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Overview

Anne Pringle is a researcher affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, specializing in Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work extensively covers subfields such as Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Pharmacology, Cell Biology, and Ecology.

The primary focus of their research involves topics including:

  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Fungal Biology and Applications
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Lichen and fungal ecology
  • Turtle Biology and Conservation

Recent scholarly articles authored or co-authored by Anne Pringle include:

  • "Timing of fungal spore release dictates survival during atmospheric transport," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Linking Genes to Traits in Fungi," 2021, Microbial Ecology
  • "Symbiotic status alters fungal eco-evolutionary offspring trajectories," 2023, Ecology Letters
  • "A precise relationship among Buller's drop, ballistospore, and gill morphologies enables maximum packing of spores within gilled mushrooms," 2021, Mycologia
  • "De Novo Gene Birth, Horizontal Gene Transfer, and Gene Duplication as Sources of New Gene Families Associated with the Origin of Symbiosis in Amanita," 2020, Genome Biology and Evolution

Anne Pringle frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Yen-Wen Wang
  • Jacob Golan
  • Agnese Seminara
  • Daniele Lagomarsino Oneto
  • Jaqueline Hess

Their research is often published in scientific venues such as:

  • Microbial Ecology
  • Mycologia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Current Biology

Best Publications

  • A meta-analysis of context-dependency in plant response to inoculation with mycorrhizal fungi

    Jason D. Hoeksema;V. Bala Chaudhary;Catherine A. Gehring;Nancy Collins Johnson

  • Convergent losses of decay mechanisms and rapid turnover of symbiosis genes in mycorrhizal mutualists.

    Annegret Kohler;Annegret Kohler;Alan Kuo;Laszlo G Nagy;Laszlo G Nagy;Emmanuelle Morin;Emmanuelle Morin

  • Mycorrhizal Symbioses and Plant Invasions

    Anne Pringle;James D. Bever;Monique Gardes;Jeri L. Parrent

  • Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: More Diverse than Meets the Eye, and the Ecological Tale of Why

    James D. Bever;Peggy A. Schultz;Anne Pringle;Joseph B. Morton

  • The promise and the potential consequences of the global transport of mycorrhizal fungal inoculum.

    Mark W. Schwartz;Jason D. Hoeksema;Catherine A. Gehring;Nancy C. Johnson

  • CRYPTIC SPECIATION IN THE COSMOPOLITAN AND CLONAL HUMAN PATHOGENIC FUNGUS ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS

    A. Pringle;D. M. Baker;J. L. Platt;J. P. Wares

  • The fitness of filamentous fungi

    Anne Pringle;John W. Taylor

  • Preserving accuracy in GenBank

    Thomas D. Bruns;Meredith Blackwell;Ivan Edwards;Andy F.S. Taylor

  • The invasive plant Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard) inhibits ectomycorrhizal fungi in its introduced range

    Benjamin E. Wolfe;Vikki L. Rodgers;Kristina A. Stinson;Anne Pringle

  • Reproductive isolation and phylogenetic divergence in Neurospora: comparing methods of species recognition in a model eukaryote.

    Jeremy R. Dettman;David J. Jacobson;Elizabeth Turner;Anne Pringle

  • Global patterns of ectomycorrhizal introductions

    Else C. Vellinga;Benjamin E. Wolfe;Anne Pringle

  • The impact of the sand prawn Callianassa kraussi Stebbing on sediment turnover and on bacteria, meiofauna, and benthic microflora

    G.M. Branch;A. Pringle

  • Chronic nitrogen additions fundamentally restructure the soil fungal community in a temperate forest

    Eric W. Morrison;Serita D. Frey;Jesse J. Sadowsky;Linda T.A. van Diepen

  • The emerging science of linked plant-fungal invasions.

    Ian A. Dickie;Ian A. Dickie;Jennifer L. Bufford;Richard C. Cobb;Marie‐Laure Desprez‐Loustau

  • Divergent phenologies may facilitate the coexistence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a North Carolina grassland.

    Anne Pringle;James D. Bever

  • Long-Distance Dispersal of Fungi.

    Jacob J. Golan;Anne Pringle

  • The irreversible loss of a decomposition pathway marks the single origin of an ectomycorrhizal symbiosis.

    Benjamin E. Wolfe;Rodham E. Tulloss;Anne E. Pringle

  • Preserving accuracy in GenBank

    M. I. Bidartondo;Thomas D. Bruns;Meredith Blackwell;Ivan Edwards

  • The captured launch of a ballistospore

    Anne Pringle;Sheila N. Patek;Mark Fischer;Jessica Stolze

  • Dispersal of fungal spores on a cooperatively generated wind

    Marcus Roper;Agnese Seminara;M. M. Bandi;Ann Cobb

  • The ectomycorrhizal fungus Amanita phalloides was introduced and is expanding its range on the west coast of North America

    Anne Pringle;Rachel I. Adams;Hugh B. Cross;Thomas D. Bruns

  • PERSPECTIVES The promise and the potential consequences of the global transport of mycorrhizal fungal inoculum

    Mark W. Schwartz;Nancy C. Johnson;John N. Klironomos;Anne Pringle

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael P. Brenner
Michael P. Brenner University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
James D. Bever
James D. Bever University of Kansas
John W. Taylor
John W. Taylor University of California, Berkeley
Serita D. Frey
Serita D. Frey University of New Hampshire
John N. Klironomos
John N. Klironomos American University of Sharjah
Jean-Marc Moncalvo
Jean-Marc Moncalvo University of Toronto
Ian A. Dickie
Ian A. Dickie University of Canterbury
Naomi E. Pierce
Naomi E. Pierce Harvard University
Bernard Henrissat
Bernard Henrissat Technical University of Denmark
Thomas D. Bruns
Thomas D. Bruns University of California, Berkeley

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