Yen-Wen Wang
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- Invasive Californian death caps develop mushrooms unisexually and bisexually.Wang YW, McKeon MC, Elmore H, Hess J, Golan J, Gage H, Mao W, Harrow L, Gonçalves SC, Hull CM, Pringle A. Invasive Californian death caps develop mushrooms unisexually and bisexually. Nat Commun 2023, 14: 6560. PMID: 37875491, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42317-z.
- De Novo Gene Birth, Horizontal Gene Transfer, and Gene Duplication as Sources of New Gene Families Associated with the Origin of Symbiosis in Amanita.Wang YW, Hess J, Slot JC, Pringle A. De Novo Gene Birth, Horizontal Gene Transfer, and Gene Duplication as Sources of New Gene Families Associated with the Origin of Symbiosis in Amanita. Genome Biol Evol 2020, 12: 2168-2182. PMID: 32926145, DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaa193.
- KIMGENS: a novel method to estimate kinship in organisms with mixed haploid diploid genetic systems robust to population structure.Wang YW, Ané C. KIMGENS: a novel method to estimate kinship in organisms with mixed haploid diploid genetic systems robust to population structure. Bioinformatics 2022, 38: 3044-3050. PMID: 35482481, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac293.
- Uniparental Inheritance and Recombination as Strategies to Avoid Competition and Combat Muller's Ratchet among Mitochondria in Natural Populations of the Fungus Amanita phalloides.Wang YW, Elmore H, Pringle A. Uniparental Inheritance and Recombination as Strategies to Avoid Competition and Combat Muller's Ratchet among Mitochondria in Natural Populations of the Fungus Amanita phalloides. J Fungi (Basel) 2023, 9 PMID: 37108928, DOI: 10.3390/jof9040476.
- Origins of lineage‐specific elements via gene duplication, relocation, and regional rearrangement in Neurospora crassaWang Z, Wang Y, Kasuga T, Hassler H, Lopez‐Giraldez F, Dong C, Yarden O, Townsend J. Origins of lineage‐specific elements via gene duplication, relocation, and regional rearrangement in Neurospora crassa. Molecular Ecology 2023 PMID: 37843462, DOI: 10.1111/mec.17168.
- Pangenomics of the death cap mushroom Amanita phalloides, and of Agaricales, reveals dynamic evolution of toxin genes in an invasive range.Drott MT, Park SC, Wang YW, Harrow L, Keller NP, Pringle A. Pangenomics of the death cap mushroom Amanita phalloides, and of Agaricales, reveals dynamic evolution of toxin genes in an invasive range. ISME J 2023, 17: 1236-1246. PMID: 37221394, DOI: 10.1038/s41396-023-01432-x.
- Evolutionary history of plant hosts and fungal symbionts predicts the strength of mycorrhizal mutualism.Hoeksema JD, Bever JD, Chakraborty S, Chaudhary VB, Gardes M, Gehring CA, Hart MM, Housworth EA, Kaonongbua W, Klironomos JN, Lajeunesse MJ, Meadow J, Milligan BG, Piculell BJ, Pringle A, Rúa MA, Umbanhowar J, Viechtbauer W, Wang YW, Wilson GWT, Zee PC. Evolutionary history of plant hosts and fungal symbionts predicts the strength of mycorrhizal mutualism. Commun Biol 2018, 1: 116. PMID: 30271996, DOI: 10.1038/s42003-018-0120-9.
- Evaluation of an Epitypified Ophiocordyceps formosana (Cordyceps s.l.) for Its Pharmacological Potential.Wang YW, Hong TW, Tai YL, Wang YJ, Tsai SH, Lien PT, Chou TH, Lai JY, Chu R, Ding ST, Irie K, Li TK, Tzean SS, Shen TL. Evaluation of an Epitypified Ophiocordyceps formosana (Cordyceps s.l.) for Its Pharmacological Potential. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 2015, 2015: 189891. PMID: 26451152, DOI: 10.1155/2015/189891.
- Lineage-specific genes are clustered with HET-domain genes and respond to environmental and genetic manipulations regulating reproduction in NeurosporaWang Z, Wang Y, Kasuga T, Lopez-Giraldez F, Zhang Y, Zhang Z, Wang Y, Dong C, Sil A, Trail F, Yarden O, Townsend J. Lineage-specific genes are clustered with HET-domain genes and respond to environmental and genetic manipulations regulating reproduction in Neurospora. PLOS Genetics 2023, 19: e1011019. PMID: 37934795, PMCID: PMC10684091, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1011019.
- Death caps (Amanita phalloides) frequently establish from sexual spores, but individuals can grow large and live for more than a decade in invaded forests.Golan J, Wang YW, Adams CA, Cross H, Elmore H, Gardes M, Gonçalves SC, Hess J, Richard F, Wolfe B, Pringle A. Death caps (Amanita phalloides) frequently establish from sexual spores, but individuals can grow large and live for more than a decade in invaded forests. New Phytol 2023 PMID: 38146206, DOI: 10.1111/nph.19483.
- The Sordariomycetes: an expanding resource with Big Data for mining in evolutionary genomics and transcriptomicsWang Z, Kim W, Wang Y, Yakubovich E, Dong C, Trail F, Townsend J, Yarden O. The Sordariomycetes: an expanding resource with Big Data for mining in evolutionary genomics and transcriptomics. Frontiers In Fungal Biology 2023, 4: 1214537. PMID: 37746130, PMCID: PMC10512317, DOI: 10.3389/ffunb.2023.1214537.
- A precise relationship among Buller's drop, ballistospore, and gill morphologies enables maximum packing of spores within gilled mushrooms.Iapichino M, Wang YW, Gentry S, Pringle A, Seminara A. A precise relationship among Buller's drop, ballistospore, and gill morphologies enables maximum packing of spores within gilled mushrooms. Mycologia 2021, 113: 300-311. PMID: 33497296, DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2020.1823175.
- Diversity and pathogenicity of Colletotrichum species causing strawberry anthracnose in Taiwan and description of a new species, Colletotrichum miaoliense sp. nov.Chung PC, Wu HY, Wang YW, Ariyawansa HA, Hu HP, Hung TH, Tzean SS, Chung CL. Diversity and pathogenicity of Colletotrichum species causing strawberry anthracnose in Taiwan and description of a new species, Colletotrichum miaoliense sp. nov. Sci Rep 2020, 10: 14664. PMID: 32887909, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-70878-2.