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. Matthew E Smith and Terry W Henkel and M Catherine Aime and Alex K Fremier and Rytas Vilgalys, Ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity and community structure on three co-occurring leguminous canopy tree species in a Neotropical rainforest, New Phytol, vol. 192 no. 3 (November, 2011), pp. 699--712 [entrez], [doi]  [abs].
  2. Gregory Bonito and Timothy Brenneman and Rytas Vilgalys, Ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity in orchards of cultivated pecan (Carya illinoinensis; Juglandaceae), Mycorrhiza, vol. 21 no. 7 (October, 2011), pp. 601--612 [doi] .
  3. Carolyn F Weber and Donald R Zak and Bruce A Hungate and Robert B Jackson and Rytas Vilgalys and R David Evans and Christopher W Schadt and J Patrick Megonigal and Cheryl R Kuske, Responses of soil cellulolytic fungal communities to elevated atmospheric CO(2) are complex and variable across five ecosystems, Environmental microbiology, vol. 13 no. 10 (October, 2011), pp. 2778--2793 [abstract], [doi]  [abs].
  4. Neil R Gottel and Hector F Castro and Marilyn Kerley and Zamin Yang and Dale A Pelletier and Mircea Podar and Tatiana Karpinets and Ed Uberbacher and Gerald A Tuskan and Rytas Vilgalys and Mitchel J Doktycz and Christopher W Schadt, Distinct microbial communities within the endosphere and rhizosphere of Populus deltoides roots across contrasting soil types, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 77 no. 17 (September, 2011), pp. 5934--44 [5934], [doi]  [abs].
  5. T Y Baroni and V Hofstetter and D L Largent and R Vilgalys, Entocybe is proposed as a new genus in the Entolomataceae (Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota) based on morphological and molecular evidence, North American Fungi, vol. 6 (September, 2011), pp. 1--19 .

Curriculum Vitae

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