Publications
Lorch JM, DL Lindner, A Gargas, LK Muller, AM Minnis, DS Blehert. A culture-based survey of fungi in soil from bat hibernacula in the eastern United States and its implications for detection of Geomyces destructans, the causal agent of bat white-nose syndrome. 2013.
Mycologia 105: 237-252.
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Muller LK, JM Lorch, DL Lindner, M O'Connor, A Gargas, DS Blehert. Bat white-nose syndrome: a real-time TaqMan polymerase chain reaction test targeting the intergenic spacer region of Geomyces destructans. 2013.
Mycologia 105: 253-259. download PDF (335 kb)
Lindner DL, A Gargas, JM Lorch, MT Banik, J Glaeser, TH Kunz, DS Blehert. 2011.
DNA-based detection of the fungal pathogen Geomyces destructans in soils from bat hibernacula.
Mycologia. 103: 241-246.
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Lorch JM, A Gargas, CU Meteyer, BM Berlowski-Zier, DE Green, V Shearn-Bochsler, NJ Thomas, DS Blehert. 2010.
A rapid diagnostic test for bat white-nose syndrome using PCR.
Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation 22: 224-230.
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Gargas A, MT Trest, M Christensen, TJ Volk, DS Blehert. 2009. Geomyces destructans sp. nov. associated with bat white-nose syndrome.
Mycotaxon 108: 147–154.
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Meteyer CU, EL Buckles, DS Blehert, AC Hicks, DE Green, V Shearn-Bochsler, NJ Thomas, A Gargas, MJ Behr. 2009. Pathology Criteria for Confirming White-nose Syndrome in Bats.
Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation 21(4): 411-414.
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Blehert, DS, AC Hicks, M Behr, CU Meteyer, B M Berlowski-Zier, EL Buckles, JTH Coleman, SR Darling, A Gargas, R Niver, JC Okoniewski, RJ Rudd, and WB Stone.
2009. Bat White-Nose Syndrome: An Emerging Fungal Pathogen?
Science 323: 227.
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Express Publication, Oct 30, 2008
Nelsen MP and A Gargas. 2009. Symbiont flexibility in Thamnolia vermicularis (Pertusariales: Icmadophilaceae).
The Bryologist 112: 404-417. download PDF (640 kb)
Nelsen MP and A Gargas. 2009. Assessing clonality and chemotype monophyly in Thamnolia (Pertusariales: Icmadophilaceae).
The Bryologist 112: 42-53. download PDF (300 kb)
Nelsen MP and A Gargas. 2008. Disassociation and horizontal transmission of co-dispersing lichen symbionts in the genus Lepraria (Lecanorales: Stereocaulaceae).
New Phytologist 177: 264-275. download preprint PDF (276 kb)
Krüger D and A Gargas. 2008. Secondary structure of ITS2 ribosomal RNA provides taxonomic characters for systematic studies - a case in Lycoperdaceae (Basidiomycota).
Mycological Research 112: 316-330. download PDF (2.2 Mb)
Nelsen MP and A Gargas. 2008. Phylogenetic distribution and evolution of secondary metabolites in the lichenized fungal genus Lepraria (Lecanorales: Stereocaulaceae).
Nova Hedwigia 86: 115-131. contact AndreaGargas (OneWord) at symbiology.com for a reprint
Landis FC and A Gargas. 2007. Using ITS2 secondary structure to create species-specific oligonucleotide probes for fungi.
Mycologia 99: 681-692. download preprint PDF (180 kb)
Nelsen MP, S Will-Wolf and A Gargas. 2007. One-hundred years of change in corticolous macrolichens of Madison, Wisconsin.
Evansia 24: 108-112. download preprint PDF (230 kb)
Nelsen MP, R Lücking, L Umaña, MT Trest, S Will-Wolf, J Luis-Chaves and A Gargas. 2007. Multiclavula ichthyiformis (Fungi: Basidiomycota: Cantharellales: Clavulinaceae), A remarkable new basidiolichen from Costa Rica.
American Journal of Botany 94: 1289-1296. download PDF (1.0 Mb)
Krüger D and A Gargas. 2006. New measures of topological stability in phylogenetic trees - Taking taxon composition into account.
Bioinformation 1: 327-330. download PDF (96 kb)
Nelsen MP and A Gargas. 2006. Actin type intron sequences increase phylogenetic resolution: An example from Asterochloris (Chlorophyta: Trebouxiphceae).
Lichenologist 38:435-440.
Landis FC, TJ Givnish and A Gargas. 2005. The influence of arbuscular mycorrhizae and light on Midwestern sand savanna understories I. plant competition.
Mycorrhiza 15: 547-553. download PDF (380 kb)
Landis FC, TJ Givnish and A Gargas. 2005. The influence of arbuscular mycorrhizae and light on Midwestern sand savanna understories II. plant community composition.
Mycorrhiza 15: 555-562. download PDF (430 kb)
Landis FC, TJ Givnish and A Gargas. 2004. The relationship between plant understory and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in American midwestern oak savannas.
New Phytologist 164: 493-504. download PDF (220 kb)
Krüger D and A Gargas. 2004. The basidiomycete genus Polyporus - an emendation based on phylogeny and putative secondary structure of ribosomal RNA molecules.
Feddes Repertorium 115: 530-546. download PDF (4 Mb)
Sun HJ, PT DePriest, A Gargas, AY Rossman and IE Friedmann. 2002. Pestalotiopsis guepini is a dominant parasymbiontic fungus in North American lichens.
Symbiosis 33: 215-226. download PDF (1.5 Mb)
DePriest PT, NV Ivanova, D Fahselt, V Alstrup and A Gargas. 2000. Sequences of psychrophilic fungi amplified from subfossil ascolichens at ablating edge of glaciers.
Canadian Journal of Botany 78: 1450-1459. download PDF (600 kb)
Jensen AB, Gargas A, Eilenberg J and Rosendahl S. 1998. Relationships of the insect-pathogenic order Entomophthorales (Zygomycotina, Fungi) based on phylogenetic analysis of small subunit ribosomal DNA (SSU rDNA) sequences.
Fungal Genetics and Biology 24: 325-334. download PDF (160 kb)
Wedin M, Tehler A and Gargas A. 1998. Phylogenetic relationships of Sphaerophoraceae (Ascomycetes) inferred from SSU rDNA sequences.
Plant Systematics and Evolution 209: 75-83.
Gargas A and PT DePriest. 1996. A nomenclature for fungal PCR primers with examples from intron-containing SSU rDNA.
Mycologia 88: 745-748. download PDF (920 kb)
Grube M, A Gargas and PT DePriest. 1996. A small insertion in the SSU rDNA of the lichen fungus. Arthonia lapidicola as a degenerate group I intron.
Current Genetics 29: 582-586. download PDF (185 kb)
Gargas A, PT DePriest, M Grube and A Tehler. 1995. Multiple origins of lichen symbioses in fungi suggested by SSU rDNA phylogeny.
Science (cover article) 268: 1492-1495. download PDF (1.0 Mb)
Gargas A, PT DePriest and JW Taylor. 1995. Positions of multiple insertions in SSU rDNA of lichen-forming fungi.
Molecular Biology and Evolution 12: 208-218. download PDF (1.3 Mb)
Gargas A and JW Taylor. 1995. Phylogeny of discomycetes and early radiation of the apothecial ascomycetes inferred from SSU rDNA sequence data.
Experimental Mycology 19: 7-15. download PDF (1.8 Mb)
Grube M, PT DePriest, A Gargas and J Hafellner. 1995. DNA isolation from lichen ascomata.
Mycological Research 99: 1321-1324.
Saenz GS, A Gargas and JW Taylor. 1994. 18S rRNA gene sequences and supraordinal classification of the Erysiphales.
Mycologia 86: 212-216. download first page PDF (480 kb)
Landvik S, O Eriksson, A Gargas and P Gustafsson. 1993. Relationships of the genus Neolecta (Neolectales ordo nov. Ascomycotina), inferred from 18S rDNA sequences.
Systema Ascomycetum 11: 107-115. download PDF (2.3 Mb)
Gargas A and JW Taylor. 1992. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers for amplifying and sequencing 18S rDNA from lichenized fungi.
Mycologia 84: 589-592. download PDF (940 kb)