Page created December 2017. Updated: February 2018, September 2019 (in progress)

General Fungi taxonomy / phylogeny

A phylogenetic framework for the kingdom Fungi based on 18S rRNA gene sequences
– Pablo Yarza – Marine Genomics – December 2017

Novel ITS1 Fungal Primers for Characterization of the Mycobiome – Mykhaylo Usyk – mSphere – December 2017

Next-Generation Sequencing in the Mycology Lab – Jan Zoll – Current Fungal Infection Reports – June 2016

Human mycobiome

Contribution of fungal microbiome to intestinal physiology, early-life immune development and mucosal inflammation in mice –
Erik van Tilburg Bernardes et al – BioRxiv [Preprint] – Oct 2019

The fungal mycobiome promotes pancreatic oncogenesis via activation of MBL – Berk Ayukut et al – Nature – Oct. 2019

Fungi form interkingdom microbial communities in the primordial human gut that develop with gestational age – Kent A. Willis et al. – FASEB J. – Sept. 2019

Review: Gut Mycobiota in Immunity and Inflammatory Disease – Xin V. Li – Immunity – June 2019

Mycobiome Profiles in Breast Milk from Healthy Women Depend on Mode of Delivery, Geographic Location, and Interaction with Bacteria – Alba Boix-Amorós et al. – Applied and Environmental Microbiology – March 2019

Cervicovaginal Fungi and Bacteria Associated With Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia and High-Risk Human Papillomavirus Infections in a Hispanic Population – Filipa Godoy-Vitorino et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology – October 2018

Associations between infant fungal and bacterial dysbiosis and childhood atopic wheeze in a nonindustrialized setting – Marie-Claire Arrieta et al. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology – August 2018

Development of the Human Mycobiome over the First Month of Life and across Body Sites – Tonya L. Ward et al. – mSystems – June 2018

Fungal Diversity of Human Gut Microbiota Among Eutrophic, Overweight, and Obese Individuals Based on Aerobic Culture-Dependent Approach – Francis M. Borges – Current Microbiology – January 2018

Fungi stabilize connectivity in the lung and skin microbial ecosystems – Laura Tipton – Microbiome – January 2018

The gut mycobiome of the Human Microbiome Project healthy cohort – Andrea K. Nash et al. – Microbiome – November 2017

Early gut mycobiota and mother-offspring transfer – Kasper Schei et al. -Microbiome – July 2017

Review: Forgotten fungi—the gut mycobiome in human health and disease – Chloe E. Huseyin – FEMS Microbiology Reviews – April 2017

Editorial: The emerging importance and challenges of the human mycobiome – Heidi H. Kong – Virulence – January 2017

Obesity changes the human gut mycobiome – M. Mar Rodríguez – Scientific Reports – October 2015

The lung mycobiome: an emerging field of the human respiratory microbiome – Linh D. N. Nguyen – Frontiers in Microbiology – February 2015

Analysis of the nasal vestibule mycobiome in patients with allergic rhinitis –
Won Hee Jung – Mycoses – February 2015

Review: Digestive tract mycobiota: A source of infection – Médecine et Maladies Infectieuses – N. Gouba – January 2015

Review: The Human Mycobiome – Patrick C. Seed – Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine – November 2014

Gut Dysbiosis Promotes M2 Macrophage Polarization and Allergic Airway Inflammation via Fungi-Induced PGE₂ – Yun-Gi Kim et al. Cell Host Microbe – January 2014

Topographic diversity of fungal and bacterial communities in human skin – Keisha Findley – Nature – May 2013

Biomedical research

Malassezia Is Associated with Crohn’s Disease and Exacerbates Colitis in Mouse Models – Jose J. Limoncellos et al. – Cell Host Microbe – March 2019

Expansion of commensal fungus Wallemia mellicola in the gastrointestinal mycobiota enhances the severity of allergic airway disease in mice – Joseph H. Skalski et al. – PLoS Pathogens – September 2018

Animal mycobiome

(Abstract) Diversity of the Cloacal Mycobiome of the Juvenile Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) – Megan Gerber – October 2017

Indoor fungi

Variability of indoor fungal microbiome of green and non-green low-income homes in Cincinnati, Ohio – Kanistha Coombs – Science of the Total Environment – January 2018

Mycobiome of the Bat White Nose Syndrome Affected Caves and Mines Reveals Diversity of Fungi and Local Adaptation by the Fungal Pathogen Pseudogymnoascus (Geomyces) destructans – Tao Zhang – PLOS ONE – September 2014

Plant/root and soil mycobiome

Mycobiomes of tomato plants with vine decline – David Johnston-Monje – Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology – June 2017

Advances in Eco-Efficient Agriculture: The Plant-Soil Mycobiome – Marcela Claudia Pagano – Agriculture – February 2017

Review: Dimensions of biodiversity in the Earth mycobiome – Kabir G. Peay – Nature Reviews Microbiology – June 2016

Perspective: Disentangling global soil fungal diversity – David A. Wardle – Science – November 2014

Global diversity and geography of soil fungi – Leho Tedersoo – Science – November 2014

Endemism and functional convergence across the North American soil mycobiome – Jennifer M. Talbot – PNAS – April 2014

Population dynamics

Fungal networks shape dynamics of bacterial dispersal and community assembly in cheese rind microbiomes – Yuanchen Zhang et al. – Nature Communications – January 2018

Human gut Bacteroidetes can utilize yeast mannan through a selfish mechanism – Fiona Cuskin et al. – Nature – January 2015

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