Recent and Noteworthy Publications
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, M.N. Spilde, R.T. Schelble, K.E. Dano, L.J. Crossey, C.A. Connolly, P.J. Boston, 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 and 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 102:1012–1026.
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 29:922–927.
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. Diversity and distribution of thermophilic fungi in an aridland ecosystem. Mycologia doi:10.3852/11-298.
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
