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Jack W. Fell is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States and has contributed to research primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their research covers several subfields including Plant Science, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Food Science. The main topics of their work focus on Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Plant Pathogens and Resistance, Fermentation and Sensory Analysis, as well as Horticultural and Viticultural Research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jack W. Fell include:

  • Teun Boekhout
  • Rashmi Fotedar
  • Anna Kolecka
  • Marizeth Groenewald
  • Aisha Zeyara

Their research outputs have been published in several scientific venues with repeated contributions to venues such as:

  • Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi
  • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  • IMA Fungus
  • IUBMB Life

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jack W. Fell include:

  • Fungal Planet description sheets: 1478-1549, 2023, Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi
  • Vishniacozyma alagoana sp. nov. a tremellomycetes yeast associated with plants from dry and rainfall tropical forests, 2020, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
  • Nomenclatural issues concerning cultured yeasts and other fungi: why it is important to avoid unneeded name changes, 2021, IMA Fungus
  • Communities of culturable yeasts and yeast-like fungi in oligotrophic hypersaline coastal waters of the Arabian Gulf surrounding Qatar, 2022, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  • A taxogenomic view of the genus Torulaspora: an expansion from ten to twenty-two species, 2025, Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi

Best Publications

  • Biodiversity and systematics of basidiomycetous yeasts as determined by large-subunit rDNA D1/D2 domain sequence analysis.

    Jack W. Fell;Teun Boekhout;Alvaro Fonseca;Gloria Scorzetti

  • Methods for isolation, phenotypic characterization and maintenance of yeasts

    Cletus P. Kurtzman;Jack W. Fell;Teun Boekhout;Vincent Robert

  • Systematics of basidiomycetous yeasts: a comparison of large subunit D1/D2 and internal transcribed spacer rDNA regions

    Gloria Scorzetti;J. W. Fell;A. Fonseca;Adele Statzell-Tallman

  • Hybrid genotypes in the pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans

    Teun Boekhout;Bart Theelen;Mara Diaz;Jack W. Fell

  • The Amsterdam Declaration on Fungal Nomenclature

    David L. Hawksworth;David L. Hawksworth;Pedro W. Crous;Scott A. Redhead;Don R. Reynolds

  • Notes, outline and divergence times of Basidiomycota

    Mao Qiang He;Mao Qiang He;Rui Lin Zhao;Kevin D. Hyde;Dominik Begerow

  • Diversity and distribution of Victoria Land biota

    Byron J. Adams;Richard D. Bardgett;Edward Ayres;Diana H. Wall

  • Yeast Systematics and Phylogeny — Implications of Molecular Identification Methods for Studies in Ecology

    Cletus P. Kurtzman;Jack W. Fell

  • Biodiversity of micro-eukaryotes in Antarctic Dry Valley soils with <5% soil moisture

    Jack W. Fell;Gloria Scorzetti;Laurie Connell;Scott Craig

  • Polyphasic taxonomy of the basidiomycetous yeast genus Rhodosporidium: Rhodosporidium kratochvilovae and related anamorphic species

    José Paulo Sampaio;Mario Gadanho;Sofia Santos;Filomena L. Duarte

  • High-Throughput Detection of Pathogenic Yeasts of the Genus Trichosporon

    Mara R. Diaz;Jack W. Fell

  • Diversity in the yeast Cryptococcus albidus and related species as revealed by ribosomal DNA sequence analysis.

    Álvaro Fonseca;Gloria Scorzetti;Jack W. Fell

  • Leucosporidium gen. n., the heterobasidiomycetous stage of several yeasts of the genus Candida.

    J. W. Fell;Adele C. Statzell;Ingrid L. Hunter;H. J. Phaff

  • Microcoding: the second step in DNA barcoding

    R.C. Summerbell;C.A. Lévesque;K.A. Seifert;M. Bovers

  • Bandoniozyma gen. nov., a Genus of Fermentative and Non-Fermentative Tremellaceous Yeast Species

    Patricia Valente;Teun Boekhout;Melissa Fontes Landell;Juliana Crestani

  • Definition, classification and nomenclature of yeasts

    Cletus P. Kurtzman;Jack W. Fell;Teun Boekhout

  • Molecular Identification of T4 and T5 Genotypes in Isolates from Acanthamoeba Keratitis Patients

    D. R. Ledee;A. Iovieno;D. Miller;N. Mandal

  • Molecular sequence analyses of the intergenic spacer (IGS) associated with rDNA of the two varieties of the pathogenic yeast, Cryptococcus neoformans.

    Mara R. Diaz;Teun Boekhout;Bart Theelen;Jack W. Fell

  • Unusual Fungal Niches

    S.A. Cantrell;J.C. Dianese;J. Fell;N. Gunde-Cimerman

  • Comparative analysis of the intergenic spacer regions and population structure of the species complex of the pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans

    Mara R. Diaz;Teun Boekhout;Traci Kiesling;Jack W. Fell

Frequent Co-Authors

Teun Boekhout
Teun Boekhout University of Amsterdam
Cletus P. Kurtzman
Cletus P. Kurtzman National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research
Vincent Robert
Vincent Robert Utrecht University
Thorsten Stoeck
Thorsten Stoeck Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Bart Theelen
Bart Theelen Utrecht University
Wieland Meyer
Wieland Meyer Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute
Kyung J. Kwon-Chung
Kyung J. Kwon-Chung National Institutes of Health
Eric A. Johnson
Eric A. Johnson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Pedro W. Crous
Pedro W. Crous Utrecht University
Keith A. Seifert
Keith A. Seifert Carleton University

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