Biology & Life Sciences

Slice of PLOS: A Fungus Among Us: Highlighting new research in mycology for UK Fungus Day

Published May 16, 2017 Curated Collections

Fungi are incredibly varied and diverse, and perform many crucial ecosystem services. This collection highlights papers from across the PLOS journals that explain the science behind the fungus among us.

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PLOS Biologue Slice of PLOS: A Fungus Among Us | PLOS Biologue
September 30, 2016 Lauren Richardson
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10.1371/journal.pone.0155745

PLOS ONE Spread of Amphibian Chytrid Fungus across Lowland Populations of Túngara Frogs in Panamá
May 13, 2016 Sofía Rodríguez-Brenes, David Rodriguez, Roberto Ibáñez, Michael J. Ryan
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10.1371/journal.pone.0145841

PLOS ONE Assessing the Threat of Amphibian Chytrid Fungus in the Albertine Rift: Past, Present and Future
December 28, 2015 Tracie A. Seimon, Samuel Ayebare, Robert Sekisambu, Emmanuel Muhindo, Guillain Mitamba, Eli Greenbaum, Michele Menegon, Fabio Pupin, Denise McAloose, Alyssa Ammazzalorso, Danny Meirte, Wilbur Lukwago, Mathias Behangana, Anton Seimon, Andrew J. Plumptre
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005197

PLOS Pathogens Worse Comes to Worst: Bananas and Panama Disease—When Plant and Pathogen Clones Meet
November 19, 2015 Nadia Ordonez, Michael F. Seidl, Cees Waalwijk, André Drenth, Andrzej Kilian, Bart P. H. J. Thomma, Randy C. Ploetz, Gert H. J. Kema
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1005904

PLOS Genetics Comparative Genomics of the Sigatoka Disease Complex on Banana Suggests a Link between Parallel Evolutionary Changes in Pseudocercospora fijiensis and Pseudocercospora eumusae and Increased Virulence on the Banana Host
August 11, 2016 Ti-Cheng Chang, Anthony Salvucci, Pedro W. Crous, Ioannis Stergiopoulos
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1005876

PLOS Genetics Combating a Global Threat to a Clonal Crop: Banana Black Sigatoka Pathogen Pseudocercospora fijiensis (Synonym Mycosphaerella fijiensis) Genomes Reveal Clues for Disease Control
August 11, 2016 Rafael E. Arango Isaza, Caucasella Diaz-Trujillo, Braham Dhillon, Andrea Aerts, Jean Carlier, Charles F. Crane, Tristan V. de Jong, Ineke de Vries, Robert Dietrich, Andrew D. Farmer, Claudia Fortes Fereira, Suzana Garcia, Mauricio Guzman, Richard C. Hamelin, Erika A. Lindquist, Rahim Mehrabi, Olman Quiros, Jeremy Schmutz, Harris Shapiro, Elizabeth Reynolds, Gabriel Scalliet, Manoel Souza Jr., Ioannis Stergiopoulos, Theo A. J. Van der Lee, Pierre J. G. M. De Wit, Marie-Françoise Zapater, Lute-Harm Zwiers, Igor V. Grigoriev, Stephen B. Goodwin, Gert H. J. Kema
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005715

PLOS Pathogens Metarhizium brunneum Blastospore Pathogenesis in Aedes aegypti Larvae: Attack on Several Fronts Accelerates Mortality
July 7, 2016 Abeer M. Alkhaibari, Aline T. Carolino, Sare I. Yavasoglu, Thierry Maffeis, Thalles C. Mattoso, James C. Bull, Richard I. Samuels, Tariq M. Butt
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10.1371/journal.pone.0154267

PLOS ONE Characterization of Five Novel Mitoviruses in the White Pine Blister Rust Fungus Cronartium ribicola
May 19, 2016 Jun-Jun Liu, Danelle Chan, Yu Xiang, Holly Williams, Xiao-Rui Li, Richard A. Sniezko, Rona N. Sturrock
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10.1371/journal.pone.0120703

PLOS ONE Host Phenology and Geography as Drivers of Differentiation in Generalist Fungal Mycoparasites
March 24, 2015 Alexandra Pintye, Jeanne Ropars, Nick Harvey, Hyeon-Dong Shin, Christel Leyronas, Philippe C. Nicot, Levente Kiss, Tatiana Giraud
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10.3390/agronomy5040587

Agronomy Agronomy | Free Full-Text | Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in the Nitrogen Uptake of Plants: Current Knowledge and Research Gaps
December 16, 2015 Heike Bücking and Arjun Kafle
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1005614

PLOS Genetics Genus-Wide Comparative Genomics of Malassezia Delineates Its Phylogeny, Physiology, and Niche Adaptation on Human Skin
November 5, 2015 Guangxi Wu, He Zhao, Chenhao Li, Menaka Priyadarsani Rajapakse, Wing Cheong Wong, Jun Xu, Charles W. Saunders, Nancy L. Reeder, Raymond A. Reilman, Annika Scheynius, Sheng Sun, Blake Robert Billmyre, Wenjun Li, Anna Floyd Averette, Piotr Mieczkowski, Joseph Heitman, Bart Theelen, Markus S. Schröder, Paola Florez De Sessions, Geraldine Butler, Sebastian Maurer-Stroh, Teun Boekhout, Niranjan Nagarajan, Thomas L. Dawson Jr.
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10.1371/journal.pone.0137689

PLOS ONE New Fungus-Insect Symbiosis: Culturing, Molecular, and Histological Methods Determine Saprophytic Polyporales Mutualists of Ambrosiodmus Ambrosia Beetles
September 14, 2015 Li You, David Rabern Simmons, Craig C. Bateman, Dylan P. G. Short, Matthew T. Kasson, Robert J. Rabaglia, Jiri Hulcr
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10.1371/journal.pone.0095266

PLOS ONE Novel Symbiotic Protoplasts Formed by Endophytic Fungi Explain Their Hidden Existence, Lifestyle Switching, and Diversity within the Plant Kingdom
April 28, 2014 Peter R. Atsatt, Matthew D. Whiteside
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1002431

PLOS Biology Characterization of Greenbeard Genes Involved in Long-Distance Kind Discrimination in a Microbial Eukaryote
April 14, 2016 Jens Heller, Jiuhai Zhao, Gabriel Rosenfield, David J. Kowbel, Pierre Gladieux, N. Louise Glass
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10.7554/eLife.09492

eLife Punctuated evolution and transitional hybrid network in an ancestral cell cycle of fungi | eLife
May 10, 2016 Edgar M Medina Jonathan J Turner Raluca Gordân Jan M Skotheim Nicolas E Buchler