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Rytas Vilgalys
Researcher at Duke University
Publications - 228
Citations - 31172
Rytas Vilgalys is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Phylogenetic tree & Ribosomal DNA. The author has an hindex of 79, co-authored 220 publications receiving 27733 citations. Previous affiliations of Rytas Vilgalys include University of Göttingen & Virginia Tech.
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Rapid genetic identification and mapping of enzymatically amplified ribosomal DNA from several Cryptococcus species.
Rytas Vilgalys,M Hester +1 more
TL;DR: A novel approach that uses the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for rapid simplified restriction typing and mapping of DNA from many different isolates is described, which ought to have wide applicability for clinical detection and other studies.
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A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi
David S. Hibbett,Manfred Binder,Joseph F. Bischoff,Meredith Blackwell,Paul F. Cannon,Ove E. Eriksson,Sabine M. Huhndorf,Timothy Y. James,Paul M. Kirk,Robert Lücking,H. Thorsten Lumbsch,François Lutzoni,P. Brandon Matheny,David J. McLaughlin,Martha J. Powell,Scott A. Redhead,Conrad L. Schoch,Joseph W. Spatafora,Joost A. Stalpers,Rytas Vilgalys,M. Catherine Aime,André Aptroot,Robert Bauer,Dominik Begerow,Gerald L. Benny,Lisa A. Castlebury,Pedro W. Crous,Yu-Cheng Dai,Walter Gams,David M. Geiser,Gareth W. Griffith,Cécile Gueidan,David L. Hawksworth,Geir Hestmark,Kentaro Hosaka,Richard A. Humber,Kevin D. Hyde,Joseph E. Ironside,Urmas Kõljalg,Cletus P. Kurtzman,Karl-Henrik Larsson,Robert W. Lichtwardt,Joyce E. Longcore,Jolanta Miadlikowska,Andrew N. Miller,Jean-Marc Moncalvo,Sharon E. Mozley-Standridge,Franz Oberwinkler,Erast Parmasto,Valérie Reeb,Jack D. Rogers,Claude Roux,Leif Ryvarden,José Paulo Sampaio,Arthur Schüssler,Junta Sugiyama,R. Greg Thorn,Leif Tibell,Wendy A. Untereiner,Christopher Walker,Zheng Wang,Alex Weir,Michael Weiss,Merlin M. White,Katarina Winka,Yi-Jian Yao,Ning Zhang +66 more
TL;DR: A comprehensive phylogenetic classification of the kingdom Fungi is proposed, with reference to recent molecular phylogenetic analyses, and with input from diverse members of the fungal taxonomic community.
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Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny
Timothy Y. James,Frank Kauff,Conrad L. Schoch,P. Brandon Matheny,Valérie Hofstetter,Cymon J. Cox,Cymon J. Cox,Gail Celio,Cécile Gueidan,Emily Fraker,Jolanta Miadlikowska,H. Thorsten Lumbsch,Alexandra Rauhut,Valérie Reeb,A. Elizabeth Arnold,A. Elizabeth Arnold,Anja Amtoft,Jason E. Stajich,Kentaro Hosaka,Kentaro Hosaka,Gi-Ho Sung,Desiree Johnson,Ben O'Rourke,Michael Crockett,Manfred Binder,Judd M. Curtis,Jason C. Slot,Zheng Wang,Zheng Wang,Andrew W. Wilson,Arthur Schüßler,Joyce E. Longcore,Kerry O'Donnell,Sharon E. Mozley-Standridge,David Porter,Peter M. Letcher,Martha J. Powell,John W. Taylor,Merlin M. White,Gareth W. Griffith,David R. Davies,Richard A. Humber,Joseph B. Morton,Junta Sugiyama,Amy Y. Rossman,Jack D. Rogers,Donald H. Pfister,David Hewitt,Karen Hansen,Sarah Hambleton,R. A. Shoemaker,Jan Kohlmeyer,Brigitte Volkmann-Kohlmeyer,Robert A. Spotts,Maryna Serdani,Pedro W. Crous,Karen W. Hughes,Kenji Matsuura,Ewald Langer,Gitta Langer,Wendy A. Untereiner,Robert Lücking,Burkhard Büdel,David M. Geiser,André Aptroot,Paul Diederich,Imke Schmitt,Imke Schmitt,Matthias Schultz,Rebecca Yahr,Rebecca Yahr,David S. Hibbett,François Lutzoni,David J. McLaughlin,Joseph W. Spatafora,Rytas Vilgalys +75 more
TL;DR: It is indicated that there may have been at least four independent losses of the flagellum in the kingdom Fungi, and the enigmatic microsporidia seem to be derived from an endoparasitic chytrid ancestor similar to Rozella allomycis, on the earliest diverging branch of the fungal phylogenetic tree.
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Assessment of soil microbial community structure by use of taxon-specific quantitative PCR assays.
TL;DR: A quantitative PCR-based approach to estimating the relative abundances of major taxonomic groups of bacteria and fungi in soil provides a rapid and robust index of microbial community structure.
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Fungal Community Analysis by Large-Scale Sequencing of Environmental Samples
TL;DR: The high rate at which new sequence types were recovered even after sampling 863 fungal ITS sequences and the dominance of fungi in the authors' libraries relative to other eukaryotes suggest that the abundance and diversity of fungiIn forest soils may be much higher than previously hypothesized.