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Meredith Blackwell's Degrees
- PhD Botany University of Texas at Austin
- Masters Botany University of Texas at Austin
- Bachelors Biology University of Texas at Austin
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Meredith May Blackwell is an American mycologist, known as one of the world's leading experts on fungi associated with arthropods. Education and career Meredith Blackwell graduated in 1961 with B.S. in biology from the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette and in 1963 with M.S. in biology from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. She graduated in 1973 with Ph.D. in botany from the University of Texas at Austin with thesis "A Developmental and Taxonomic Study of Protophysarum phloiogenum" under the supervision of C. J. Alexopoulos.
Meredith Blackwell's Published Works
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- A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi. (2007) (2102)
- The fungi: 1, 2, 3 ... 5.1 million species? (2011) (1092)
- The Fungi (2009) (707)
- The Ascomycota tree of life: a phylum-wide phylogeny clarifies the origin and evolution of fundamental reproductive and ecological traits. (2009) (590)
- Fungal entomopathogens: new insights on their ecology (2009) (516)
- The beetle gut: a hyperdiverse source of novel yeasts. (2005) (266)
- Comparative genomics of biotechnologically important yeasts (2016) (257)
- Ecology and evolution of mycophagous bark beetles and their fungal partners. (2005) (228)
- Phylogenetic Distribution of Fungal Sterols (2010) (227)
- Insect-Fungal Associations: Ecology and Evolution (2005) (213)
- Preserving accuracy in GenBank (2008) (191)
- Wood ingestion by passalid beetles in the presence of xylose‐fermenting gut yeasts (2003) (186)
- MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS OF UNITUNICATE PERITHECIAL ASCOMYCETES: THE CLAVICIPITALES-HYPOCREALES CONNECTION (1993) (168)
- The Fungal Tree of Life: from Molecular Systematics to Genome-Scale Phylogenies. (2017) (163)
- The polyphyletic origins of ophiostomatoid fungi (1994) (163)
- Morphological and ecological similarities: wood-boring beetles associated with novel xylose-fermenting yeasts, Spathaspora passalidarum gen. sp. nov. and Candida jeffriesii sp. nov. (2006) (158)
- Fungus-insect relationships. Perspectives in ecology and evolution. (1984) (155)
- Insect symbiosis: derivation of yeast-like endosymbionts within an entomopathogenic filamentous lineage. (2001) (121)
- Research Coordination Networks: a phylogeny for kingdom Fungi (Deep Hypha) (2006) (112)
- The role of yeasts as insect endosymbionts. (2005) (110)
- Phylogenetics of Saccharomycetales, the ascomycete yeasts. (2006) (108)
- Chapter 6 – Fungal Entomopathogens (2012) (104)
- Three new beetle-associated yeast species in the Pichia guilliermondii clade. (2004) (94)
- Ecology and evolution of fungal endophytes and their roles against insects. (2005) (91)
- Expansion of the Candida tanzawaensis yeast clade: 16 novel Candida species from basidiocarp-feeding beetles. (2004) (89)
- Five novel Candida species in insect-associated yeast clades isolated from Neuroptera and other insects. (2007) (89)
- Convergent Origins of Ambrosia Fungi (1996) (89)
- Molecular phylogeny of the cleistothecial fungi placed in Cephalothecaceae and Pseudeurotiaceae (1999) (86)
- A Group I Intron in the Nuclear Small Subunit rRNA Gene of Cryptendoxyla hypophloia, an Ascomycetous Fungus: Evidence for a New Major Class of Group I Introns (1999) (84)
- Yeasts isolated from plant-associated beetles and other insects: seven novel Candida species near Candida albicans. (2008) (80)
- Minute mycological mysteries: the influence of arthropods on the lives of fungi (1994) (78)
- Molecular phylogeny of dogwood anthracnose fungus (Discula destructiva) and the Diaporthales (2001) (77)
- Compartmentalized microbial composition, oxygen gradients and nitrogen fixation in the gut of Odontotaenius disjunctus (2013) (73)
- Convergent coevolution in the domestication of coral mushrooms by fungus–growing ants (2004) (71)
- Metschnikowia chrysoperlae sp. nov., Candida picachoensis sp. nov. and Candida pimensis sp. nov., isolated from the green lacewings Chrysoperla comanche and Chrysoperla carnea (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). (2004) (70)
- Terrestrial Life--Fungal from the Start? (2000) (67)
- Phylogenetics of the insect pathogenic genus Beauveria. (2005) (62)
- Nine new Candida species near C. membranifaciens isolated from insects. (2005) (59)
- Microorganisms in the gut of beetles: evidence from molecular cloning. (2003) (59)
- Communities of microbes that inhabit the changing hindgut landscape of a subsocial beetle. (2006) (57)
- The gut of Guatemalan passalid beetles: a habitat colonized by cellobiose- and xylose-fermenting yeasts (2013) (56)
- Research Coordination Networks: a phylogeny for kingdom Fungi (Deep Hypha). (2006) (54)
- Phylogeography of Metarhizium, an insect pathogenic fungus. (2005) (53)
- Hyperphoretic Dispersal of a Pyxidiophora Anamorph (1986) (52)
- Multilocus Phylogenetic Study of the Scheffersomyces Yeast Clade and Characterization of the N-Terminal Region of Xylose Reductase Gene (2012) (52)
- Reciprocal illumination: a comparison of agriculture in humans and in fungus-growing ants. (2005) (52)
- Phylogenetic analysis of ambrosial species in the genus Raffaelea based on 18S rDNA sequences (1998) (51)
- Metschnikowia noctiluminum sp. nov., Metschnikowia corniflorae sp. nov., and Candida chrysomelidarum sp. nov., isolated from green lacewings and beetles. (2006) (50)
- Gut anatomical properties and microbial functional assembly promote lignocellulose deconstruction and colony subsistence of a wood-feeding beetle (2019) (50)
- Molecular phylogeny of Melanospora and similar pyrenomycetous fungi (2002) (49)
- Phylogenetics of Saccharomycetales, the ascomycete yeasts (2006) (45)
- Pyrenomycetes — Fungi with Perithecia (2001) (43)
- Scheffersomyces cryptocercus: a new xylose-fermenting yeast associated with the gut of wood roaches and new combinations in the Sugiyamaella yeast clade (2013) (42)
- Four new yeasts in the Candida mesenterica clade associated with basidiocarp-feeding beetles. (2005) (42)
- Comparison of the Bacterial Symbiont Composition of the Formosan Subterranean Termite from its Native and Introduced Range (2010) (42)
- Molecular data support the Laboulbeniales as a separate class of Ascomycota , Laboulbeniomycetes (2001) (42)
- A yeast clade near Candida kruisii uncovered: nine novel Candida species associated with basidioma-feeding beetles. (2006) (41)
- Made for Each Other: Ascomycete Yeasts and Insects. (2017) (40)
- Phylogeny of asexual fungi associated with bark and ambrosia beetles (2001) (39)
- Fungal biotrophic parasites of insects and other arthropods. (2005) (38)
- Trichosporon insectorum sp. nov., a new anamorphic basidiomycetous killer yeast. (2008) (37)
- Didymium eremophilum: A New Myxomycete from the Sonoran Desert (1980) (36)
- The status and characterization of Enteroramus dimorphus: a xylose-fermenting yeast attached to the gut of beetles (2004) (36)
- Polyphyletic origins of yeast-like endocytobionts from anobiid and cerambycid beetles (1999) (35)
- Fungal evolution and taxonomy (2010) (35)
- Taxonomic diversity and interactions of insect-associated ascomycetes (1997) (34)
- Biogeography of fungal ectoparasites of termites (1986) (33)
- Pyxidiophora: life histories and arthropod associations of two species (1989) (32)
- Marchandiobasidium aurantiacum gen. sp. nov., the teleomorph of Marchandiomyces aurantiacus (Basidiomycota, ceratobasidiales). (2003) (31)
- Cladistic Analysis of Partial ssrDNA Sequences among Unitunicate Perithecial Ascomycetes and Its Implications on the Evolution of Centrum Development (1994) (30)
- Extraction and PCR amplification of DNA from minute ectoparasitic fungi (2001) (30)
- The Yeasts, A Taxonomic Study, fourth edition, by C.P. Kurtzman and J.W. Fell (2001) (29)
- SIMILARITY OF AMPHOROMORPHA AND SECONDARY CAPILLICONIDIA OF BASIDIOBOLUS (1989) (29)
- Laboulbeniopsis termitarius, an ectoparasite of termites newly recognized as a member of the Laboulbeniomycetes (2003) (28)
- A NEW SPECIES OF PYXIDIOPHORA AND ITS THAXTERIOLA ANAMORPH (1986) (28)
- Ribosomal DNA sequence analysis places the yeast-like genus Symbiotaphrina within filamentous ascomycetes (1996) (27)
- Evolutionary dynamics of the mutualistic symbiosis between fungus-growing termites and Termitomyces fungi. (2005) (27)
- Orbilia ultrastructure, character evolution and phylogeny of Pezizomycotina (2012) (27)
- Population structure of dogwood anthracnose fungus. (2002) (26)
- Laboulbeniomycetes: Evolution, natural history, and Thaxter’s final word (2020) (25)
- 18 – INSECT- AND OTHER ARTHROPOD-ASSOCIATED FUNGI (2004) (25)
- The beetle gut as a habitat for new species of yeasts. (2005) (24)
- Lives within lives: Hidden fungal biodiversity and the importance of conservation (2018) (24)
- Incidence, Host Specificity, Distribution, and Morphological Variation in Arthrorhynchus Nycteribiae and A. Eucampsipodae (Laboulbeniomycetes) (1980) (23)
- Wood-decay fungi associated with subterranean termites (Rhinotermitidae) in Louisiana (1987) (23)
- Notes on wood-rotting fungi on junipers in the Gulf Coast region (1985) (23)
- Three new asexual arthroconidial yeasts, Geotrichum carabidarum sp. nov., Geotrichum histeridarum sp. nov., and Geotrichum cucujoidarum sp. nov., isolated from the gut of insects. (2006) (22)
- Ultrastructure of the termite-associated fungus Laboulbeniopsis termitarius. (1976) (22)
- Hormiscioideus Filamentosus Gen. Et Sp. Nov., A Termite-Infesting Fungus From Brazil (1978) (21)
- Taxonomic Studies in the Myxomycetes. IV. Protophysarum Phloiogenum, A New Genus and Species of Physaraceae (1975) (19)
- Yeasts in Insects and Other Invertebrates (2017) (19)
- Molecular phylogenetic study of a termite pathogen Cordycepioideus bisporus (1998) (19)
- Phylogenetic taxon definitions for Fungi, Dikarya, Ascomycota and Basidiomycota (2018) (18)
- Laboulbeniomycetes: Intimate Fungal Associates of Arthropods. (2020) (18)
- Ascospores of Pyxidiophora on mites associated with beetles in trees and wood (1989) (17)
- Distribution and sporulation phenology of myxomycetes in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona (1984) (17)
- Lobosporangium, a new name for Echinosporangium Malloch, and Gamsiella, a new genus for Mortierella multidivaricata (2004) (17)
- Kathistes, a new genus of pleomorphic ascomycetes (1990) (17)
- Description of Teunomyces gen. nov. for the Candida kruisii clade, Suhomyces gen. nov. for the Candida tanzawaensis clade and Suhomyces kilbournensis sp. nov. (2016) (16)
- Five novel Candida species in insect-associated yeast clades isolated from Neuroptera and other insects (2007) (16)
- New records of termite-infesting fungi (1980) (16)
- Some new or unusual corticoid fungi from the Gulf Coast region (1988) (15)
- Developmental Morphology and Taxonomic Characters of Arthrorhynchus Nycteribiae and A. Eucampsipodae (Laboulbeniomycetes) (1980) (14)
- Syspastospora parasitica, a mycoparasite of the fungus Beauveria bassiana attacking the Colorado potato beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata: A tritrophic association. (2004) (14)
- Loberus Impressus (LeConte) (Coleoptera: Erotylidae) Fungal Associations and Presence in the Seed Capsules of Iris Hexagona (2003) (14)
- A developmental study of the termite-associated fungus Coreomycetopsis oedipus. (1976) (14)
- New Information on Cordycepioideus bisporus and Cordycepioideus octosporus (1984) (13)
- LIFE HISTORY AND ARTHROPOD DISPERSAL OF A COPROPHILOUS STYLOPAGE (1991) (13)
- An ontology of fungal subcellular traits. (2011) (13)
- 1 – FUNGI AND THEIR ALLIES (2004) (13)
- Molecular Data Sets and Broad Taxon Sampling in Detecting Morphological Convergence (1994) (13)
- Evolution. Terrestrial life--fungal from the start? (2000) (13)
- Cordycepioideus Octosporus, A Termite Suspected Pathogen from Jalisco, Mexico (1981) (12)
- Quasiconcha reticulata and its anamorph from conifer roots (1985) (11)
- A study of sporophore development in the myxomyceteProtophysarum phloiogenum (2004) (10)
- Trichosporon vanderwaltii sp. nov., an asexual basidiomycetous yeast isolated from soil and beetles (2013) (10)
- Extreme morphological divergence: phylogenetic position of a termite ectoparasite (2003) (9)
- The Suhomyces clade: from single isolate to multiple species to disintegrating sex loci (2018) (9)
- The status of Endomyces scopularum—a filamentous fungus and two yeasts (2001) (9)
- Discovery of a Pyxidiophora with Acariniola-type ascospores (1990) (8)
- Four new yeasts in the Candida mesenterica clade associated with basidiocarp-feeding beetles (2005) (8)
- 9 Subcellular Structure and Biochemical Characters in Fungal Phylogeny (2015) (8)
- Entoderma colletosporium gen. and sp. nov., a unique cuticular fungus infecting Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) (1991) (8)
- Zombie bugs? The fungus Purpureocillium cf. lilacinum may manipulate the behavior of its host bug Edessa rufomarginata (2014) (7)
- A New Species of Licea (Myxomycetes) (1974) (7)
- The fungal roots of microsporidian parasites. (2005) (7)
- A New Genus in the Lophiaceae (1980) (7)
- Collection and storage of fungal and algal samples. (1993) (6)
- Syspastospora parasitica, a mycoparasite of the fungus Beauveria bassiana attacking the Colorado potato beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata: A tritrophic association. (2004) (6)
- Two new basidiomycetes on living live oak in the southeast and Gulf Coast region (1984) (6)
- Fungi in the Environment: Fungi in the hidden environment: the gut of beetles (2007) (6)
- Laboulbeniomycetes, Enigmatic Fungi With a Turbulent Taxonomic History (2021) (6)
- A new species of Inonotus (Aphyllophorales, Hymenochaetaceae) on oak in Louisiana (1985) (6)
- Fungi associated with African earwigs and their relationship to South American forms (1990) (4)
- Survival of myxomycete sclerotia after exposure to high temperature (1984) (4)
- Theleporus ajovalliensis (Aphyllophorales: Corticiaceae), a new wood-rotting fungus on ocotillo in the Sonoran Desert [Arizona, parasite on Fouquieria splendens]. (1982) (4)
- Phylogenetic systematics and ascomycetes (1993) (4)
- Research and teaching with the AFTOL SBD: an informatics resource for fungal subcellular and biochemical data (2013) (4)
- Phylogeny of the Fungal Kingdom and Fungal-like Eukaryotes (2004) (3)
- Rare or rarely collected? Comatricha mirabilis from the desert of Bahrain (2008) (3)
- New combinations, Scheffersomyces amazonensis and S. ergatensis (2013) (3)
- Chapter 68 – Spathaspora N.H. Nguyen, S.-O. Suh & M. Blackwell (2006) (2011) (2)
- Introduction : Seven Wonders of the Insect – Fungus World (2013) (2)
- New Species of Laboulbenia from Termite Hosts in Africa (1986) (2)
- C. J. Alexopoulos: A short history (1988) (1)
- Margaret Elizabeth Barr Bigelow 1923–2008 (2009) (1)
- Social wasps promote social behavior in Saccharomyces spp. (2016) (1)
- Fundamentals of the Fungi@@@Introductory Mycology (1998) (1)
- Robert Lee Gilbertson, 1925–2011 (2012) (1)
- AMENITY HORTICULTURE AND THE USE OF AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS IN ARID ZONE ENVIRONMENTS (1998) (1)
- Incidence, host specificity, distribution and morphological variation in Arthrorhynchus nyctyeribiae and Arthrorhynchus eucampsipodae (Laboulbeniomycetes) [Fungi, parasitic on Nycteribiidae (Diptera) ectoparasites of bats]. (1980) (1)
- Emory Guy Simmons 1920–2013 (2014) (1)
- A Multi-omics Approach to Understand the Microbial Transformation of Lignocellulosic Materials in the Digestive System of the Wood-Feeding Beetle Odontotaenius disjunctus (2015) (0)
- Trichosporon vanderwaltii sp. nov., an asexual basidiomycetous yeast isolated from soil and beetles (2012) (0)
- Henry Carl Aldrich (1941-2005): odyssey of a myxomycetologist. (2007) (0)
- Genomic Evolution of the Ascomycete Yeasts (2015) (0)
- Reviewers for Journal of Insect Science (September 2015–September 2016) (2017) (0)
- 12 The Fungi (2018) (0)
- George Baker Cummins 1904–2007 (2009) (0)
- Conclusion Symbioses , Biocomplexity , and Metagenomes (2013) (0)
- A developmental study of the termite [Reticulitermes sp.]-associated fungus Coreomycetopsis oedipus. (1976) (0)
- Evolutionary History of Ascomyceteous Yeasts (2014) (0)
- etal%20of%20Bidartondo%202008 (2016) (0)
- TRANSPLANT TIMING AFFECTS EARLY ROOT SYSTEM REGENERATION OF SUGAR MAPLE AND NORTHERN RED OAK (2003) (0)
- The dispersal of microbes among and within flowers by butterflies (2023) (0)
- 101 NanoSIP : Linking Phylogeny with Metabolic Activity of Single Microbial Cells Using Elemental in Situ Hybridization and High Resolution Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (2008) (0)
- Gut anatomical properties and microbial functional assembly promote lignocellulose deconstruction and colony subsistence of a wood-feeding beetle (2019) (0)
- Gut-inhabiting yeasts from the gut of Australian passalid beetles (2013) (0)
- Henry Carl Aldrich (1941–2005): odyssey of a myxomycetologist1 (2007) (0)
- Caps off to the BMS (1997) (0)
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