Articles (Refereed and Invited)

Emerson, R. and D.O. Natvig. 1981. Adaptation of fungi to stagnant waters. In: The Fungal Community, Its Organization and Role in the Ecosystem, D.T. Wicklow and G.C. Carroll (eds.). Marcel Dekker, New York. Pp. 109-128.

Natvig, D.O. 1981. New evidence for true facultative anaerobiosis in two members of the Rhipidiaceae with notes on occurrence frequencies and substratum preferences. Mycologia 73:531-541.

Natvig, D.O. 1982. Comparative biochemistry of oxygen toxicity in lactic acid forming aquatic fungi. Archives of Microbiology 132:107-114.

Natvig, D.O. and F.H. Gleason. 1983. Oxygen uptake by obligately fermentative aquatic fungi: absence of a cyanide sensitive component. Archives of Microbiology 134:5-8.

Natvig, D.O., G. May and J.W. Taylor. 1984. Distribution and evolutionary significance of mitochondrial plasmids in Neurospora. Journal of Bacteriology 159:288-293.

Farr, S.B., D.O. Natvig and T.K. Kogoma. 1985. Toxicity and mutagenicity of plumbagin and the induction of a possible new DNA repair pathway in Escherichia coli. Journal of Bacteriology 164:1309-1316.

O'Rourke, A.T., M. Peacock, J.E. Samuel, M.E. Frazier, D.O. Natvig, L.P. Mallavia and O. Baca. 1985. Genomic analysis of Phase I and Phase II Coxiella burnetii with restriction endonucleases. J. Gen. Microbiol. 131:1543-1546.

Baca, O., A. O'Rourke, J. Samuel, D. Natvig, M. Frazier, L.P. Mallavia and O. Baca. 1985. Genomic analysis of phase I and phase II Coxiella burnetii with restriction endonucleases. In: Rickettsiae and Rickettsial Diseases. VEDA Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Czechoslovkia.

Taylor, J.W., and D.O. Natvig. 1987. Isolation of fungal DNA. In: Zoosporic Fungi in Teaching and Research, M.S. Fuller and A. Jaworsky (eds.). Pp. 252-258.

Natvig, D.O. 1987. Aqualinderella fermentans. In: Zoosporic Fungi in Teaching and Research, M.S. Fuller and A. Jaworsky (eds.). Pp. 78-79.

Natvig, D.O. 1987. Oxygen electrode measurement of respiratory chain and enzymatic activites. In: Zoosporic Fungi in Teaching and Research, M.S. Fuller and A. Jaworsky (eds.). Pp. 244-247.

Natvig, D.O., K. Imlay, D. Touati and R.A. Hallewell. 1987. Human copper-zinc superoxide dismutase complements superoxide dismutase deficient Escherichia coli mutants. J. Biol. Chem. 262:14697-14701.

Simmons, J., P. Chary and D.O. Natvig. 1987. Linkage group assignments for two Neurospora crassa catalase genes: the Metzenberg RFLP mapping kit applied to an enzyme polymorphism. Fungal Genetics Newsletter 34:55-56.

Natvig, D.O., D.A. Jackson and J.W. Taylor. 1987. Random fragment hybridization analysis of evolution in the genus Neurospora. Evolution 41:1003-1021.

Kogoma, T., S.B. Farr, K. Joyce and D.O. Natvig. 1988. Isolation of promoter fusions (soi::lacZ) inducible by oxidative stress in Escherichia coli. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 85:4799-4803.

Taylor, J.W. and D.O. Natvig. 1989. Mitochondrial DNA and evolution of heterothallic Neurospora species. Mycological Research 93:257-272.

Chary, P. and D.O. Natvig. 1989. Evidence for three differentially-regulated catalase genes in Neurospora crassa: effects of oxidative stress, heat shock, and development. Journal of Bacteriology 171:2646-2652.

Chary, P., R.A. Hallewell and D.O. Natvig. 1990. Structure, exon pattern and chromosome mapping of the gene for cytosolic copper-zinc superoxide dismutase (sod-1) from Neurospora crassa. J. Biol. Chem. 265:18961-18967

Natvig, D.O. and T. Nguyen. 1993. Rapid screening for Neurospora crassa strains lacking CuZn superoxide dismutase (sod-1). FungalGeneticsNewsl. 40:57.

Sylvester, K. and D.O. Natvig. 1993. Ribosomal DNA representation in the Orbach-Sachs and Vollmer-Yanofsky N. crassa cosmid libraries. FungalGeneticsNewsl. 40:74-75.

Chary, P., D. Dillon, A.L. Schroeder and D.O. Natvig. 1994. Superoxide dismutase (sod-1) null mutants of Neurospora crassa: oxidative stress sensitivity, spontaneous mutation rate and response to mutagens. Genetics 137:723-730.

Natvig, D.O., W.H. Dvorachek, Jr., and K. Sylvester. 1994. Evolution and Biological roles of fungal superoxide dismutases. In: MetalIonsinFungi, G. Winkelmann and D.R. Winge (eds.), Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York. Pp. 391-412.

Merino, S., M.A. Nelson, D. Jacobson and D.O. Natvig. 1996. Pseudohomothallism and evolution of the mating-type chromosome in Neurospora tetrasperma.Genetics 143:789-799.

Natvig, D.O., K. Sylvester, W.D. Dvorachek, Jr., and J. L. Baldwin. 1996. Superoxide dismutases and catalases. In: The Mycota, Vol. III: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, R. Brambl and G. Marzluf (eds), Springer-Verlag. Pp. 191-209.

Skupski, M.P., D.A. Jackson and D.O. Natvig. 1997. Phylogenetic analysis of heterothallic Neurospora species. Fungal Genetics and Biology 21:153-162.

Nelson, M.A., S. Kang, E. L. Braun, M.E. Crawford, P.L. Dolan, P.M. Leonard, J. Mitchell, A. M. Armijo, L. Bean, E. Blueyes, T. Cushing, A. Errett, M. Fleharty, M. Gorman, K. Judson, R. Miller, J. Ortega, I. Pavlova, J. Perea, S. Todisco, R. Trujillo, J. Valentine, A. Wells, M. Werner-Washburne, S. Yazzie and D. O. Natvig. 1997. Expressed sequences from conidial, mycelial and sexual stages of Neurospora crassa. Fungal Genetics and Biology 21:348-363.

Natvig, D.O. and G. May. 1997. Fungal evolution and speciation. J. Genetics 75:441-552.

Nelson, M. A., and Natvig, D. O. 1998. Neurospora crassa chromosome walks. Fungal Genet. Newsl. 45:32-33.

Nelson, M. A., Crawford, M. E., and Natvig, D. O. 1998. Restriction polymorphism maps of Neurospora crassa: 1998 update. Fungal Genet. Newsl. 45:44-54.

Braun, E.L., S. Kang, M.A. Nelson and D.O. Natvig. 1998. Identification of the first fungal annexin: Analysis of annexin gene duplications and implications for eukaryotic evolution.  J. Mol. Evol. 47:531-543.

Bieszke, J.A., E.L. Braun, L.E. Bean, S. Kang, D.O. Natvig, and K.A. Borkovich. 1999. The nop-1 gene of Neurospora crassa encodes a seven-helix transmembrane retinal-binding protein homologous to archaeal rhodopsins. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96:8034-8038

Gallegos, A., D.J. Jacobson, N.B. Raju, M.P. Skupski and D.O. Natvig.  2000. Suppressed recombination and a pairing anomaly on the mating-type chromosome of Neurospora tetrasperma.  Genetics 154: 623-633 (www.genetics.org).

Braun, E.L., A.L. Halpern, M.A. Nelson and D.O. Natvig.  2000.  Large scale comparison of fungal sequence information:  Mechanisms of innovation in Neurospora crassa and gene loss in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.  Genome Res. 10: 416-430.

Powell, A.J., D.J. Jacobson and D.O. Natvig.  2001.  Allelic diversity at the het-c locus in Neurospora tetrasperma confirms outcrossing in nature and reveals an evolutionary dilemma for pseudohomothallic ascomycetes.  J. Mol. Evol. 52:94-102.

Bean, L.E., W.H. Dvorachek, Jr., E.L. Braun, A. Errett, G.S. Saenz, M. D. Giles, M. Werner-Washburne, M.A. Nelson, and D.O. Natvig.  2001.  Analysis of the pdx-1 (snz-1/sno-1) region of the Neurospora crassa genome: correlation of pyridoxine-requiring phenotypes with mutations in two structural genes.  Genetics 157:1067-1075.

Saenz, G.S.,  J.G. Stam, D.J. Jacobson  and D.O. Natvig.  2001.  Heteroallelism at the het-c locus contributes to sexual dysfunction in outcrossed strains of Neurospora tetrasperma. Fungal Genetics and Biology 34:123-129.

Dvorachek, W.H., Jr., P.L. Dolan, M.A. Nelson and D.O. Natvig.  2001.  A provisional UniGene clone set based on ESTs from Neurospora crassaFungal Genet. Newsl. 48:12.

Michan, S., F. Lledias, J.D. Baldwin, D.O. Natvig and W. Hansberg.  2002.  Regulation and oxidation of two large monofunctional catalases. Free Radical Biology and Medicine 33:521-532.

Galagan, J., S.E. Calvo, K. Borkovich, E.U. Selker, N. Read, W. FitzHugh, L.-J. Ma, S. Smirnov, S. Purcell, B. Rehman, T. Elkins, R. Engels, S. Wang, C.B. Nielsen, J. Butler, D. Jaffe, M. Endrizzi, A. Roy, D. Qui, P. Ianakiev, D. Bell-Pedersen, E.L. Braun, D. Greenberg, G. Jedd, J. Kinsey, G.O. Kothe, E. Marcotte, W. Mewes, M.A. Nelson, U. Schulte, C.P. Selitrennikoff, C. Staben, M. Werner-Washburne, A. Zelter, K. Foley, J. Naylor, N. Stange-Thomann, R. Barrett, S. Gnerre, M. Kamal, M. Kamvysselis, D. Catcheside, R.L. Metzenberg, D.D. Perkins, S. Kroken, W. Li , J. A. Berglund, J. Dunlap, L. Glass, M.J. Orbach, M. Plamann, A. Radford, S. Seiler, R. Voelker, O. Yarden, S.A. Osmani, C.P.C. DeSouza, R.J. Pratt, L.A. Alex, R. Aramayo, D. Ebbole, M. Freitag, G. Mannhaupt, D.O. Natvig, I. Paulsen, M.S. Sachs, E.S. Lander, C. Nusbaum & B. Birren.  2003.  The genome sequence of the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa. Nature 422:859 - 868.

Powell, A.J., D.J. Jacobson, L. Salter and D.O. Natvig.  2003.  Variation among natural isolates of Neurospora on small spatial scales.  Mycologia 95: 809-819.

Northup, D.E., S.M. Barns, L.E. Yu, C.A. Connolly, D.O. Natvig and C.N. Dahm.  2003.  Diverse microbial communities inhabiting ferromanganese deposits in Lechuguilla and Spider caves.  Environmental Microbiology 5:1071-1086.

Jacobson, D.J., A.J. Powell, J.R. Dettman, G.S. Saenz, M.M. Barton,  M.D. Hiltz, W.H. Dvorachek, Jr., N.L. Glass, J.W. Taylor, and D.O. Natvig.  2004. Neurospora in temperate forests of western North America.  Mycologia 96:66-74.

Braun, E.L., D.O. Natvig, M. Werner-Washburne, M.A. Nelson. Genomics in Neurospora crassa: from one-gene-one-enzyme to 10,000 genes. 2004.  Applied Mycology and Biotechnology, Vol. 4, D.K. Arora and G.G. Khachatourians (editors). Pp 295-313.

Porras-Alfaro A., J. Herrera, D.O. Natvig and R.L. Sinsabaugh.  2007.  Effect of long-term nitrogen fertilization on mycorrhizal fungi associated with a dominant grass in a semiarid grassland. Plant and Soil 296:65-75.

Powell, A.J., D.J. Jacobson and D.O. Natvig.  2007. Ancestral polymorphism and linkage disequilibrium at the het-6 region in pseudohomothallic Neurospora tetrasperma.  Fungal Genetics and Biology 44:896-904.

Porras-Alfaro,  A.,  J. Herrera, R.L. Sinsabaugh, K.J. Odenbach,  T. Lowrey and D.O. Natvig..  2008.  A novel root fungal consortium associated with a dominant desert grass. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 74:2805-2813.

Khidir, H.H. D.M. Eudy, A. Porras-Alfaro, J. Herrera, D.O. Natvig and R.L. Sinsabaugh.  2010.  A general suite of fungal endophytes dominate the roots of two dominant grasses in a semiarid grassland. Journal of Arid Environments 74:35-42.

Herrera, J., H.H. Khidir, D.M. Eudy, A. Porras-Alfaro, D.O. Natvig and R.L. Sinsabaugh. 2010. Shifting fungal endophyte communities colonize Bouteloua gracilis: effect of host tissue and geographical distribution. Mycologia, in press.

Stajich, J., S.K. Wilke, D. Ahrén, C.H. Au, B.W. Birren, M. Borodovsky, C. Burns, B. Canbäck, L.A. Casselton, C.K. Cheng, J. Deng, F.S. Dietrich, D.C. Fargo, M.L. Farman, A.C. Gathman, J. Goldberg, R. Guigó, P.J. Hoegger, J.B. Hooker, A. Huggins, T.Y. James, T. Kamada, S. Kilaru, C. Kodira, U. Kües, D. Kupfer, H.S. Kwan, A. Lomsadze, W. Li, W.W. Lilly, L.-J. Ma, A.J. Mackey, G. Manning, F. Martin, H. Muraguchi, D.O. Natvig, H. Palmerini, M.A. Ramesh, C.J. Rehmeyer, B.A. Roe, N. Shenoy, M. Stanke, V. Ter-Hovhannisyan, A. Tunlid, R. Velagapudi, T.J. Vision, Q. Zeng, M.E. Zolan, P.J. Pukkila.  2010.  Genome evolution in mushrooms: Insights from the genome and assembled chromosomes of Coprinopsis cinerea (Coprinus cinereus).  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107:11889-11894.

 

Thomey, M.L., S.L. Collins, R. Vargas, J.E. Johnson, R.F. Brown, D.O. Natvig and M.T. Friggens.  2011.  Effect of precipitation variability on net primary production and soil respiration in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland.  Global Change Biology 17:1505-1515. 

Porras-Alfaro, A., J. Herrera, D.O. Natvig, K. Lipinski and R.L. Sinsabaugh.  2011. Diversity and distribution of soil fungal communities in a semiarid grassland.  Mycologia 103:10–21.

 

Ellison, C.E., J.E. Stajich, D.J. Jacobson, D.O. Natvig, A. Lapidus, B. Foster, A. Aerts, R. Riley, E.A. Lindquist, I.V. Grigoriev and J.W. Taylor.  2011.  Massive changes in genome architecture accompany the transition to self-fertility in the filamentous fungus Neurospora tetrasperma.  Genetics 189:55–69.

 

Berka, R.M., I.V. Grigoriev, R. Otillar, A. Salamov, J. Grimwood, I. Reid, N. Ishmael, T. John, C. Darmond, M.-C. Moisan, B. Henrissat, P.M. Coutinho, V. Lombard, D.O. Natvig, E. Lindquist, J. Schmutz, S. Lucas, P. Harris, J. Powlowski, A. Bellemare, D. Taylor, G. Butler, R.P. de Vries, I.E. Allijn, J. van den Brink, S. Ushinsky, R. Storms, A.J. Powell, I.T. Paulsen, L.D.H. Elbournei, S.E. Baker, J. Magnuson, S. LaBoissiere, A.J. Clutterbuck, D. Martinez, M. Wogulis, A. Lopez de Leon, M.W. Rey and A. Tsang.  2011.  Comparative genomic analysis of the thermophilic biomass-degrading fungi Myceliophthora thermophila and Thielavia terrestris.  Nature Biotechnology doi:10.1038/nbt.1976.

Vargas, R., S.L. Collins, M. Thomey, J. Johnson, R. Brown, D.O. Natvig and M. Friggens.  2012.  Precipitation variability and fire influence the temporal dynamics of soil CO2 efflux in an arid grassland.  Global Change Biology 18:1401-1411.  Cover article.

Powell, A.J., K.J. Odenbach, J.M. Bustamante, B. Ricken, M.I. Hutchinson and D.O. Natvig.  2012.  Thermophilic fungi in an aridland ecosystem.  Mycologia 104:813-25.

Wang, Y., E.Y. Chi, D.O. Natvig, K.S. Schanze and D.G. Whitten.  2013.  Antimicrobial activity of cationic conjugated polyelectrolytes and oligomers against Saccharomyces cerevisiae vegetative cells and ascospores.  ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 5:4555–4561.  DOI: 10.1021/am400220s

Porras-Alfaro, A., S. Raghavan, M. Garcia, R.L. Sinsabaugh, D.O. Natvig and T. Lowrey.  2014.  Endophytic fungal symbionts associated with gypsophilous plants.  Botany 92: 295-301 (DOI: 10.1139/cjb-2013-0178).

Collins, S.L., J. Belnap, N.B. Grimm, J.A. Rudgers, C.N. Dahm, P. D'Odorico, M. Litvak, D.O. Natvig, D.C. Peters, W.T. Pockman, R.L. Sinsabaugh and B.O. Wolf.  2014.  A Multiscale, hierarchical model of pulse dynamics in arid-land ecosystems. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 45: 397-419 (DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-120213-091650)

Natvig, D.O., J.W. Taylor, A. Tsang, M.I. Hutchinson and A.J. Powell.  2015.  Mycothermus thermophilus gen. et comb. nov. A new home for the itinerant thermophile Scytalidium thermophilum (Torula thermophila).  Mycologia 107:319-327.

Hudson, C.M., E. Kirton, M.I. Hutchinson, J.L. Redfern, B. Simmons, E. Ackerman, S. Singh, K.P. Williams, D.O. Natvig and A.J. Powell. 2015. Lignin-modifying processes in the rhizosphere of aridland grasses. Environmental Microbiology (DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13020)

Hutchinson, M.I., A.J. Powell, A. Tsang, N. O’Toole, R.M. Berka, K. Barry, I.V. Grigoriev, and D.O. Natvig.  2016.  Genetics of mating in members of the Chaetomiaceae as revealed by experimental and genomic characterization of reproduction in Myceliophthora heterothallica.  Fungal Genetics and Biology 86:9-19. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fgb.2015.11.007)

Kittelmann, S., C.S. Manohar, R. Kearney, D.O. Natvig and F.H. Gleason.  2017. Adaptations of fungi and fungal-like organisms for growth under reduced dissolved oxygen concentrations. In, The Fungal Community: Its Organization and Role in the Ecosystem, Fourth Edition, J. Dighton and J.F. White (eds.). CRC Press.

Robinson, A.J. and D.O. Natvig. 2019. Diverse members of the Xylariales lack canonical mating-type regions. Fungal Genetics and Biology 122:47–52. (doi.org/10.1016/j.fgb.2018.12.004)

Hutchinson, M.I., A.J. Powell, J. Herrera and Donald O. Natvig. In press. New perspectives on the distribution and roles of thermophilic fungi. In, Fungi in Extreme Environments: Ecological Role and Biotechnological Significance. S.M. Tiquia-Arashiro and M. Grube (Eds.). Springer

Whitney, K.D., J. Mudge, D.O. Natvig, A. Sundararajan, W.T. Pockman, J. Bell, S.L. Collins and J.A. Rudgers. 2019. Experimental drought reduces genetic diversity in the grassland foundation species Bouteloua eriopoda. Oecologia 189:1107-1120.

Sandona, K., T.L. Billingsley Tobias, M.I. Hutchinson, D.O. Natvig and A. Porras-Alfaro. 2019. Diversity of thermophilic and thermotolerant fungi in corn grain. Mycologia. DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2019.1631137

Hamm, P.S., M.I. Hutchison, P. Leonard, S. Melman and D.O. Natvig, D.O. 2019. First analysis of human Coccidioides isolates from New Mexico and the Southwest Four Corners Region: Implications for the distributions of C. posadasii and C. immitis and human groups at risk. J. Fungi 5, 74. DOI:10.3390/jof5030074

Robinson AJ, Natvig DO, Chain PSG. 2020. Genomic analysis of diverse members of the fungal genus Monosporascus reveals novel lineages, unique genome content and a potential bacterial associate. G3 (Bethesda) 10:2573-2583. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7407469.

Hamm PS, Taylor JW, Cook JA, Natvig DO. 2020. Decades-old studies of fungi associated with mammalian lungs and modern DNA sequencing approaches help define the nature of the lung mycobiome. PLoS Pathog. 16(7):e1008684. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7392203

Ladwig LM, Bell-Dereske, LP, Bell KC, Collins SL, Natvig DO, Taylor DL. 2021.  Soil fungal composition changes with shrub encroachment in the Chihuahuan Desert. Fungal Ecology 53:101096

Salazar-Hamm PS, Montoya KN, Liliam Montoya, Cook K, Liphardt S, Taylor JW, Joseph A. Cook JA, Natvig DO. 2022. Breathing can be dangerous: Opportunistic fungal pathogens and the diverse community of the small mammal lung mycobiome. Frontiers in Fungal Biology. DOI:10.3389/ffunb.2022.996574

 

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