Recent Publications

Comparative genome analysis and the genome-shaping role of long terminal repeat retrotransposons in the evolutionary divergence of fungal pathogens Blastomyces dermatitidis and Blastomyces gilchristii. McTaggart, Lisa R., Thomas WA Braukmann, and Julianne V. Kus. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 14, no. 11 (2024): jkae194.

Divergent evolution of early terrestrial fungi reveals the evolution of Mucormycosis pathogenicity factors. Wang, Yan, Ying Chang, Jericho Ortañez, Jesús F. Peña, Derreck Carter-House, Nicole K. Reynolds, Matthew E. Smith et al. Genome Biology and Evolution 15, no. 4 (2023): evad046.

Genome-scale phylogenetic analyses confirm Olpidium as the closest living zoosporic fungus to the non-flagellated, terrestrial fungi. Chang, Ying, D’Ann Rochon, Satoshi Sekimoto, Yan Wang, Mansi Chovatia, Laura Sandor, Asaf Salamov, Igor V. Grigoriev, Jason E. Stajich, and Joseph W. Spatafora. Scientific Reports 11, no. 1 (2021): 3217.

Genomic characterization of three marine fungi, including Emericellopsis atlantica sp. nov. with signatures of a generalist lifestyle and marine biomass degradation. Hagestad, Ole Christian, Lingwei Hou, Jeanette H. Andersen, Espen H. Hansen, Bjørn Altermark, Chun Li, Eric Kuhnert et al. IMA fungus 12 (2021): 1-23.

Shed light in the daRk lineagES of the fungal tree of life—STRES. Selbmann, Laura, Zsigmond Benkő, Claudia Coleine, Sybren De Hoog, Claudio Donati, Irina Druzhinina, Tamás Emri et al. Life 10, no. 12 (2020): 362.

Broad genomic sampling reveals a smut pathogenic ancestry of the fungal clade Ustilaginomycotina. Kijpornyongpan, Teeratas, Stephen J. Mondo, Kerrie Barry, Laura Sandor, Juna Lee, Anna Lipzen, Jasmyn Pangilinan et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution 35, no. 8 (2018): 1840-1854.