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Joseph W. SpataforaProfessor and Associate Chair,
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Mycology; systematics and evolutionary biology of fungi
Research in our laboratory is focused on molecular systematics and population genetics of fungi. Particular emphases include the evolutionary biology of fungal symbioses as they relates to the evolution of host shifts, the phylogenetic integration of ecologically disparate groups of fungi, and population genetics of closely related organisms with different reproductive life histories.
Ryan Kepler (PhD expected 2009)
Cedar Hesse (PhD expected 2011)
Alija Mujic (PhD expected 2013)
Alisha Owensby (Ph.D)
BOT 461/561 Mycology
BOT 490/590 Special Topics in Mycology
BOT 505 Mouldy Thursday: OSU Mycology Discussion Group
BI 445/545 Evolution
"Tree of Life", Ascomycete Root Page
Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life (AFTOL)
An Electronic Monograph of Cordyceps and Related Fungi
(since 2006)
Hosaka, K., Castellano, M.A., and J.W. Spatafora. Biogeography of the Hysterangiales (Phallomycetidae, Basidiomycota). 2008. Mycological Research 112: 448-462.
Zuccaro, A., Schoch, C.L., Spatafora, J.W., Kohlmeyer, J., Draeger, S., and J.I. Mitchell. 2008. Detection and identification of predominant fungi associated with the brown seaweed Fucus serratus , using different environmental analysis. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 74: 931-941.
Andrie, R.M., Schoch, C.L., Hedges, R., Spatafora, J.W. and L.M. Ciufetti. 2008. Homologs of ToxB, a host-selective toxin gene from Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, are present in the genome of sister-species Pyrenophora bromi and other members of the Ascomycota. Fungal Genetics and Biology 45: 363-377.
Hane, J.K., Lowe, R.G.T., Solomon, P.S., Tan, K.-C., Schoch, C.L., Spatafora, J.W., Crous, P.W., Kodira, C., Birren, B.W., Torriani, S.F.F., McDonald, B.A. and R. P. Oliver. 2007. Dothideomycete-plant interactions illuminated by genome sequencing and EST analysis of the wheat pathogen Stagonospora nodorum . The Plant Cell 19: 3347-3368.
Dunham, S., Larson, K.H., and J.W. Spatafora. 2007. Species richness and community composition of mat-forming ectomycorrhizal fungi in old- and second-growth Douglas-fir forests of the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon, USA. Mycorrhiza 17: 633-645.
Sung, G.-H., J.-M. Sung, N.L. Hywel-Jones and J.W. Spatafora. 2007. A multi-gene phylogeny of Clavicipitaceae (Ascomycota, Fungi): Identification of localized incongruence using a combinational bootstrap approach. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44: 1204-1223.
Hibbett, D.S. Binder, M., Bischoff, J.F., Blackwell, M., Cannon, P.F., Eriksson, O.E., Huhndorf, S., James, T.Y., Kirk, P.M., Lucking, R., Lumbsch, H.T., Lutzoni, F.L., Matheny, P.B., McLaughlin, D.J., Powell, M.J., Redhead, S., Schoch, C.L., Spatafora, J.W., Stalpers, J.A., Vilgalys, R., Aime, M.C., Aptroot, A., Bauer, R., Begerow, D., Benny, G.L., Castlebury, L.A., Crous, P.W., Dai, Y.-C., Gams, W., Geiser, D.M., Griffith, G.W., Gueidan, C., Hawksworth, D.L., Hestmark, G., Hosaka, K., Humber, R.A., Hyde, K.D., Ironside, J.E., Koljag, U., Kurtzman, C.P., Larsson, K.-H., Lichtwardt, R., Longcore, J., Miadlikowska, J., Miller, A., Moncalvo, J.-M., Mozley-Standridge, S., Oberwinkler, F., Parmasto, E., Reeb, V., Rogers, J.D., Roux, C., Ryvarden, L., Sampaio, J.P., Schußler, A., Sugiyama, J., Thorn, R.G., Tibell, L., Untereiner, W.A., Walker, C., Wang, Z., Weir, A., Weiss, M., White, M.M., Winka, K., Yao, Y.-J., and Zhang, N. 2007. A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi. Mycological Research 111: 509-547.
Sung, G.-H., Hywel-Jones, N.L., Sung, J.-M., Luangsa-ard, J.J., Shrestha, B. and J.W. Spatafora. 2007. Phylogenetic classification of Cordyceps and the clavicipitaceous fungi. Studies in Mycology 57: 5-59.
Spatafora, J.W., G.-H. Sung, N.L. Hywel-Jones, J.-M. Sung and J.F. White. 2007. Phylogenetic evidence for an animal pathogen origin of ergot and the grass endophytes. Molecular Ecology 16: 1701-1171.
Schoch, C.L., Sung, G.-H., Volkmann-Kohlmeyer, B., Kohlmeyer, J. and Spatafora, J.W. 2007. Novel marine fungal lineages in the Hypocreomycetidae. Mycological Research 111: 154-162.
Blackwell, M., D.S. Hibbett, J.W. Taylor, and J.W. Spatafora. 2006. Research Coordination Networks: A Phylogeny for Kingdom Fungi (Deep Hypha). Mycologia 98: 829-837.
Wang Z., Johnston P.R., Takamatsu S., Spatafora J.W. and Hibbett D.S. 2006. Phylogenetic classification of the Leotiomycetes based on rDNA data. Mycologia 98: 1067-1077.
Schoch, C.L., Shoemaker, R.A., Seifert, K.A., Hambleton, S., Spatafora, J.W., Crous, P.W. 2006. A multigene phylogeny of the Dothideomycetes using four nuclear loci. Mycologia 1043-1054.
Hosaka, K., Bates, S.T., Beever, R.E., Castellano, M.A., Colgan, W. III, Domínguez, L.S., Nouhra, E.R., Geml, J., Giachini, A.J., Kenney, S.R., Simpson, N.B., Spatafora, J.W., and Trappe, J.M. 2006. Molecular phylogenetics of the gomphoid-phalloid fungi with an establishment of the new subclass Phallomycetidae and two new orders. Mycologia 98: 949-959.
Spatafora, J.W., Johnson, D., Sung, G.-H., Hosaka, K., O'Rourke, B., Serdani, M., Spotts, R., Lutzoni, F., Hofstetter, V., Fraker, E., Gueidan, C., Miadlikowska, J., Reeb , V., Lumbsch, T., Lücking, R., Schmitt, I., Aptroot, A., Roux, C., Miller, A., Geiser, D., Hafellner, J., Hestmark, G., Arnold, A.E., Büdel, B., Rauhut, A., Hewitt, D., Untereiner, W., Cole, M.S., Scheidegger, C., Schultz, M., Sipman., H. and Schoch, C. 2006. A five-gene phylogenetic analysis of the Pezizomycotina. Mycologia 98: 1020-1030.
James, T.Y., Kauff, F., Schoch, C., Matheny, P.B., Hofstetter, V., Cox, C.J., Celio , G. , Gueidan , C. , Fraker, E., Miadlikowska , J. , Lumbsch, H.T., Rauhut, A., Reeb, V., Arnold , A.E. , Amtoft , A. , Stajich, J.E., Hosaka , K. , Sung, G.-H., Johnson , D. , O'Rourke , B. , Crockett , M. , Binder , M. , Curtis , J.M. , Slot , J.C. , Wang , Z. , Wilson, A.W., Schußler , A. , Longcore , J.E. , O'Donnell , K. , Mozley-Standridge , S. , Porter , D. , Letcher , P.M. , Powell, M.J., Taylor, J.W., White, M.M., Griffith , G.W. , Davies , D.R. , Humber , R.A. , Morton, J.B., Sugiyama , J. , Rossman , A.Y. , Rogers , J.D. , Pfister , D.H. , Hewitt , D. , Hansen , K. , Hambleton , S. , Shoemaker , R.A. , Kohlmeyer , J. , Volkmann-Kohlmeyer , B. , Spotts , R.A. , Serdani , M. , Crous , P.W. , Hughes , K.W. , Matsuura , K. , Langer , E. , Langer , G. , Untereiner , W.A. , Lucking , R. , Budel , B. , Geiser , D.M. , Aptroot , A. , Diederich , P. , Schmitt , I. , Schultz , M. , Yahr , R. , Hibbett , D.S. , Lutzoni , F. , McLaughlin , D.J. , Spatafora , J.W. and Vilgalys , R. 2006. Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny. Nature 443: 818-822 .
Wang, Z., Binder, M., Schoch, C., Johnston , P.R., Spatafora, J.W., and Hibbett, D.S. 2006. Evolution of helotialean fungi (Leotiomycetes, Pezizomycotina): a nuclear rDNA phylogeny. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 41: 295-312.
Robbertse, B., J. Reeves, C. Schoch, and J.W. Spatafora. 2006. A phylogenomic analysis of the Ascomycota. Fungal Genetics and Biology 43: 715-725.
Dunn, S.R., W.S. Phillips, J.W. Spatafora, D.R. Green and V.M. Weis. 2006. Highly conserved caspase and Bcl-2 homologues from the sea anemone Aiptasia pallida : Lower metazoans as models for the study of apoptosis evolution. Journal of Molecular Evolution 63: 95-107.
Schoch, C., J. Kohlmeyer, B. Volkmann-Kohlmeer, C.K.M. Tsui and J.W. Spatafora. 2006. Glomeroblus gelineus is a member of the Ostropales. Mycological Research 110: 257-263.
