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A. Elizabeth Arnold

A. Elizabeth Arnold

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
64
Citations
26002
World Ranking
953
National Ranking
256

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
62
Citations
24915
World Ranking
2017
National Ranking
731

Overview

A. Elizabeth Arnold is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. The primary areas of their research encompass Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Physics and Astronomy. Within these broad fields, their work frequently intersects with subfields such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography, Geophysics, Plant Science, and Cell Biology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of subjects that include ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, geophysics and gravity measurements, earthquake detection and analysis, plant pathogens and fungal diseases, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, methane hydrates and related phenomena, and the interactions between plants and fungi.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by A. Elizabeth Arnold include:

  • Extending Plant Defense Theory to Seeds, 2020, published in Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • Climate and seasonality drive the richness and composition of tropical fungal endophytes at a landscape scale, 2021, published in Communications Biology
  • Ecological generalism drives hyperdiversity of secondary metabolite gene clusters in xylarialean endophytes, 2021, published in New Phytologist
  • Drivers and implications of distance decay differ for ectomycorrhizal and foliar endophytic fungi across an anciently fragmented landscape, 2021, published in The ISME Journal
  • Vertically transmitted microbiome protects eggs from fungal infection and egg failure, 2021, published in Animal Microbiome

The frequent coauthors associated with this scientist reflect collaborations within related ecological and biological fields. These include Laura Meredith, Holly Andrews, Elizabeth Eder, Marija Veličković, and Malak Tfaily.

Publication venues where the scientist's work appears often are:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • New Phytologist
  • Current Biology
  • Plant and Fungal Systematics
  • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Best Publications

  • Fungal endophytes: diversity and functional roles.

    R. J. Rodriguez;R. J. Rodriguez;J. F. White;A. E. Arnold;R. S. Redman

  • Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny

    Timothy Y. James;Frank Kauff;Conrad L. Schoch;P. Brandon Matheny

  • Fungal endophytes limit pathogen damage in a tropical tree

    A. Elizabeth Arnold;Luis Carlos Mejía;Damond Kyllo;Enith I. Rojas

  • Diversity and host range of foliar fungal endophytes: are tropical leaves biodiversity hotspots?

    A. Elizabeth Arnold;F. Lutzoni

  • Are tropical fungal endophytes hyperdiverse

    A.E. Arnold;Z. Maynard;G.S. Gilbert;P.D. Coley

  • Understanding the diversity of foliar endophytic fungi: progress, challenges, and frontiers

    A. Elizabeth Arnold

  • Assembling the fungal tree of life: progress, classification, and evolution of subcellular traits

    François Lutzoni;Frank Kauff;Cymon J. Cox;David McLaughlin

  • Filling key gaps in population and community ecology

    Anurag A. Agrawal;David D. Ackerly;Fred Adler;A. Elizabeth Arnold

  • Endophytic fungi as biocontrol agents of Theobroma cacao pathogens

    Luis C. Mejía;Luis C. Mejía;Enith I. Rojas;Zuleyka Maynard;Sunshine Van Bael

  • Diversity and phylogenetic affinities of foliar fungal endophytes in loblolly pine inferred by culturing and environmental PCR

    A. Elizabeth Arnold;Daniel A. Henk;Rebecca L. Eells;François Lutzoni

  • Canopy cover and leaf age affect colonization by tropical fungal endophytes: Ecological pattern and process in Theobroma cacao (Malvaceae)

    A. Elizabeth Arnold;Edward Allen Herre

  • Host and geographic structure of endophytic and endolichenic fungi at a continental scale

    Jana M. U'Ren;François Lutzoni;Jolanta Miadlikowska;Alexander D. Laetsch

  • A phylogenetic estimation of trophic transition networks for ascomycetous fungi: are lichens cradles of symbiotrophic fungal diversification?

    A. Elizabeth Arnold;A. Elizabeth Arnold;Jolanta Miadlikowska;K. Lindsay Higgins;K. Lindsay Higgins;Snehal D. Sarvate;Snehal D. Sarvate

  • A five-gene phylogeny of Pezizomycotina

    Joseph W. Spatafora;Gi Ho Sung;Desiree Johnson;Cedar Hesse

  • Phylogenetic relationships, host affinity, and geographic structure of boreal and arctic endophytes from three major plant lineages.

    K. Lindsay Higgins;A. Elizabeth Arnold;Jolanta Miadlikowska;Snehal D. Sarvate

  • Fungal endophytes in dicotyledonous neotropical trees: patterns of abundance and diversity

    A. Elizabeth Arnold;Zuleyka Maynard;Gregory S. Gilbert

  • Seed survival in soil: interacting effects of predation, dormancy and the soil microbial community

    James W. Dalling;James W. Dalling;Adam S. Davis;Brian J. Schutte;A. Elizabeth Arnold

  • New insights into classification and evolution of the Lecanoromycetes (Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota) from phylogenetic analyses of three ribosomal RNA- and two protein-coding genes

    Jolanta Miadlikowska;Frank Kauff;Valérie Hofstetter;Emily Fraker

  • A multigene phylogenetic synthesis for the class Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota): 1307 fungi representing 1139 infrageneric taxa, 317 genera and 66 families

    Jolanta Miadlikowska;Frank Kauff;Filip Högnabba;Jeffrey C. Oliver

  • Diverse bacteria inhabit living hyphae of phylogenetically diverse fungal endophytes.

    Michele T. Hoffman;A. Elizabeth Arnold

  • Contemporaneous radiations of fungi and plants linked to symbiosis

    François Lutzoni;Michael D. Nowak;Michael E. Alfaro;Valérie Reeb

  • Fungal endophyte diversity in coffee plants from Colombia, Hawai'i, Mexico and Puerto Rico

    Fernando E. Vega;Ann Simpkins;M. Catherine Aime;Francisco Posada

  • Improving ITS sequence data for identification of plant pathogenic fungi

    R. Henrik Nilsson;Kevin D. Hyde;Julia Pawłowska;Martin Ryberg

  • The fruits the agouti ate: Hymenaea courbaril seed fate when its disperser is absent

    Nigel M. Asquith;John Terborgh;A. Elizabeth Arnold;C. Mailén Riveros

  • Bioactivity of fungal endophytes as a function of endophyte taxonomy and the taxonomy and distribution of their host plants.

    Sarah J. Higginbotham;A. Elizabeth Arnold;Alicia Ibañez;Carmenza Spadafora

  • Contributions of North American endophytes to the phylogeny, ecology, and taxonomy of Xylariaceae (Sordariomycetes, Ascomycota).

    Jana M U'Ren;Jolanta Miadlikowska;Naupaka B Zimmerman;François Lutzoni

  • Not every fungus is everywhere: scaling to the biogeography of fungal–plant interactions across roots, shoots and ecosystems

    Kabir G. Peay;Martin I. Bidartondo;A. Elizabeth Arnold

  • DIVERSITY, HOST AFFINITY, AND DISTRIBUTION OF SEED‐INFECTING FUNGI: A CASE STUDY WITH CECROPIA

    Rachel E. Gallery;James W. Dalling;James W. Dalling;A. Elizabeth Arnold

  • Soilborne fungi have host affinity and host-specific effects on seed germination and survival in a lowland tropical forest

    Carolina Sarmiento;Paul-Camilo Zalamea;James W. Dalling;James W. Dalling;Adam S. Davis

  • Culturing and direct PCR suggest prevalent host generalism among diverse fungal endophytes of tropical forest grasses

    K. Lindsay Higgins;Phyllis D. Coley;Thomas A. Kursar;A. Elizabeth Arnold

  • Host availability drives distributions of fungal endophytes in the imperilled boreal realm.

    Jana M. U’Ren;François Lutzoni;Jolanta Miadlikowska;Naupaka B. Zimmerman

  • Tissue storage and primer selection influence pyrosequencing-based inferences of diversity and community composition of endolichenic and endophytic fungi.

    Jana M. U'Ren;Jakob M. Riddle;James T. Monacell;Ignazio Carbone

  • Sesquiterpene quinones and related metabolites from Phyllosticta spinarum, a fungal strain endophytic in Platycladus orientalis of the Sonoran Desert.

    E M Kithsiri Wijeratne;Priyani A Paranagama;Marilyn T Marron;Malkanthi K Gunatilaka

  • Smardaesidins A-G, isopimarane and 20-nor-isopimarane diterpenoids from Smardaea sp., a fungal endophyte of the moss Ceratodon purpureus.

    Xiao Ning Wang;Xiao Ning Wang;Bharat P. Bashyal;E. M.Kithsiri Wijeratne;Jana M. U'Ren

Frequent Co-Authors

James W. Dalling
James W. Dalling University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
François Lutzoni
François Lutzoni Duke University
A. A. Leslie Gunatilaka
A. A. Leslie Gunatilaka University of Arizona
Phyllis D. Coley
Phyllis D. Coley University of Utah
Thomas A. Kursar
Thomas A. Kursar University of Utah
Adam S. Davis
Adam S. Davis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ignazio Carbone
Ignazio Carbone North Carolina State University
Edward Allen Herre
Edward Allen Herre Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Cécile Gueidan
Cécile Gueidan Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Robert Lücking
Robert Lücking Freie Universität Berlin

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