Rytas J Vilgalys, Professor  

Rytas J Vilgalys

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)

  1. WH Hartman, CJ Richardson, R Vilgalys, GL Bruland, Environmental and anthropogenic controls over bacterial communities in wetland soils., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, United States, vol. 105 no. 46 (November, 2008), pp. 17842-7  [abs].
  2. TM Porter, CW Schadt, L Rizvi, AP Martin, SK Schmidt, L Scott-Denton, R Vilgalys, JM Moncalvo, Widespread occurrence and phylogenetic placement of a soil clone group adds a prominent new branch to the fungal tree of life., Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, United States, vol. 46 no. 2 (February, 2008), pp. 635-44  [abs].
  3. DS Hibbett, M Binder, JF Bischoff, M Blackwell, PF Cannon, OE Eriksson, S Huhndorf, T James, PM Kirk, R Lücking, H Thorsten Lumbsch, F Lutzoni, PB Matheny, DJ McLaughlin, MJ Powell, S Redhead, CL Schoch, JW Spatafora, JA Stalpers, R Vilgalys, MC Aime, A Aptroot, R Bauer, D Begerow, GL Benny, LA Castlebury, PW Crous, YC Dai, W Gams, DM Geiser, GW Griffith, C Gueidan, DL Hawksworth, G Hestmark, K Hosaka, RA Humber, KD Hyde, JE Ironside, U Kõljalg, CP Kurtzman, KH Larsson, R Lichtwardt, J Longcore, J Miadlikowska, A Miller, JM Moncalvo, S Mozley-Standridge, F Oberwinkler, E Parmasto, V Reeb, JD Rogers, C Roux, L Ryvarden, JP Sampaio, A Schüssler, J Sugiyama, RG Thorn, L Tibell, WA Untereiner, C Walker, Z Wang, A Weir, M Weiss, MM White, K Winka, YJ Yao, N Zhang, A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi., Mycological research, England, vol. 111 no. Pt 5 (May, 2007), pp. 509-47  [abs].
  4. Idnurm, A., T. Y. James, and R. Vilgalys, Sex in the rest: mysterious mating in the Chytridiomycota and Zygomycota, in Sex in fungi: molecular determination and evolutionary implications, edited by Joe Heitman, Jim Kronstad, John Taylor, and Lorna Casselton eds (2007), ASM Press, Washington, D.C. .
  5. Henk DA, Vilgalys R, Molecular phylogeny suggests a single origin of insect symbiosis in the Pucciniomycetes with support for some relationships within the genus Septobasidium, American Journal of Botany, vol. 94 (2007), pp. 1515-1526 .

Curriculum Vitae

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