David J. McLaughlin

David J. McLaughlin publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

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David J. McLaughlin D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

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Best Publications

• A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi

  David S Hibbett;Manfred Binder;Joseph F Bischoff;Meredith Blackwell

  3122
  Citations

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

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

  2115
  Citations

• The paleozoic origin of enzymatic lignin decomposition reconstructed from 31 fungal genomes

  Dimitrios Floudas;Manfred Binder;Robert Riley;Kerrie Barry

  1937
  Citations

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

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

  987
  Citations

• Contributions of rpb2 and tef1 to the phylogeny of mushrooms and allies (Basidiomycota, Fungi)

  P Brandon Matheny;Zheng Wang;Manfred Binder;Judd M Curtis

  511
  Citations

• Long-term increase in nitrogen supply alters above- and below-ground ectomycorrhizal communities and increases the dominance of Russula spp. in a temperate oak savanna.

  Peter G. Avis;David J. McLaughlin;Bryn C. Dentinger;Peter B. Reich

  327
  Citations

• An overview of the higher level classification of Pucciniomycotina based on combined analyses of nuclear large and small subunit rDNA sequences

  M. Catherine Aime;P. Brandon Matheny;Daniel A. Henk;Elizabeth M. Frieders

  257
  Citations

• Molecular phylogenetics of porcini mushrooms (Boletus section Boletus).

  Bryn T. M. Dentinger;Joseph F. Ammirati;Ernst E. Both;Dennis E. Desjardin

  189
  Citations

• The search for the fungal tree of life.

  David J. McLaughlin;David S. Hibbett;François Lutzoni;Joseph W. Spatafora

  176
  Citations

• Isolation and Pure Culture Study of Marine Phycomycetes

  Melvin S. Fuller;Bruce E. Fowles;D. J. McLaughlin

  170
  Citations

• An atlas of fungal ultrastructure.

  Alan Beckett;Ian Brent Heath;David Jordan McLaughlin

  148
  Citations

• The mushroom family Psathyrellaceae: evidence for large-scale polyphyly of the genus Psathyrella.

  Mahajabeen Padamsee;P. Brandon Matheny;Bryn T.M. Dentinger;David J. McLaughlin

  110
  Citations

• Ultrastructure of Meiosis in Ustilago Maydis

  K. L. O'Donnell;D. J. McLaughlin

  99
  Citations

• Convergent coevolution in the domestication of coral mushrooms by fungus-growing ants

  A. B. Munkacsi;J. J. Pan;P. Villesen;P. Villesen;Ulrich G Mueller

  94
  Citations

• Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life: constructing the Structural and Biochemical Database

  G.J. Celio;M. Padamsee;B.T.M. Dentinger;R. Bauer

  94
  Citations

• Multiple isolations of a culturable, motile Ichthyosporean (Mesomycetozoa, Opisthokonta), Creolimax fragrantissima n. gen., n. sp., from marine invertebrate digestive tracts.

  Wyth L. Marshall;Gail Celio;David J. McLaughlin;Mary L. Berbee;Mary L. Berbee

  86
  Citations

• Ultrastructural study of promycelial development and basidiospore initiation in Ustilago maydis

  Jane E. Ramberg;David J. McLaughlin

  84
  Citations

• High diversity and widespread occurrence of mitotic spore mats in ectomycorrhizal Pezizales.

  R. A. Healy;M. E. Smith;G. M. Bonito;D. H. Pfister

  83
  Citations

• Postmeiotic Mitosis, Basidiospore Development, and Septation in Ustilago Maydis

  K. L. O'Donnell;D. J. McLaughlin

  83
  Citations

• An overview of the higher level classification of Pucciniomycotina based on combined analyses of nuclear large and small subunit rDNA sequences

  Unknown

  72
  Citations

• Ultrastructure of meiosis in the hollyhock rust fungus,Puccinia malvacearum I. Prophase I — Prometaphase I

  K. L. O'Donnell;D. J. McLaughlin

  67
  Citations

• BASIDIOSPORE INITIATION AND EARLY DEVELOPMENT IN COPRINUS CINEREUS

  David J. McLaughlin

  62
  Citations

• Mitosis and septum formation in the basidiomycete Helicobasidium mompa

  Timothy M. Bourett;David J. McLaughlin

  59
  Citations

• BASIDIOSPOROGENESIS IN BOLETUS RUBINELLUS. I. STERIGMAL INITIATION AND EARLY SPORE DEVELOPMENT

  Kwon S. Yoon;David J. McLaughlin

  33
  Citations

• An ultrastructural pachytene karyotype for Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici

  E. W. A. Boehm;J. C. Wenstrom;D. J. McLaughlin;L. J. Szabo

  33
  Citations

• Ectomycorrhizal fungal communities of oak savanna are distinct from forest communities

  Ian A Dickie;B. T. M Dentinger;B. T. M Dentinger;Peter G Avis;Peter G Avis;David J McLaughlin

  30
  Citations

• PHYLOGENY AND ULTRASTRUCTURE IN EOCRONARTIUM MUSCICOLA: MEIOSIS AND BASIDIAL DEVELOPMENT

  E. W. A. Boehm;D. J. McLaughlin

  30
  Citations

• The spindle pole body and postmeiotic mitosis in Auricularia fuscosuccinea

  David J. McLaughlin

  27
  Citations

• Molecules and morphology in basidiomycete phylogeny

  D. J. McLaughlin;M. E. Berres;L. J. Szabo

  26
  Citations