Thomas D. Bruns

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United States Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• ITS primers with enhanced specificity for basidiomycetes--application to the identification of mycorrhizae and rusts.

  M Gardes;T D Bruns

  13921
  Citations

• Towards a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of fungi

  Urmas Koljalg;Urmas Koljalg;R. Henrik Nilsson;Kessy Abarenkov;Leho Tedersoo

  3731
  Citations

• Fungal Molecular Systematics

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

  1421
  Citations

• The molecular revolution in ectomycorrhizal ecology: peeking into the black-box.

  Thomas R. Horton;Thomas D. Bruns

  1077
  Citations

• Specific amplification of 18S fungal ribosomal genes from vesicular-arbuscular endomycorrhizal fungi colonizing roots.

  L Simon;M Lalonde;T D Bruns

  995
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• 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

  950
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• Community structure of ectomycorrhizal fungi in a Pinus muricata forest: above- and below-ground views

  M. Gardes;T. D. Bruns

  846
  Citations

• Quantifying microbial communities with 454 pyrosequencing: does read abundance count?

  Anthony S. Amend;Keith A. Seifert;Thomas D. Bruns

  621
  Citations

• 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

  603
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• Endemism and functional convergence across the North American soil mycobiome

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

  564
  Citations

• Changing partners in the dark: isotopic and molecular evidence of ectomycorrhizal liaisons between forest orchids and trees.

  Martin I. Bidartondo;Bastian Burghardt;Gerhard Gebauer;Thomas D. Bruns

  525
  Citations

• Community structure of ectomycorrhizal fungi in a Pinus muricata forest: minimal overlap between the mature forest and resistant propagule communities.

  D. L. Taylor;T. D. Bruns

  501
  Citations

• Large-scale genome sequencing of mycorrhizal fungi provides insights into the early evolution of symbiotic traits.

  Shingo Miyauchi;Enikő Kiss;Alan Kuo;Elodie Drula

  469
  Citations

• Indoor fungal composition is geographically patterned and more diverse in temperate zones than in the tropics

  Anthony S. Amend;Keith A. Seifert;Robert Samson;Thomas D. Bruns

  458
  Citations

• Thoughts on the processes that maintain local species diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi

  Thomas D. Bruns

  442
  Citations

• Ancestral lineages of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomales).

  Dirk Redecker;Joseph B. Morton;Thomas D. Bruns

  435
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• Evolutionary relationships within the fungi: Analyses of nuclear small subunit rRNA sequences

  Thomas D. Bruns;Rytas Vilgalys;Susan M. Barns;Dolores Gonzalez

  433
  Citations

• A strong species–area relationship for eukaryotic soil microbes: island size matters for ectomycorrhizal fungi

  Kabir G. Peay;Thomas D. Bruns;Peter G. Kennedy;Sarah E. Bergemann

  428
  Citations

• Measuring ectomycorrhizal fungal dispersal: macroecological patterns driven by microscopic propagules.

  Kabir G. Peay;Kabir G. Peay;Max G. Schubert;Nhu H. Nguyen;Thomas D. Bruns

  427
  Citations

• Mycorrhizal colonization of Pinus muricata from resistant propagules after a stand-replacing wildfire

  J. Baar;T. R. Horton;A. M. Kretzer;T. D. Bruns

  423
  Citations

• Fungal Community Ecology: A Hybrid Beast with a Molecular Master

  Kabir G. Peay;Peter G. Kennedy;Thomas D. Bruns

  412
  Citations

• A sequence database for the identification of ectomycorrhizal basidiomycetes by phylogenetic analysis

  T. D. Bruns;T. M. Szaro;M. Gardes;K. W. Cullings

  407
  Citations

• Changing partners in the dark: isotopic and molecular evidence of ectomycorrhizal liaisons between forest

  Martin I. Bidartondol;Bastian Burghardt;Gerhard Gebauer;Thomas D. Bruns

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