Main research interests include evolution of fungi belonging to Ascomycota, especially lichen-forming fungi and their diversity, with focus on groups with centres of distribution in the tropics and southern Hemisphere. A wide array of methods is employed, including micromorphological, developmental, chemical and molecular approaches
Considerations and consequences of allowing DNA sequence data as types of fungal taxa.
Considerations and consequences of allowing DNA sequence data as types of fungal taxa. IMA Fungus. 2018 Jun; 9(1):167-175.
PMID: 30018877Fungal specificity and selectivity for algae play a major role in determining lichen partnerships across diverse ecogeographic regions in the lichen-forming family Parmeliaceae (Ascomycota).
Fungal specificity and selectivity for algae play a major role in determining lichen partnerships across diverse ecogeographic regions in the lichen-forming family Parmeliaceae (Ascomycota). Mol Ecol. 2015 07; 24(14):3779-97.
PMID: 26073165A without-prejudice list of generic names of fungi for protection under the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants.
A without-prejudice list of generic names of fungi for protection under the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants. IMA Fungus. 2013 Dec; 4(2):381-443.
PMID: 24563844Accelerated evolutionary rates in tropical and oceanic parmelioid lichens (Ascomycota).
Accelerated evolutionary rates in tropical and oceanic parmelioid lichens (Ascomycota). BMC Evol Biol. 2008 Sep 22; 8:257.
PMID: 18808710Phylogeography and biogeography of fungi.
Phylogeography and biogeography of fungi. Mycol Res. 2008 Apr; 112(Pt 4):423-4.
PMID: 18346884Whatever happened to the pyrenomycetes and loculoascomycetes?
Whatever happened to the pyrenomycetes and loculoascomycetes? Mycol Res. 2007 Sep; 111(Pt 9):1064-74.
PMID: 18029164Truffle trouble: what happened to the Tuberales?
Truffle trouble: what happened to the Tuberales? Mycol Res. 2007 Sep; 111(Pt 9):1075-99.
PMID: 18022534The phylogenetic placement of Ostropales within Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota) revisited.
The phylogenetic placement of Ostropales within Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota) revisited. Mycol Res. 2007 Mar; 111(Pt 3):257-67.
PMID: 17363237A five-gene phylogeny of Pezizomycotina.
A five-gene phylogeny of Pezizomycotina. Mycologia. 2006 Nov-Dec; 98(6):1018-28.
PMID: 17486977Assembling the fungal tree of life: progress, classification, and evolution of subcellular traits.
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Assembling the fungal tree of life: progress, classification, and evolution of subcellular traits. Am J Bot. 2004 Oct; 91(10):1446-80.
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