Rytas J Vilgalys
Professor

919-660-7361, 660-7362

346/345 Bio Sci

Mycology Lab

Research Interests: Phylogenetic systematics and molecular evolution in fungi

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. 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., Mol Phylogenet Evol (October, 2007)  [abs].
2. 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].
3. 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. .
4. 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 .
5. JL Parrent, R Vilgalys, Biomass and compositional responses of ectomycorrhizal fungal hyphae to elevated CO2 and nitrogen fertilization., The New phytologist, England, vol. 176 no. 1 (2007), pp. 164-74  [abs].