Dr. Rytas Vilgalys,
Professor of Biology. Systematics, population biology and natural history
of fungi. (photo)
Dr. Dennis Drehmel, adjunct professor,
Fungal TWIG coordinator (Discover Life in America program). Molecular
systematics of Amanitaceae and Boletaceae. (photo)
Gone, but never forgotten...
Dr.
Heath O'Brien is now a postdoc at the University of Toronto, Cyanolichen
evolution, fungal environmental genomics (photo)
Dr. Timothy James
currently at Univ. MichiganPopulation genetics and mating type evolution in
fungi. (photo)
Dr. Jeri Parrent,
is currently at University of Guelph and afterward at Univ. of Michigan.
Molecular ecology of mycorrhizal fungi. (photo)
Dr. "JP"
Xu is an associate professor at McMaster University.
Dr.
Becky Yahr is at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Systematics and population biology of lichenized fungi. (photo)
Dr. Annette
Golonka is an assistant professor at theUniv. South Carolina at Lancaster.
Ph.D.: Ecological genetics of nectar-inhabiting microorganisms.
Dr. Ana Litvintseva is an assistant
research professor in the Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology,
Duke University Medical Center
Dr. Valerie Hofstetter is currently working
at the Paris Museum. Molecular systematics of the Lyophylleae. (photo)
Dr. Daniel
Henk, is a postdoc at Imperial College, London. Molecular systematics
and ecology of Septobasidium. (photo)
Dr. Austen Piwakawaka
Ganley is an assistant professor at Massey University, New Zealand.
Concerted evolution of ribosomal DNA in fungi. (photo)
Jason Thacker, M.S. molecular
evolution of laccase genes, systematics, computer programming (photo)
Dr. Terry
Henkel is an associate professor at the Univ. of California at Humboldt.
Biodiversity of tropical fungi including ecology and systematics (photo)
Dr. Bob Marra
is an assistant agricultural scientist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment
Station, New Haven CT (photo)
Dr. Jean-Marc
Moncalvo is associate curator the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
Phylogenetic diversity of the Agaricales, also Ganoderma. (photo)
Dr. Anne
Pringle is an assistant professor at Harvard University
Dr.
James L. Johnson is an assistant professor at University of Central Washington,
Ellensburg
Ceresini, P. C., Shew, H. D., Vilgalys, R. J. and Cubeta, M. A. (2002).
Genetic diversity of Rhizoctonia solani AG-3 from potato and tobacco in North
Carolina. Mycologia 94, 437-449. download
pdf file
Ceresini, P. C., Shew, H. D., Vilgalys, R. J., Rosewich, U. L. and Cubeta,
M. A. (2002). Genetic structure of populations of Rhizoctonia solani AG-3
on potato in eastern North Carolina. Mycologia 94, 450-460. download
pdf file
Ceresini, P. C., Shew, H. D., Vilgalys, R. J., Gale, L. R. and Cubeta, M.
A. (2003). Detecting migrants in populations of Rhizoctonia solani anastomosis
group 3 from potato in North Carolina using multilocus genotype probabilities.
Phytopathology 93, 610-615. download
pdf file
Davis, E. C., Franklin, J. B., Shaw, A. J. and Vilgalys, R. (2003). Endophytic
Xylaria (Xylariaceae) among liverworts and angiosperms: Phylogenetics, distribution,
and symbiosis. American Journal of Botany 90, 1661-1667.download
pdf file
Dolan, R.W, E.S. Menges, and R.Yahr. 2004. Genetic variation in Nolina brittoniana,
a plant endemic to the central ridges of Florida. Southeastern Naturalist
3(1):25-36.
Forche, A., G. Schönian, R. Vilgalys, Y. Gräser, and T.G. Mitchell.
1999. Genetic structure of typical and atypical populations of Candida
albicans from Africa. Fungal Genetics and Biology 28:107-125.
download pdf file
Forche, A. , J. Xu, R. Vilgalys, and T. G. Mitchell. 2001. Development
and characterization of a genetic linkage map of Cryptococcus neoformans var.
neoformans using amplified fragment length polymorphisms and other markers.
Fungal Genetics and Biology31:189-203. download
pdf file
Frey, S.D., Knorr, M., Parrent, J.L., and R.T. Simpson. 2004. Chronic nitrogen
enrichment affects the structure and function of the soil microbial community
in temperate hardwood and pine forests Forest Ecology and Management 196:
159-171. download pdf file
Gonzalez, D., Carling, D. E., Kuninaga, S., Vilgalys, R. and Cubeta, M.
A. (2001). Ribosomal DNA systematics of Ceratobasidium and Thanatephorus with
Rhizoctonia anamorphs. Mycologia 93, 1138-1150.
Henkel, T. W., Terborgh, J. and Vilgalys, R. J. (2002). Ectomycorrhizal
fungi and their leguminous hosts in the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana. Mycological
Research 106, 515-531. download
pdf file
Hofstetter, V., Clemencon, H., Vilgalys, R. and Moncalvo, J. M. (2002).
Phylogenetic analyses of the Lyophylleae (Agaricales, Basidiomycota) based
on nuclear and mitochondrial rDNA sequences. Mycological Research 106, 1043-1059.
download pdf file
Hopple, J., and R. Vilgalys. (1999). Phylogenetic relationships
in the mushroom genus Coprinus and dark-spored allies based on sequence
data from the nuclear gene coding for the large ribosomal subunit RNA: divergent
domains, outgroups and monophyly. Molecular Phylogenetic and Evolution
13:1-19. download pdf file
Hughes, K.W., Petersen, R.H., Johnson, J.E., Moncalvo, J.-M., Vilgalys,
R., Redhead, S., Thomas, T., and McGhee, L.L. 2000. Infrageneric
phylogeny of Collybiass. str. based on sequences of ribosomal ITS and
LSU regions. Mycological Research 105: 164-172.
Isikhuemen, O., J.-M. Moncalvo, F. Nerud, and R. Vilgalys.
2000. Mating compatibility and phylogeography in Pleurotus tuberregium(Fr.)
Sing. Mycological Research 104:732-737. download
pdf file
James, T.Y., D. Porter, J. L. Hamrick, and R. Vilgalys.
1999. Evidence for restricted intercontinental gene flow in the cosmopolitan
mushroom, Schizophyllum commune.Evolution 53:1665-1677. download
pdf file
James, T.Y., D. Porter, C.A. Leander, R. Vilgalys, and J.E. Longcore.
2000. Molecular phylogenetics of the Chytridiomycota supports the utility
of ultrastructural data in chytrid systematics. Can. J. Bot. 78: 336-350.
download as pdf file
James, T. Y., and R. Vilgalys. 2001. Abundance and diversity of Schizophyllum
commune spore clouds in the Caribbean detected by selective sampling.
Molecular Ecology 10: 471-479. download
pdf file
James, T. Y., J.-M. Moncalvo, S. Li and R. Vilgalys. 2001. Polymorphism
at the ribosomal DNA spacers and its relation to breeding structure of the
widespread mushroom Schizophyllum commune. Genetics 157:149-161. Download
pdf file
James, T. Y., Kues, U., Rehner, S. A. and Vilgalys, R. (2004). Evolution
of the gene encoding mitochondrial intermediate peptidase and its cosegregation
with the A mating-type locus of mushroom fungi. Fungal Genetics and Biology
41, 381-390. download pdf file
James, T. Y., Liou, S. R. and Vilgalys, R. (2004). The genetic structure
and diversity of the A and B mating-type genes from the tropical oyster mushroom,
Pleurotus djamor. Fungal Genetics and Biology 41, 813-825.download
pdf file
Kues, U., James, T. Y., Vilgalys, R. and Challen, M. P. (2001). The chromosomal
region containing pab-1, mip, and the A mating type locus of the secondarily
homothallic homobasidiomycete Johnson,
J., and R. Vilgalys.1998. Phylogenetic systematics of Lepiotasensu
lato based on nuclear large subunit rDNA evidence. Mycologia 90:971-979.
Kües, U., T. Y. James, R. Vilgalys, and M. P. Challen. 2001.
The chromosomal region containing pab-1, mip, and the A mating locus of the
secondarily homothallic homobasidiomycete Coprinus bilanatus. Curr.
Genet. 39: 16-24.
Litvintseva, A. P., Marra, R. E., Nielsen, K., Heitman, J., Vilgalys, R.
and Mitchell, T. G. (2003). Evidence of sexual recombination among Cryptococcus
neoformans serotype A isolates in sub-Saharan Africa. Eukaryotic Cell 2, 1162-1168.
download pdf file
Marra, R. E., Huang, J. C., Fung, E., Nielsen, K., Heitman, J., Vilgalys,
R. and Mitchell, T. G. (2004). A genetic linkage map of Cryptococcus neoformans
variety neoformans serotype D (Filobasidiella neoformans). Genetics 167, 619-631.
download pdf file
Menges, E.S, R.W. Dolan, R.Yahr, D.R. Gordon. 2001. Comparative genetics
of seven plants endemic to Florida's Lake Wales Ridge. Castanea 66: 98-114.
Moncalvo, J.-M., D. Drehmel, and R. Vilgalys. 2000. Variation
in modes and rates of evolution in nuclear and mitochondrial ribosomal DNA
in the mushroom genus Amanita(Agaricales, Basidiomycota): phylogenetic
implications. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 16:48-63. download
as pdf file
Moncalvo, J. M., Vilgalys, R., Redhead, S. A., Johnson, J. E., James, T.
Y., Aime, M. C., Hofstetter, V., Verduin, S. J. W., Larsson, E., Baroni, T.
J., Thorn, R. G., Jacobsson, S., Clemencon, H. and Miller, O. K., Jr. (2002).
One hundred and seventeen clades of euagarics. Molecular Phylogenetics and
Evolution 23, 357-400. download pdf
file
Morehouse, E. A., James, T. Y., Ganley, A. R. D., Vilgalys, R., Berger,
L., Murphy, P. J. and Longcore, J. E. (2003). Multilocus sequence typing suggests
the chytrid pathogen of amphibians is a recently emerged clone. Molecular
Ecology 12, 395-403. download
pdf file
Mueller, G. M., Wu, Q. X., Huang, Y. Q., Guo, S. Y., Aldana, G. R. and Vilgalys,
R. (2001). Assessing biogeographic relationships between North American and
Chinese macrofungi. Journal of Biogeography. 28, 271-281. download
pdf file
Parrent, J.L., Garbelotto, M., and G.S. Gilbert. 2004. Population genetic
structure of the polypore fungus Datronia caperata in fragmented mangrove
forests. Mycological Research 108: 403-410. download
pdf file
Peintner, U., Bougher, N. L., Castellano, M. A., Moncalvo, J. M., Moser,
M. M., Trappe, J. M. and Vilgalys, R. (2001). Multiple origins of sequestrate
fungi related to Cortinarius (Cortinariaceae). American Journal of Botany
88, 2168-2179. downlad pdf file
Peintner, U., Horak, E., Moser, M. and Vilgalys, R. (2002). Rozites, Cuphocybe
and Rapacea are taxonomic synonyms of Cortinarius: New combinations and new
names. Mycotaxon 83, 447-451.
Peintner, U., Bougher, N. L., Castellano, M. A., Moncalvo, J. M., Moser,
M. M., Trappe, J. M. and Vilgalys, R. (2001). Multiple origins of sequestrate
fungi related to Cortinarius (Cortinariaceae). American Journal of Botany
88, 2168-2179.
Peintner, U., Horak, E., Moser, M. and Vilgalys, R. (2002). Rozites, Cuphocybe
and Rapacea are taxonomic synonyms of Cortinarius: New combinations and new
names. Mycotaxon 83, 447-451.
Peintner, U., Horak, E., Moser, M. M. and Vilgalys, R. (2002). Phylogeny
of Rozites, Cuphocybe and Rapacea inferred from ITS and LSU rDNA sequences.
Mycologia 94, 620-629.
Peintner, U., Moser, M. and Vilgalys, R. (2002). Thaxterogaster is a taxonomic
synonym of Cortinarius: New combinations and new names. Mycotaxon 81, 177-184.
Pringle, A., J.-M. Moncalvo, and R.
Vilgalys. 2000. High levels of variation in ribosomal DNA sequences
within and among spores of a natural population of the arbuscular mycorrhizal
fungus Acaulospora colossica.Mycologia. 92:259-268. (not available
as pdf)
Pringle, A., Moncalvo, J. M. and Vilgalys, R. (2003). Revisiting the rDNA
sequence diversity of a natural population of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus
Acaulospora colossica. Mycorrhiza 13, 227-231. download
pdf file
Redhead, S. A., Lutzoni, F., Moncalvo, J. M. and Vilgalys, R. (2002). Phylogeny
of agarics: Partial systematics solutions for core omphalinoid genera in the
Agaricales (euagarics). Mycotaxon 83, 19-57.
Redhead, S. A., Moncalvo, J. M., Vilgalys, R. and Lutzoni, F. (2002). Phylogeny
of agarics: Partial systematics solutions for bryophilous omphalinoid agarics
outside of the Agaricales (euagarics). Mycotaxon 82, 151-168.
Schönian, G., Forche, A., Tietz, H. J., Muller, M., Graser, Y., Vilgalys,
R., Mitchell, T. G. and Presber, W. (2000). Genetic structure of geographically
different populations of Candida albicans. Mycoses 43, 51-56.
Thorn, R.G., J.-M. Moncalvo, C. A. Reddy, and R. Vilgalys. 2000.
Phylogenetic analyses and the distribution of nematophagy support a monophyletic
Pleurotaceae within the polyphyletic pleurotoid-lentinoid fungi. Mycologia
92:241-252. (not available as pdf)
Walker, J.F., and J.L. Parrent. 2004. Molecular phylogenetic evidence for
the mycorrhizal status of Tremellodendron (Sebacinaceae). Memoirs
of the New York Botanical Garden 89: 291-296.
Xu, J., R. Vilgalys, and T.G. Mitchell. 1999. Lack of genetic
differentiation between two geographic samples of Candida albicans isolated
from patients infected with HIV. Journal of Bacteriology 181:1369-1373.
download pdf file
Xu, J., R.Y. Ali, D.A. Gregory, D. Amick, S.E. Lambert, H.J. Yoell, R.J.
Vilgalys, and T.G. Mitchell. 2000. Uniparental mitochondrial transmission
in sexual crosses in Cryptococcus neoformans. Current Microbiology
40:269-273. download
pdf file
Xu, J., T.G. Mitchell, and R. Vilgalys. 1999. PCR-restriction
fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analyses reveal both extensive clonality
and local genetic differentiation in Candida albicans. Molecular Ecology
8:59-73. download
pdf file
Xu, J. P., Vilgalys, R. and Mitchell, T. G. (2000). Multiple gene genealogies
reveal recent dispersion and hybridization in the human pathogenic fungus
Cryptococcus neoformans. Molecular Ecology 9, 1471-1481. download
pdf file
Xu, J., A.R. Ramos, R. Vilgalys, and T.D. Mitchell. 2000. Clonal
and spontaneous origins of fluconazole resistance in Candida albicans.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology 38: 1214-1220. download
pdf file
Xu, J., R. Vilgalys, and T.D. Mitchell. 2000. Multiple gene
genealogies reveal recent dispersion and hybridization in the human pathogenic
fungus Cryptococcus neoformans. Molecular Ecology 9:1471-1481.
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Xu, J., Luo, G., Vilgalys, R. J., Brandt, M. E. and Mitchell, T. G. (2002).
Multiple origins of hybrid strains of Cryptococcus neoformans with serotype
AD. Microbiology 148, 203-212.
Xu, J. P., Onyewu, C., Yoell, H. J., Ali, R. Y., Vilgalys, R. J. and Mitchell,
T. G. (2001). Dynamic and heterogeneous mutations to fluconazole resistance
in Cryptococcus neoformans. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
45, 420-427. download pdf
Vilgalys, R. (2003). Taxonomic misidentification in public DNA databases.
New Phytologist 160, 4-5. download
pdf
Yahr, R., R. J. Vilgalys, and P.T. DePriest. In press. Strong symbiont specificity
and selectivity in Florida scrub lichens. Molecular Ecology.
Yahr, R. and P.T. DePriest. In press. Ecology, life-history, and conservation
of the endangered lichen Cladonia perforata. Book chapter for “Plant
Conservation: A Natural History Approach”, eds. Krupnick, G, and J.
Kress.
Zervakis, G. I., Moncalvo, J. M. and Vilgalys, R. (2004). Molecular phylogeny,
biogeography and speciation of the mushroom species Pleurotus cystidiosus
and allied taxa. Microbiology-Sgm 150, 715-726. download
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