DNA, Ribosomal Spacer

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comparison of the community diversity of foliar fungal endophytes between seedling and adult loblolly pines (Pinus taeda). 
  • A universal molecular method for identifying underground plant parts to species. 
  • Abundance and diversity of Schizophyllum commune spore clouds in the Caribbean detected by selective sampling. 
  • Association between 16S-23S internal transcribed spacer sequence groups of Mycobacterium avium complex and pulmonary disease. 
  • Atractiella rhizophila, sp. nov., an endorrhizal fungus isolated from the Populus root microbiome. 
  • Attempted molecular detection of the thermally dimorphic human fungal pathogen Emergomyces africanus in terrestrial small mammals in South Africa. 
  • CO2-enrichment and nutrient availability alter ectomycorrhizal fungal communities. 
  • Cadmium(II) removal by a hyperaccumulator fungus Phoma sp. F2 isolated from blende soil. 
  • Community analysis reveals close affinities between endophytic and endolichenic fungi in mosses and lichens 
  • Culture-based study of endophytes associated with rubber trees in Peru reveals a new class of Pezizomycotina: Xylonomycetes. 
  • Diversity and host range of foliar fungal endophytes: are tropical leaves biodiversity hotspots? 
  • Diversity and phylogenetic affinities of foliar fungal endophytes in loblolly pine inferred by culturing and environmental PCR. 
  • Ectomycorrhizal fungal community in a tropical forest dominated by the Neotropical Dipterocarp, Pakaraimea dipterocarpaceae 
  • Formalizing morphologically cryptic biological entities: new insights from DNA taxonomy, hybridization, and biogeography in the leafy liverwort Porella platyphylla (Jungermanniopsida, Porellales). 
  • Frequent circumarctic and rare transequatorial dispersals in the lichenised agaric genus Lichenomphalia (Hygrophoraceae, Basidiomycota). 
  • Fungal community analysis by large-scale sequencing of environmental samples. 
  • High diversity and widespread occurrence of mitotic spore mats in ectomycorrhizal Pezizales. 
  • History and evolution of alpine plants endemic to the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: Aconitum gymnandrum (Ranunculaceae). 
  • In Vitro Antifungal Susceptibility of Yeast and Mold Phases of Isolates of Dimorphic Fungal Pathogen Emergomyces africanus (Formerly Emmonsia sp.) from HIV-Infected South African Patients. 
  • Invasive disease caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria, Tanzania. 
  • Membranomyces species are common ectomycorrhizal symbionts in Northern Hemisphere forests 
  • Molecular characterization of nontuberculous mycobacteria isolated from human cases of disseminated disease in the USA, Thailand, Malawi, and Tanzania. 
  • Molecular identification of Aspergillus species collected for the Transplant-Associated Infection Surveillance Network. 
  • Molecular phylogeny and systematics of Polyblastia (Verrucariaceae, Eurotiomycetes) and allied genera. 
  • Molecular phylogeny, biogeography and speciation of the mushroom species Pleurotus cystidiosus and allied taxa. 
  • Multiple gene genealogies reveal recent dispersion and hybridization in the human pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • New species and distribution records for Clavulina (Cantharellales, Basidiomycota) from the Guiana Shield, with a key to the lowland neotropical taxa. 
  • New species of Clavulina (Cantharellales, Basidiomycota) with resupinate and effused basidiomata from the Guiana Shield. 
  • New species of Xerocomus (Boletales) from the Guiana Shield, with notes on their mycorrhizal status and fruiting occurrence 
  • One species or at least eight? Delimitation and distribution of Frullania tamarisci (L.) Dumort. s. l. (Jungermanniopsida, Porellales) inferred from nuclear and chloroplast DNA markers. 
  • Phylogenetic affiliations of members of the heterogeneous lichen-forming fungi of the genus Lecidea sensu Zahlbruckner (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota). 
  • Phylogenetic analyses of eurotiomycetous endophytes reveal their close affinities to Chaetothyriales, Eurotiales, and a new order - Phaeomoniellales. 
  • Phylogenetic analyses of morphological evolution in the gametophyte and sporophyte generations of the moss order Hookeriales (Bryopsida). 
  • Phylogenetic and biogeographic relationships of eastern Asian and eastern North American disjunct Suillus species (fungi) as inferred from nuclear ribosomal RNA ITS sequences. 
  • Phylogenetic reassessment of the Teloschistaceae (lichen-forming Ascomycota, Lecanoromycetes). 
  • Phylogenetic relationships of Rhizoctonia fungi within the Cantharellales. 
  • Phylogeny of extant and extinct Juglandaceae inferred from the integration of molecular and morphological data sets 
  • Plant host and soil origin influence fungal and bacterial assemblages in the roots of woody plants. 
  • Polymorphism at the ribosomal DNA spacers and its relation to breeding structure of the widespread mushroom Schizophyllum commune. 
  • Prevalence of clinical isolates of Cryptococcus gattii serotype C among patients with AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • Prochlorococcus ecotype abundances in the North Atlantic Ocean as revealed by an improved quantitative PCR method. 
  • Single origin and subsequent diversification of central Andean endemic Umbilicaria species. 
  • Slow algae, fast fungi: exceptionally high nucleotide substitution rate differences between lichenized fungi Omphalina and their symbiotic green algae Coccomyxa. 
  • Survey of corticioid fungi in North American pinaceous forests reveals hyperdiversity, underpopulated sequence databases, and species that are potentially ectomycorrhizal. 
  • Two new endophytic Atractiellomycetes, Atractidochium hillariae and Proceropycnis hameedii.