Spores, Fungal

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 50 Years of Emmonsia Disease in Humans: The Dramatic Emergence of a Cluster of Novel Fungal Pathogens. 
  • A continental view of pine-associated ectomycorrhizal fungal spore banks: a quiescent functional guild with a strong biogeographic pattern. 
  • A global meta-analysis of Tuber ITS rDNA sequences: species diversity, host associations and long-distance dispersal. 
  • A promoter deletion reduces the rate of mitotic, but not meiotic, recombination at the HIS4 locus in yeast. 
  • Abundance and diversity of Schizophyllum commune spore clouds in the Caribbean detected by selective sampling. 
  • Adenylyl cyclase G, an osmosensor controlling germination of Dictyostelium spores. 
  • Aged-related physiological studies comparing Candida albicans chlamydospores to yeasts. 
  • Asymmetric drop coalescence launches fungal ballistospores with directionality. 
  • Calcineurin is required for hyphal elongation during mating and haploid fruiting in Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Calcineurin localizes to the hyphal septum in Aspergillus fumigatus: implications for septum formation and conidiophore development. 
  • Calcineurin orchestrates dimorphic transitions, antifungal drug responses and host-pathogen interactions of the pathogenic mucoralean fungus Mucor circinelloides. 
  • Calcineurin target CrzA regulates conidial germination, hyphal growth, and pathogenesis of Aspergillus fumigatus. 
  • Carbonic anhydrase and CO2 sensing during Cryptococcus neoformans growth, differentiation, and virulence. 
  • Changes in the cell surface of the dimorphic forms of Candida albicans by treatment with hydrolytic enzymes. 
  • Characterization of a mutation in yeast causing nonrandom chromosome loss during mitosis. 
  • Chlamydospore formation during hyphal growth in Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Circadian clock-controlled genes isolated from Neurospora crassa are late night- to early morning-specific. 
  • Colonization with small conidia Aspergillus species is associated with bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome: a two-center validation study. 
  • Contribution of RPB2 to multilocus phylogenetic studies of the euascomycetes (Pezizomycotina, Fungi) with special emphasis on the lichen-forming Acarosporaceae and evolution of polyspory. 
  • Crawl spaces as reservoirs for transmission of mold to the livable part of the home environment. 
  • Cryptococcosis and the basidiospore. 
  • Cryptococcus neoformans Mating and Genetic Crosses. 
  • Dectin-1 and IL-17A suppress murine asthma induced by Aspergillus versicolor but not Cladosporium cladosporioides due to differences in β-glucan surface exposure. 
  • Deletion of Cryptococcus neoformans AIF ortholog promotes chromosome aneuploidy and fluconazole-resistance in a metacaspase-independent manner. 
  • Diploid strains of the pathogenic basidiomycete Cryptococcus neoformans are thermally dimorphic. 
  • Discovery of a modified tetrapolar sexual cycle in Cryptococcus amylolentus and the evolution of MAT in the Cryptococcus species complex. 
  • Dissecting the architecture of a quantitative trait locus in yeast. 
  • Effects of Temperature on the Meiotic Recombination Landscape of the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 
  • Efficient sporulation of yeast in media buffered near pH6. 
  • Electron microscopy of young Candida albicans chlamydospores. 
  • Endosymbiosis: the evil within. 
  • Epidemiological investigation of vaginal Saccharomyces cerevisiae isolates by a genotypic method. 
  • Evidence that Blastocladiella emersonii zoospore maintenance factor is a sulfhydryl group-containing cyclic ribotide. 
  • Expression of a constitutively active Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent kinase in Aspergillus nidulans spores prevents germination and entry into the cell cycle. 
  • Extracellular cAMP is sufficient to restore developmental gene expression and morphogenesis in Dictyostelium cells lacking the aggregation adenylyl cyclase (ACA). 
  • First report of urease activity in the novel systemic fungal pathogen Emergomyces africanus: a comparison with the neurotrope Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Genetic evidence for preferential strand transfer during meiotic recombination in yeast. 
  • Genome structure of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain widely used in bioethanol production. 
  • Heterothallic mating in Mucor irregularis and first isolate of the species outside of Asia. 
  • Heterotrimeric G-alpha subunits Gpa11 and Gpa12 define a transduction pathway that control spore size and virulence in Mucor circinelloides. 
  • High diversity and widespread occurrence of mitotic spore mats in ectomycorrhizal Pezizales. 
  • Improved resolution of major clades within Tuber and taxonomy of species within the Tuber gibbosum complex. 
  • Isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans from infected animals reveal genetic exchange in unisexual, alpha mating type populations. 
  • Long-Chain Polyprenols Promote Spore Wall Formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 
  • Maximal polar growth potential depends on the polarisome component AgSpa2 in the filamentous fungus Ashbya gossypii. 
  • Mechanistic plasticity of sexual reproduction and meiosis in the Candida pathogenic species complex. 
  • Meiotic chromosome segregation in triploid strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 
  • Method for the purification of Filobasidiella neoformans basidiospores by flow cytometry. 
  • Molecular Tools for Carotenogenesis Analysis in the Mucoral Mucor circinelloides. 
  • Molecular phylogeny and systematics of Polyblastia (Verrucariaceae, Eurotiomycetes) and allied genera. 
  • Mucor circinelloides Thrives inside the Phagosome through an Atf-Mediated Germination Pathway. 
  • Mucor circinelloides: Growth, Maintenance, and Genetic Manipulation. 
  • Natural variation in CDC28 underlies morphological phenotypes in an environmental yeast isolate. 
  • New North American truffles (Tuber spp.) and their ectomycorrhizal associations. 
  • New species and distribution records for Clavulina (Cantharellales, Basidiomycota) from the Guiana Shield, with a key to the lowland neotropical taxa. 
  • New species of Xerocomus (Boletales) from the Guiana Shield, with notes on their mycorrhizal status and fruiting occurrence 
  • Novel taxa of thermally dimorphic systemic pathogens in the Ajellomycetaceae (Onygenales). 
  • Outcrossing, mitotic recombination, and life-history trade-offs shape genome evolution in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 
  • PAK kinases Ste20 and Pak1 govern cell polarity at different stages of mating in Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Phenotypic dissections of the Blastocladiella emersonii zoospore's developmental choice. 
  • Physical detection of heteroduplexes during meiotic recombination in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 
  • Profiling a killer, the development of Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Pseudohyphal growth of Cryptococcus neoformans is a reversible dimorphic transition in response to ammonium that requires Amt1 and Amt2 ammonium permeases. 
  • Purification of a naturally produced, low molecular weight organic factor that reversibly blocks encystment of Blastocladiella emersonii zoospores. 
  • Role of Arf-like proteins (Arl1 and Arl2) of Mucor circinelloides in virulence and antifungal susceptibility. 
  • Role of phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate in formation of forespore membrane in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. 
  • Role of septins in the orientation of forespore membrane extension during sporulation in fission yeast. 
  • SP75 is encoded by the DP87 gene and belongs to a family of modular Dictyostelium discoideum outer layer spore coat proteins. 
  • Schizosaccharomyces pombe Sst4p, a conserved Vps27/Hrs homolog, functions downstream of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase Pik3p to mediate proper spore formation. 
  • Sex in fungi. 
  • Sex-induced silencing operates during opposite-sex and unisexual reproduction in Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Sexual reproduction between partners of the same mating type in Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Simple Mendelian inheritance of the reiterated ribosomal DNA of yeast. 
  • Sok2 regulates yeast pseudohyphal differentiation via a transcription factor cascade that regulates cell-cell adhesion. 
  • Sorting nexin homologues are targets of phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate in sporulation of Schizosaccharomyces pombe. 
  • Spatiotemporal Transformation in the Alkaloid Profile of Pinus Roots in Response to Mycorrhization. 
  • Sphingolipids signal heat stress-induced ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis. 
  • Sporangiospore size dimorphism is linked to virulence of Mucor circinelloides. 
  • Spores as infectious propagules of Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Suilloid fungi as global drivers of pine invasions. 
  • Surface availability of beta-glucans is critical determinant of host immune response to Cladosporium cladosporioides. 
  • The Aspergillus fumigatus septins play pleiotropic roles in septation, conidiation, and cell wall stress, but are dispensable for virulence. 
  • The Evolution of Sexual Reproduction and the Mating-Type Locus: Links to Pathogenesis of Cryptococcus Human Pathogenic Fungi. 
  • The RGS protein Crg2 regulates both pheromone and cAMP signalling in Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • The captured launch of a ballistospore. 
  • The tail domain of the Aspergillus fumigatus class V myosin MyoE orchestrates septal localization and hyphal growth. 
  • Timing of plant immune responses by a central circadian regulator. 
  • Tornadic Shear Stress Induces a Transient, Calcineurin-Dependent Hypervirulent Phenotype in Mucorales Molds. 
  • Total reconstitution of copper-zinc superoxide dismutase. 
  • Transitions in sexuality: recapitulation of an ancestral tri- and tetrapolar mating system in Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Two proteins of the Dictyostelium spore coat bind to cellulose in vitro. 
  • Uniparental mitochondrial transmission in sexual crosses in Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Unisexual reproduction enhances fungal competitiveness by promoting habitat exploration via hyphal growth and sporulation. 
  • Using a multigene phylogenetic analysis to assess generic delineation and character evolution in Verrucariaceae (Verrucariales, Ascomycota). 
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  Keywords of People

  • Shinohara, Mari L., Professor of Integrative Immunobiology, Cell Biology