2016
Climatic and evolutionary drivers of phase shifts in the plague epidemics of colonial India
Lewnard JA, Townsend JP. Climatic and evolutionary drivers of phase shifts in the plague epidemics of colonial India. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2016, 113: 14601-14608. PMID: 27791071, PMCID: PMC5187705, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1604985113.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPlague resistanceEnvironmental driversIntense natural selectionWild host populationsIntense selective pressureEvolutionary driversPossible evolutionary basisHost evolutionNatural selectionDisease resistanceEvolutionary selectionFlea population dynamicsEvolutionary basisSelective pressureEvolutionary processesPopulation dynamicsHost populationsWildlife hostsLocal persistencePlague dynamicsCommensal ratsDisease agentsPowerful insightsDisease transmissionEcology
2015
Solving the ecological puzzle of mycorrhizal associations using data from annotated collections and environmental samples – an example of saddle fungi
Hwang J, Zhao Q, Yang ZL, Wang Z, Townsend JP. Solving the ecological puzzle of mycorrhizal associations using data from annotated collections and environmental samples – an example of saddle fungi. Environmental Microbiology Reports 2015, 7: 658-667. PMID: 26033481, DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12303.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPotential plant hostsEnvironmental sequencesDiversity of ecologyEctomycorrhizal fungiEcological roleGenetic divergenceGeographic distributionUnculturable fungiPhylogenetic informativenessPlant hostsEcologyITS phylogenyITS sequencesRoot tipsEnvironmental samplesSpeciesMetagenomic investigationSequence alignmentHost typeHelvellaDiversityFungiDiversity of relationshipsSequenceSoil
2010
Northern species of earth tongue genus Thuemenidium revisited, considering morphology, ecology and molecular phylogeny
Ohenoja E, Wang Z, Townsend JP, Mitchel D, Voitk A. Northern species of earth tongue genus Thuemenidium revisited, considering morphology, ecology and molecular phylogeny. Mycologia 2010, 102: 1089-1095. PMID: 20943508, DOI: 10.3852/09-317.Peer-Reviewed Original Research