The ambrosia symbiosis is specific in some species and promiscuous in others: evidence from community pyrosequencing

Fungal species assemblages associated with Phytophthora ramorum-infected coast live oaks following bark and ambrosia beetle colonization in northern California

(2013) Brice A. McPherson et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

An inordinate fondness for Fusarium: Phylogenetic diversity of fusaria cultivated by ambrosia beetles in the genus Euwallacea on avocado and other plant hosts

(2013) Matthew T. Kasson et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Towards a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of fungi

(2013) Urmas Kõljalg et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Lateral transfer of a phytopathogenic symbiont among native and exotic ambrosia beetles

(2013) D. Carrillo et al.   PLANT PATHOLOGY

Distribution of Endosymbiotic Reproductive Manipulators Reflects Invasion Process and Not Reproductive System Polymorphism in the Little Fire Ant Wasmannia auropunctata

(2013) Olivier Rey et al.   PLoS One

Illumina metabarcoding of a soil fungal community

(2013) Philipp-André Schmidt et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Midgut and Fat Body Bacteriocytes in Neotropical Cerambycid Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

(2012) Olga Calderon et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

New primers to amplify the fungal ITS2 region - evaluation by 454-sequencing of artificial and natural communities

(2012) Katarina Ihrmark et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Not All Sequence Tags Are Created Equal: Designing and Validating Sequence Identification Tags Robust to Indels

(2012) Brant C. Faircloth et al.   PLoS One

Bandoniozyma gen. nov., a Genus of Fermentative and Non-Fermentative Tremellaceous Yeast Species

(2012) Patricia Valente et al.   PLoS One

Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi

(2012) C. L. Schoch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Symbiotic View of Life: We Have Never Been Individuals

(2012) Scott F. Gilbert et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Barcoded Primers Used in Multiplex Amplicon Pyrosequencing Bias Amplification

(2011) David Berry et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Multiple markers pyrosequencing reveals highly diverse and host-specific fungal communities on the mangrove trees Avicennia marina and Rhizophora stylosa

(2011) Yonathan Arfi et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

First Report of Diplodia corticola Causing Branch Cankers on Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) in Florida

(2011) T. J. Dreaden et al.   PLANT DISEASE

The sudden emergence of pathogenicity in insect-fungus symbioses threatens naive forest ecosystems

(2011) J. Hulcr et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

ITS as an environmental DNA barcode for fungi: an in silico approach reveals potential PCR biases

(2010) Eva Bellemain et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

REPEATED EVOLUTION OF CROP THEFT IN FUNGUS-FARMING AMBROSIA BEETLES

(2010) Jiri Hulcr et al.   EVOLUTION

An open source software package for automated extraction of ITS1 and ITS2 from fungal ITS sequences for use in high-throughput community assays and molecular ecology

(2010) R. Henrik Nilsson et al.   Fungal Ecology

Species abundance distributions and richness estimations in fungal metagenomics - lessons learned from community ecology

(2010) MARTIN UNTERSEHER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Quantifying microbial communities with 454 pyrosequencing: does read abundance count?

(2010) ANTHONY S. AMEND et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

New combinations in Raffaelea, Ambrosiella, and Hyalorhinocladiella, and four new species from the redbay ambrosia beetle, Xyleborus glabratus

(2010) T.C. Harrington et al.   MYCOTAXON

Rapidly denoising pyrosequencing amplicon reads by exploiting rank-abundance distributions

(2010) Jens Reeder et al.   NATURE METHODS

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi - recent updates and future perspectives

(2010) Kessy Abarenkov et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Quantification of Propagules of the Laurel Wilt Fungus and Other Mycangial Fungi from the Redbay Ambrosia Beetle, Xyleborus glabratus

(2010) T. C. Harrington et al.   PHYTOPATHOLOGY

Ambrosiella beaveri, sp. nov., Associated with an exotic ambrosia beetle, Xylosandrus mutilatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae), in Mississippi, USA

(2009) Diana L. Six et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Gut-associated yeast in bark beetles of the genus Dendroctonus Erichson (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

(2009) FLOR N. RIVERA et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Fungus Cultivation by Ambrosia Beetles: Behavior and Laboratory Breeding Success in Three Xyleborine Species

(2009) Peter H. W. Biedermann et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Insect Symbioses: A Case Study of Past, Present, and Future Fungus-growing Ant Research

(2009) Eric J. Caldera et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Wrinkles in the rare biosphere: pyrosequencing errors can lead to artificial inflation of diversity estimates

(2009) Victor Kunin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The ITS region as a target for characterization of fungal communities using emerging sequencing technologies

(2009) Rolf Henrik Nilsson et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Accurate determination of microbial diversity from 454 pyrosequencing data

(2009) Christopher Quince et al.   NATURE METHODS

Massively parallel 454 sequencing indicates hyperdiverse fungal communities in temperateQuercus macrocarpaphyllosphere

(2009) A. Jumpponen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Multigene phylogeny of filamentous ambrosia fungi associated with ambrosia and bark beetles

(2009) Sepideh Massoumi Alamouti et al.  

Sequence-Based Identification of Aspergillus, Fusarium, and Mucorales Species in the Clinical Mycology Laboratory: Where Are We and Where Should We Go from Here?

(2008) S. A. Balajee et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

A Fungal Symbiont of the Redbay Ambrosia Beetle Causes a Lethal Wilt in Redbay and Other Lauraceae in the Southeastern United States

(2008) S. W. Fraedrich et al.   PLANT DISEASE