani (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) species from Western Palaearctic: a case of limited congruence between morphology and DNA …

O Kurina, E Õunap, K Põldmaa - ZooKeys, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Two new Mycetophilidae species, Neuratelia jabalmoussae sp. n. and Neuratelia salmelai
sp. n. are described on the basis of material collected from Lebanon, Estonia and Finland. …