François M Lutzoni
Associate Professor

919 660 7261

357 Bio Sci

François Lutzoni's lab page

Research Interests: Evolution of symbiotic interactions

Representative Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. Arnold, A. E. and Lutzoni F., Diversity and host range of foliar fungal endophytes: Are tropical leaves biodiversity hotspots?, Ecology, vol. 88 (2007), pp. 541-549 .
2. Kauff, F., Cox, C., and Lutzoni, F., WASABI: An Automated Sequence Processing System for Multi-Gene Phylogenies, Systematic Biology, vol. 56 (2007), pp. 523-531 .
3. Reeb, V., Haugen, P., Bhattacharya, D. and Lutzoni, F., Evolution of Pleopsidium (lichenized Ascomycota) S943 group I introns and the phylogeography of an intron-encoded putative homing endonuclease, Journal of Molecular Evolution, vol. 64 (2007), pp. 285-298 .
4. Gueidan, C., Roux, C., and Lutzoni, F., Using a multigene analysis to assess generic delineation and character evolution in the Verrucariaceae (Verrucariales, Ascomycota)., Mycological Research, vol. 110 (2007), pp. 1147-1170 .
5. Rydholm, C., Dyer, P. S., and Lutzoni, F., DNA sequence characterization and molecular evolution of MAT1 and MAT2 mating-type loci of the self-compatible ascomycete mold Neosartorya fischeri., Eukaryotic Cell, vol. 6 (2007), pp. 868-874 .
6. Higgins, K. L., Arnold, A. E., Miadlikowska, J. M., Sarvate, S. D., and Lutzoni, F., Phylogenetic relationships, host affinity, and geographic structure of boreal and arctic endophytes from three major plant lineages, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol. 42 (2007), pp. 543-555 .
7. Arnold, A. E., Henk, D. A., Eells, R. L., Lutzoni, F. and Vilgalys, R., Diversity and phylogenic affinities of foliar fungal endophytes in loblolly pine inferred by culturing and environmental PCR, Mycologia, vol. 99 (2007), pp. 185-206 .
8. Hofstetter, V., Miadlikowska, J., Kauff, F., and Lutzoni, F., Phylogenetic comparison of protein-coding versus ribosomal RNA-coding sequence data: A case study of the Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota)., Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol. 44 (2007), pp. 412-426 .
9. Hibbett, D. S., Binder, M., Bischoff, J. F., Blackwell, M., Cannon, P. F., Eriksson, O., Huhndorf, S., James, T., Kirk, P. M., Lücking, R., Lumbsch, T., Lutzoni, F., 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., Koljalg, U., Kurtzman, C. P., Larsson, K.-H., Lichtward, R., Longcore, J., Miadlikowska, J., Miller, A., Monclavo, J.-M., Mozley-Standridge, S., Oberwinkler, F., Parmasto, E., Reeb, V., Rogers, J. D., Roux, C., Ryvarden, L., Sampaio, J. P., Schuessler, A., Sugiyama, J., Thorn, R. G., Tibell, L., Untereiner, W. A., Walker, C., Wang, Z., Weir, A., Weiss, M., White, M., Winka, K., Yao, Y.-J., Zhang, N., A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi, Mycological Research, vol. 111 (2007), pp. 509-547 .
10. Litaker, R. W., Vandersea, M. W., Kibler, S. R., Reece, K. S., Stokes, N. A., Lutzoni, F. M., Yonish, B. A., West, M. A., Black, M. N. D., and Tester, P. A., Recognizing dinoglagellate species using ITS rDNA sequences, Journal of Phycology, vol. 43 (2007), pp. 344-355 .
11. Rydholm, C., Szakacs, G., and Lutzoni, F., Low genetic variation and no detectable population structure in Aspergillus fumigatus compared to the closely related Neosartorya species, Eukaryotic Cell, vol. 5 (2006), pp. 650-657 .
12. Taylor, J. W., Spatafora, J., O’Donnell, K., Lutzoni, F., James, T., Hibbett, D. S., Geiser, D., Bruns, T. D. and Blackwell, M., The Fungi, in Assembling the Tree of Life, edited by J. Cracraft and M. J. Donoghue (2004), pp. 171-194, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK .
13. James, T. Y., Kauff, F., Schoch, C., Matheny, P. B., Hofstetter, V., Cox, C. J., Celio, G., Gueidan, C., Fraker, E., Miadlikowska, J., Lumbsch, T., Rauhut, A., Reeb, V., Arnold, A. E., Amtoft, A., Stajich, J. E., Hosaka, K., Sung, G.-H., Johnson, D., O’Rourke, B., Binder, M., Curtis, J. M., Slot, J. C., Wang, Z., Wilson, A. W., Schüßler, 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., 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., Lücking, R., Büdel, B., Geiser, D. M., Aptroot, A., Buck, W. R., Cole, M. S., Diederich, P., Printzen, C., Schmitt, I., Schultz, M., Yahr, R., Zavarzin, A., Hibbett, D. H., Lutzoni, F., McLaughlin, D. J., Spatafora, J. W., Vilgalys, R., Reconstructing the early evolution of the Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny, Nature, vol. 443 (2006), pp. 818-822 .
14. Miadlikowska, J., Kauff, F., Hofstetter, V., Fraker, E., Grube, M., Hafellner, J., Reeb, V., Hodkinson, B. P., Kukwa, M., Lücking, R., Hestmark, G., Otalora, M. A. G., Rauhut, A., Büdel, B., Scheidegger, C., Timdal, I., Stenroos, S., Brodo, I., Perlmutter, G., Ertz, D., Diederich, P., Lendemer, J. C., Tripp, E., Yahr, R., May, P., Gueidan, C., Arnold, A. E., Robertson, C., and Lutzoni, F., New insights into classification and evolution of the Lecanoromycetes (Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota) from phylogenetic analyses of three ribosomal RNA- and two protein-coding genes, Mycologia, vol. 98 (2006), pp. 1090-1103 .
15. Bhattacharya, D., Reeb, V., Simon, D., and Lutzoni, F., Phylogenetic analyses suggest reverse splicing spread of group I introns in fungal ribosomal DNA, BMC Evolutionary Biology, vol. 5 no. 68 (2005) .
16. Paoletti, M., Rydholm, C., Schwier, E., Anderson, M. J., Szakacs, G., Lutzoni, F., Debeaupuis, J.-P, Latgé, J.-P., Denning, D. W., Dyer, P. S., Evidence for sexuality in the opportunistic fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus., Current Biology, vol. 15 (2005), pp. 1242-1248 .
17. O’Brien, H., Miadlikowska, J., and Lutzoni, F., Assessing host specialization in symbiotic Cyanobacteria associated with four closely related species of the lichen fungus Peltigera, European Journal of Phycology, vol. 40 (2005), pp. 363-378 .
18. Pagel, M. and Lutzoni, F., Accounting for phylogenetic uncertainty in comparative studies of evolution and adaptation, in Biological Evolution and Statistical Physics, edited by M. Laessig and A. Valleriani (2002), pp. 151-164, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany .
19. Miadlikowska, J. and Lutzoni, F., Phylogenetic classification of peltigeralean fungi (Peltigerales, Ascomycota) based on ribosomal RNA small and large subunits, American Journal of Botany, vol. 91 (2004), pp. 449-464 .
20. Haugen, P., Reeb, V., Lutzoni, F., Bhattacharya, D., The evolution of homing endonuclease genes and group I introns in nuclear rDNA., Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 21 (2004), pp. 105-116 .
21. Reeb, V., Lutzoni, F., and Roux, C, Contribution of RPB2 to multilocus phylogenetic studies of the Pezizomycotina (euascomycetes, Fungi) with special emphasis on the lichen-forming Acarosporaceae and evolution of polyspory, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol. 32 (2004), pp. 1036-1060 .
22. Lutzoni, F., Kauff, F., Cox, C., McLaughlin, D., Celio, G., Dentinger, B., Padamsee, M., Hibbett, D., James, T., Baloch, E., Grube, M., Reeb, V., Hofstetter, V., Shcoch, C., Arnold, A. E., Miadlikowska, J., Spatafora, J., Johnson, D., Hambleton, S., et al, Assembling the fungal tree of life: Progress, classification, and evolution of subcellular traits, American Journal of Botany, vol. 91 (2004), pp. 1446-1480 .
23. Alfaro, M, Zoller, S, and Lutzoni, F., Bayes or bootstrap? A simulation study comparing the performance of Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling and bootstrapping in assessing phylogenetic confidence, Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 20 (2003), pp. 255-266 .
24. Miadlikowska, J., Lutzoni, F., Goward, T., Zoller, S. and Posada, D., New approach to an old problem: Incorporating signal from gap-rich regions of ITS and nrDNA large subunit into phylogenetic analyses to resolve the Peltigera canina species complex, Mycologia, vol. 95 (2003), pp. 1181-1203 .
25. Barker, F.K. and Lutzoni, F., The utility of the incongruence length difference test., Systematic Biology, vol. 51 (2002), pp. 625-637 .
26. F.M. Lutzoni, M. Pagel, and V. Reeb, Major fungal lineages are derived from lichen symbiotic ancestors, Nature, vol. 411 (2001), pp. 937-940 .
27. F.M. Lutzoni, Wagner, P., Reeb, V., and Zoller, S., Integrating ambiguously aligned regions of DNA sequences in phylogenetic analyses without violating positional homology, Systematic Biology, vol. 49 (2000), pp. 628-651 .
28. Bhattacharya, D., Lutzoni, F., Reeb, V., Simon, D., Nason, J., Fernandez, F., Widespread occurrence of spliceosomal introns in the rDNA genes of ascomycetes, Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 17 (2000), pp. 1971-1984 .
29. Zoller, S., Lutzoni F., and Scheidegger, C., Genetic variability within and among populations of the threatened foliose lichen Lobaria pulmonaria (L.), Molecular Ecology, vol. 8 (1999), pp. 2049-2060, Hoffm. in Switzerland. .
30. Lutzoni, F., and Pagel, M, Accelerated evolution as a consequence of transitions to mutualism, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, vol. 94 (1997), pp. 11422-11427 .