Browsing by Subject "fungi"
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Causes and consequences of microbial symbioses; insights from comparative genomics of plant associated bacterial-fungal interactions
(2017)Symbioses have shaped our modern world, providing for the air we breathe; for the plant and animal diversity we celebrate; and for the functioning of ecosystems from the tops of mountains to the ocean floor. Here I study ... -
Characterization of additional components of the environmental pH-sensing complex in the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans.
(The Journal of biological chemistry, 2018-06)Pathogenic microorganisms must adapt to changes in their immediate surroundings, including alterations in pH, to survive the shift from the external environment to that of the infected host. In the basidiomycete fungal pathogen ... -
Chemotropism and Cell-Cell Fusion in Fungi.
(Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR, 2022-02-09)Fungi exhibit an enormous variety of morphologies, including yeast colonies, hyphal mycelia, and elaborate fruiting bodies. This diversity arises through a combination of polar growth, cell division, and cell fusion. Because ... -
Diversity and Effects of the Fungal Endophytes of the Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha
(2017)Fungal endophytes are ubiquitous inhabitants of plants and can have a wide range of effects on their hosts, from pathogenic to mutualistic. These fungal associates are important drivers of plant success and therefore contribute ... -
Effects of Past and Future CO2 on Grassland Soil Carbon and Microbial Ecology
(2013)Rising atmospheric CO2 concentration, currently about 390 ppm, causes climate change and is expected to reach 500 ppm or higher this century due to human activities. Soils are the largest terrestrial pool of carbon, and ... -
Evolution of Fungal Endophytes and Their Functional Transitions Between Endophytism and Saprotrophism
(2017)The kingdom Fungi is one of the major groups of the plant microbiome(Hardoim et al., 2015; Vandenkoornhuyse et al., 2015; Peay et al., 2016). Of the various plant-fungus interactions, mycorrhizal fungi that form mutualistic ... -
Punctuated evolution and transitional hybrid network in an ancestral cell cycle of fungi.
(Elife, 2016-05-10)Although cell cycle control is an ancient, conserved, and essential process, some core animal and fungal cell cycle regulators share no more sequence identity than non-homologous proteins. Here, we show that evolution along ... -
Sexual Reproduction and Signal Transduction in the Candida Species Complex
(2008-08-07)Although the majority of the population carries Candida spp as normal components of their microflora, these species are important human pathogens that have the ability to cause disease under conditions of immunosuppression ... -
Structure-Guided Development of Antifungal Protein Farnesyltransferase Inhibitors and DNA Polymerase Engineering
(2021)Eukaryotic human pathogens present a serious threat to global health, causing hundreds of millions of infections with high death rate each year. Fungi and protozoa are two major classes of eukaryotic pathogens. Fungi Cryptococcus ... -
Systematics, Phylogeography and Ecology of Elaphomycetaceae
(2011)This dissertation is an investigation of the systematics, phylogeography, and ecology of a globally distributed fungal family, the Elaphomycetaceae. In Chapter 1, we assess the literature on fungal phylogeography, reviewing ... -
The Role of Seedling Pathogens in Temperate Forest Dynamics
(2009)Fungal pathogens likely play an important role in regulating populations of tree seedlings and preserving forest diversity, due to their ubiquitous presence and differential effects on survival. Host-specific mortality from ...
