Dr. Andrea Gargas

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

• 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), In Press
• Nelsen MP, Gargas A (2009) Assessing clonality and chemotype monophyly in Thamnolia (Pertusariales: Icmadophilaceae), The Bryologist, 112, 42-53
• Nelsen MP, Gargas A (2009) Symbiont flexibility in Thamnolia vermicularis (Pertusariales: Icmadophilaceae), The Bryologist, 112, 404-417
• 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
• Blehert DS, Hicks AC, Behr M, Meteyer CU, Berlowski-Zier BM, Buckles EL, Coleman JT, Darling SR, Gargas A, Niver R, Okoniewski JC, Rudd RJ, Stone WB (Jan 2009) Bat white-nose syndrome: an emerging fungal pathogen?, Science (New York, N.Y.), 323 (5911), 227
• Blehert DS, Hicks AC, Behr M, Meteyer CU, Berlowski-Zier BM, Buckles EL, Coleman JT, Darling SR, Gargas A, Niver R, Okoniewski JC, Rudd RJ, Stone WB (Oct 2008) Bat White-Nose Syndrome: An Emerging Fungal Pathogen?, Science (New York, N.Y.)
• Nelsen MP, Gargas A (2008) Phylogenetic distribution and evolution of secondary metabolites in the lichenized fungal genus Lepraria (Lecanorales: Stereocaulaceae), Nova Hedwigia, 86, 115-131
• Nelsen MP, Gargas A (2008) Dissociation and horizontal transmission of codispersing lichen symbionts in the genus Lepraria (Lecanorales: Stereocaulaceae)., The New Phytologist, 177 (1), 264-75
• Krüger D, Gargas A (2008) Secondary structure of ITS2 ribosomal RNA provides taxonomic characters for systematic studies - a case in Lycoperdaceae (Basidiomycota), Mycological Research, 112, 316-330
• Landis FC, Gargas A (2007) Using ITS2 secondary structure to create species-specific oligonucleotide probes for fungi, Mycologia, 99, 681-692
• Nelsen, MP, Will-Wolf, S, Gargas, A (2007) One-hundred years of change in corticolous macrolichens of Madison, Wisconsin, Evansia, 24, 108-112
• Nelsen MP, R Lücking, L Umaña, MT Trest, S Will-Wolf, J Luis-Chaves, A Gargas (2007) Multiclavula ichthyiformis (Fungi: Basidiomycota: Cantharellales: Clavulinaceae), A remarkable new basidiolichen from Costa Rica, American Journal of Botany, 94, 1289-1296
• Krüger D, Gargas A (2006) New measures of topological stability in phylogenetic trees - Taking taxon composition into account., Bioinformation, 1 (8), 327-30
• Nelsen, MP, Gargas, A (2006) Actin type intron sequences increase phylogenetic resolution: An example from Asterochloris (Chlorophyta: Trebouxiphceae), Lichenologist, 38, 435-440
• Landis FC, Gargas A, Givnish TJ (Nov 2005) The influence of arbuscular mycorrhizae and light on Wisconsin (USA) sand savanna understories 1. Plant community composition., Mycorrhiza, 15 (7), 547-53
• Landis FC, Gargas A, Givnish TJ (Nov 2005) The influence of arbuscular mycorrhizae and light on Wisconsin (USA) sand savanna understories 2. Plant competition., Mycorrhiza, 15 (7), 555-62
• Landis, F.C., T.J. Givnish, A. Gargas (2004) The relationship between plant understory and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in American midwestern oak savannas, New Phytologist, 164, 493-504
• Krüger, D, Gargas, A (2004) The basidiomycete genus Polyporus - an emendation based on phylogeny and putative secondary structure of ribosomal RNA molecules, Feddes Repertorium, 115, 530-546
• Sun, H.J., DePriest, P. T., Gargas, A., Rossman, A. Y. and E. Friedmann, I., Pestalotiopsis guepini is a dominant parasymbiontic fungus in North American lichens, Symbiosis, 33, 215-226, 1 Jan 2002
• Sun HJ, DePriest PT, Gargas A, Rossman AY, Friedmann IE (2002) Pestalotiopsis guepini is a dominant parasymbiontic fungus in North American lichens, Symbiosis, 33, 215-226
• DePriest, P. T., Ivanova, N. V., Fahselt, D. Alstrup, V. and Gargas, A. (2000) Sequences of psychrophilic fungi amplified from subfossil ascolichens at ablating edge of glaciers, Canadian Journal of Botany, 78, 1450-1459
• Jensen AB, Gargas A, Eilenberg J, Rosendahl S (August 1998) Relationships of the insect-pathogenic order Entomophthorales (Zygomycota, Fungi) based on phylogenetic analyses of nuclear small subunit ribosomal DNA sequences (SSU rDNA), Fungal Genetics and Biology, 24 (3), 325-34
• 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
• Grube M, Gargas A, DePriest PT (May 1996) A small insertion in the SSU rDNA of the lichen fungus Arthonia lapidicola is a degenerate group-I intron, Current Genetics, 29 (6), 582-6
• Gargas, A, and PT DePriest, A nomenclature for fungal PCR primers with examples from intron-containing SSU rDNA, Mycologia, 88, 745-748, 1996
• Gargas A, PT DePriest (1996) A nomenclature for fungal PCR primers with examples from intron-containing SSU rDNA, Mycologia, 88, 745-748
• Gargas A, DePriest PT, Grube M, Tehler A (June 1995) Multiple origins of lichen symbioses in fungi suggested by SSU rDNA phylogeny [published erratum appears in Science 1995 Jun 30;268(5219):1833], Science, 268 (5216), 1492-5
• Gargas A, DePriest PT, Grube M, Tehler A (Jun 1995) Multiple origins of lichen symbioses in fungi suggested by SSU rDNA phylogeny., Science (New York, N.Y.), 268 (5216), 1492-5
• Gargas A, DePriest PT, Taylor JW (March 1995) Positions of multiple insertions in SSU rDNA of lichen-forming fungi, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 12 (2), 208-18
• Gargas A, Taylor JW (Mar 1995) Phylogeny of Discomycetes and early radiations of the apothecial Ascomycotina inferred from SSU rDNA sequence data., Experimental Mycology, 19 (1), 7-15
• Grube, M, PT DePriest, A Gargas, 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
• 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
• Gargas, A, and Taylor JW (1992) Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers for amplifying and sequencing 18S rDNA from lichenized fungi, Mycologia, 84, 589-592