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Overview

John W. Taylor is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Medicine, with a significant focus on subfields such as Plant Science, Epidemiology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, and Infectious Diseases.

Their research topics include:

  • Fungal Infections and Studies
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
  • Plant Pathogens and Resistance
  • Phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens
  • Plant and animal studies

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Threats Posed by the Fungal Kingdom to Humans, Wildlife, and Agriculture" (2020) published in mBio
  • "Co-occurrence networks reveal more complexity than community composition in resistance and resilience of microbial communities" (2022) published in Nature Communications
  • "Fusarium: more than a node or a foot-shaped basal cell" (2021) published in Studies in Mycology
  • "Fungal community assembly in drought-stressed sorghum shows stochasticity, selection, and universal ecological dynamics" (2020) published in Nature Communications
  • "Genome-resolved metagenomics reveals role of iron metabolism in drought-induced rhizosphere microbiome dynamics" (2021) published in Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors in their research include Jennifer R. Head, Justin V. Remais, Cheng Gao, Liliam Montoya, and Devin Coleman-Derr, with collaboration counts ranging from 9 to 15 publications.

They often publish in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Fungi
  • PLoS Pathogens
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Phylogenetic Species Recognition and Species Concepts in Fungi

    John W. Taylor;David J. Jacobson;Scott Kroken;Takao Kasuga

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

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

  • Fungal Molecular Systematics

    T.D. Bruns;T.J. White;J.W. Taylor

  • Isolation of DNA from fungal mycelia and single spores

    Steven B. Lee;John W. Taylor

  • Dispersal in microbes: fungi in indoor air are dominated by outdoor air and show dispersal limitation at short distances

    Rachel I Adams;Marzia Miletto;John W Taylor;Thomas D Bruns

  • Stromal estrogen receptors mediate mitogenic effects of estradiol on uterine epithelium.

    P. S. Cooke;D. L. Buchanan;P. Young;T. Setiawan

  • Drought delays development of the sorghum root microbiome and enriches for monoderm bacteria

    Ling Xu;Dan Naylor;Dan Naylor;Zhaobin Dong;Zhaobin Dong;Tuesday Simmons;Tuesday Simmons

  • Cryptic speciation and recombination in the aflatoxin-producing fungus Aspergillus flavus

    David M. Geiser;John I. Pitt;John W. Taylor

  • THE EVOLUTION OF ASEXUAL FUNGI: Reproduction, Speciation and Classification

    JW Taylor;DJ Jacobson;MC Fisher

  • Identification of indigenous and introduced symbiotic fungi in ectomycorrhizae by amplification of nuclear and mitochondrial ribosomal DNA

    Monique Gardes;Thomas J. White;J. André Fortin;Thomas D. Bruns

  • Phylogenomic analysis of type I polyketide synthase genes in pathogenic and saprobic ascomycetes

    Scott Kroken;N. Louise Glass;John W. Taylor;O. C. Yoder

  • Molecular and phenotypic description of Coccidioides posadasii sp. nov., previously recognized as the non-California population of Coccidioides immitis.

    M. C. Fisher;G. L. Koenig;T. J. White;J. W. Taylor

  • Endemism and functional convergence across the North American soil mycobiome

    Jennifer M. Talbot;Thomas D. Bruns;John W. Taylor;Dylan P. Smith

  • Dating the evolutionary radiations of the true fungi

    Mary L. Berbee;John W. Taylor

  • Molecular markers reveal cryptic sex in the human pathogen Coccidioides immitis

    Austin Burt;Deidre A. Carter;Gina L. Koenig;Thomas J. White

  • The Amsterdam Declaration on Fungal Nomenclature

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

  • A multilocus genealogical approach to phylogenetic species recognition in the model eukaryote Neurospora.

    Jeremy R. Dettman;David J. Jacobson;John W. Taylor

  • Phylogeny of five fungus-like protoctistan Phytophthora species, inferred from the internal transcribed spacers of ribosomal DNA.

    Steven B. Lee;John W. Taylor

  • The Fungal Holomorph: Mitotic, Meiotic and Pleomorphic Speciation in Fungal Systematics

    Don R. Reynolds;John R. Taylor

  • Primer -- The Fungi

    Jason E. Stajich;Mary L. Berbee;Meredith Blackwell;David S. Hibbett

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas D. Bruns
Thomas D. Bruns University of California, Berkeley
Mary L. Berbee
Mary L. Berbee University of British Columbia
Pedro W. Crous
Pedro W. Crous Utrecht University
David M. Geiser
David M. Geiser Pennsylvania State University
Austin Burt
Austin Burt Imperial College London
Rytas Vilgalys
Rytas Vilgalys Duke University
Matthew C. Fisher
Matthew C. Fisher Imperial College London
David L. Hawksworth
David L. Hawksworth Royal Botanic Gardens
Kabir G. Peay
Kabir G. Peay Stanford University
Jason E. Stajich
Jason E. Stajich University of California, Riverside

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