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Mats Wedin is affiliated with the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Sweden. Their research spans several main fields of study, primarily within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with 59 publications, as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with 14 publications. The subfields of study highlight a focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (30 publications), Plant Science (28 publications), and Cell Biology (11 publications), among others.

The primary topics of Wedin's work include lichen and fungal ecology, which accounts for 48 publications, followed by mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions with 34 publications, and plant pathogens and fungal diseases, encompassing 22 publications. Additional topics involve botany and plant ecology studies, bryophyte studies and records, yeasts and rust fungi studies, as well as forest ecology and biodiversity studies.

Frequent publication venues where Wedin's research appears include The Lichenologist, with six publications, Fungal Diversity and Environmental Microbiology, each with two publications, The Bryologist, also with two publications, and Plant and Fungal Systematics, with two publications.

Wedin has collaborated with several frequent co-authors. The most common are Ana M. Millanes with nine joint publications, followed by Martin Westberg with eight, Alica Košuthová with seven, Sandra Freire-Rallo with six, and Paul Diederich with six as well.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Wedin cover various aspects of fungal and lichen research. These include:

  • Species diversity of Basidiomycota, 2022, Fungal Diversity
  • Large differences in carbohydrate degradation and transport potential among lichen fungal symbionts, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Disentangling functional trait variation and covariation in epiphytic lichens along a continent-wide latitudinal gradient, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • The yeast lichenosphere: high diversity of basidiomycetes from the lichens Tephromela atra and Rhizoplaca melanophthalma, 2022, Fungal Biology
  • Tremella macrobasidiata and Tremella variae have abundant and widespread yeast stages in Lecanora lichens, 2021, Environmental Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Fungal diversity notes 111–252—taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal taxa

    Guo Jie Li;Kevin D. Hyde;Kevin D. Hyde;Kevin D. Hyde;Rui Lin Zhao;Sinang Hongsanan;Sinang Hongsanan

  • Towards an integrated phylogenetic classification of the Tremellomycetes

    X.-Z. Liu;Q.-M. Wang;M. Göker;M. Groenewald

  • Notes for genera: Ascomycota

    Nalin N. Wijayawardene;Kevin D. Hyde;Kunhiraman C. Rajeshkumar;David L. Hawksworth

  • Phylogenetic generic classification of parmelioid lichens (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) based on molecular, morphological and chemical evidence

    Ana Crespo;Frank Kauff;Pradeep K. Divakar;Ruth del Prado

  • Preserving accuracy in GenBank

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

  • One hundred new species of lichenized fungi : a signature of undiscovered global diversity

    H. Thorsten Lumbsch;Teuvo Ahti;Susanne Altermann;Guillermo Amo de Paz

  • Dating the Diversification of the Major Lineages of Ascomycota (Fungi)

    María Prieto;Mats Wedin

  • Testing morphology-based hypotheses of phylogenetic relationships in Parmeliaceae (Ascomycota) using three ribosomal markers and the nuclear RPB1 gene.

    Ana Crespo;H. Thorsten Lumbsch;Jan-Eric Mattsson;Oscar Blanco

  • Phylogeny and character evolution in the jelly fungi (Tremellomycetes, Basidiomycota, Fungi).

    Ana M. Millanes;Paul Diederich;Stefan Ekman;Mats Wedin

  • A revised generic classification of the jelly lichens, Collemataceae

    Monica Andrea Garcia Otalora;Per M. Jørgensen;Mats Wedin

  • The limitations of ancestral state reconstruction and the evolution of the ascus in the Lecanorales (lichenized Ascomycota).

    Stefan Ekman;Stefan Ekman;Heidi Lie Andersen;Heidi Lie Andersen;Mats Wedin

  • Preserving accuracy in GenBank

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

  • Evolution of complex symbiotic relationships in a morphologically derived family of lichen-forming fungi

    Pradeep K Divakar;Ana Crespo;Mats Wedin;Steven D Leavitt

  • Endophytic fungi in European aspen ( Populus tremula ) leaves—diversity, detection, and a suggested correlation with herbivory resistance

    Benedicte R. Albrectsen;Lars Björkén;Akkamahadevi Varad;Åsa Hagner;Åsa Hagner

  • Saprotrophy and lichenization as options for the same fungal species on different substrata: environmental plasticity and fungal lifestyles in the Stictis–Conotrema complex

    Mats Wedin;Heidi Döring;Gunnar Gilenstam

  • Phylogenetic relationships of Lecanoromycetes ( Ascomycota ) as revealed by analyses of mtSSU and nLSU rDNA sequence data

    Mats Wedin;Elisabeth Wiklund;Anna Crewe;Heidi Döring

  • Improved appreciation of the functioning and importance of biological soil crusts in Europe: the Soil Crust International Project (SCIN).

    Burkhard Büdel;Claudia Colesie;T. G. Allan Green;T. G. Allan Green;Martin Grube

  • Phylogenetic relationships of coprophilous Pleosporales (Dothideomycetes, Ascomycota). and the classification of some bitunicate taxa of unknown position

    Åsa Kruys;Ove E. Eriksson;Mats Wedin

  • MYCOBIONT-SPECIFIC PCR PRIMERS FOR THE AMPLIFICATION OF NUCLEAR ITS AND LSU rDNA FROM LICHENIZED ASCOMYCETES

    Heidi Döring;Philippe Clerc;Martin Grube;Mats Wedin

  • Major clades and phylogenetic relationships between lichenized and non-lichenized lineages in Ostropales (Ascomycota: Lecanoromycetes)

    Elisabeth Baloch;Elisabeth Baloch;Robert Lücking;H. Thorsten Lumbsch;Mats Wedin

Frequent Co-Authors

H. Thorsten Lumbsch
H. Thorsten Lumbsch Field Museum of Natural History
Martin Grube
Martin Grube University of Graz
Imke Schmitt
Imke Schmitt Goethe University Frankfurt
Pradeep K. Divakar
Pradeep K. Divakar Complutense University of Madrid
Ana Crespo
Ana Crespo Complutense University of Madrid
Sergio Pérez-Ortega
Sergio Pérez-Ortega Real Jardín Botánico
Steven D. Leavitt
Steven D. Leavitt Brigham Young University
Robert Lücking
Robert Lücking Freie Universität Berlin
David L. Hawksworth
David L. Hawksworth Royal Botanic Gardens
Damien Ertz
Damien Ertz Meise Botanic Garden

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