Rytas Vilgalys, Professor
Education:
PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985
MS Botany, Virginia Tech, 1982
BA Botany, State University of New York College at Geneseo, 1978
Office Location: BioSci: 346
Office Phone: 919-660-7361, 660-7362
Email Address: fungi@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.biology.duke.edu/fungi/mycolab/
Specialties:
Evolution
Genetics
Systematics
Research Categories: Phylogenetic systematics and molecular evolution in fungi
Research Description:
Recent Publications (More Publications) (search)
- Henkel TW, Husbands D, Bonito GM, Vilgalys R, Smith ME, New species of Xerocomus (Boletales) from the Guiana Shield, with notes on their mycorrhizal status and fruiting occurrence, Mycologia, vol. in press (2012) [abs].
- Hersh, M., James Clark, Rytas Vilgalys, Evaluating the impacts of multiple generalist fungal pathogens on temperate tree seedling survival., Ecology, vol. 93 (2012), pp. 511–520 [abs].
- Bonito, Gregory, Matthew E. Smith, Michael Nowak, Rosanne A. Healy, Gonzalo Guevara, ,Efren Cázares, Akihiko Kinoshita, Eduardo R. Nouhra, Laura S. Domínguez, Leho Tedersoo, Claude Murat, Yun Wang, Baldomero, Arroyo Moreno, Donald H. Pfister, Kazuhide Nara, Alessandra Zambonelli, James M. Trappe, Rytas Vilgalys, Historical biogeography and diversification of truffles in the Tuberaceae and their newly identified Southern hemisphere sister lineage, PLOS ONE (in press) (2012) [abs].
- Husbands, Dillon R., Terry W. Henkel, Gregory Bonito, Rytas Vilgalys, and Matthew E. Smith, New species of Xerocomus (Boletales) from the Guiana Shield, with notes on their mycorrhizal status and fruiting occurrence, Mycologia (2012) [abs].
- Porter, T. M., M. Rodriguez, B. Robbertse, R. Yoder, P. M. Letcher, J. E. Longcore, J. W. Spatafora, and R. Vilgalys, Chytrid transcriptome pyrosequencing: application to phylogenetic systematics, submitted to Mol. Phylog. Evol. (2012) [abs].
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