Search Results - "Hood, M. E."

Sex, outcrossing and mating types: unsolved questions in fungi and beyond by BILLIARD, S., LÓPEZ‐VILLAVICENCIO, M., HOOD, M. E., GIRAUD, T.

“…Variability in the way organisms reproduce raises numerous, and still unsolved, questions in evolutionary biology. In this study, we emphasize that fungi…”
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The population biology of fungal invasions by Gladieux, P., Feurtey, A., Hood, M. E., Snirc, A., Clavel, J., Dutech, C., Roy, M., Giraud, T.

“…Fungal invasions are increasingly recognized as a significant component of global changes, threatening ecosystem health and damaging food production. Invasive…”
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Cospeciation vs host-shift speciation: methods for testing, evidence from natural associations and relation to coevolution by Vienne, D. M., Refrégier, G., López‐Villavicencio, M., Tellier, A., Hood, M. E., Giraud, T.

“…Hosts and their symbionts are involved in intimate physiological and ecological interactions. The impact of these interactions on the evolution of each partner…”
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Dynamics of Multiple Infection and Within‐Host Competition by the Anther‐Smut Pathogen by Hood, M. E.

“…Infection of one host by multiple pathogen genotypes represents an important area of pathogen ecology and evolution that lacks a broad empirical foundation…”
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Phylogenetic determinants of potential host shifts in fungal pathogens by De VIENNE, D. M., HOOD, M. E., GIRAUD, T.

“…Understanding what determines the host range of pathogens and the potential for host shifts is of critical importance to controlling their introductions into…”
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Pathogen Relatedness Affects the Prevalence of Within‐Host Competition by Koskella, B., Giraud, T., Hood, M. E.

“…Although the evolutionary consequences of within‐host competition among pathogens have been examined extensively, there exists a critical gap in our…”
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Maximized virulence in a sterilizing pathogen: the anther-smut fungus and its co-evolved hosts by SLOAN, D.B, GIRAUD, T, HOOD, M.E

“…Host sterilization is a common feature of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Because host reproductive failure may free up resources for pathogen…”
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Hybrid sterility and inviability in the parasitic fungal species complex Microbotryum by DE VIENNE, D.M, REFRÉGIER, G, HOOD, M.E, GUIGUE, A, DEVIER, B, VERCKEN, E, SMADJA, C, DESEILLE, A, GIRAUD, T

“…Microbotryum violaceum, the anther-smut fungus, forms a complex of sibling species which specialize on different plants. Previous studies have shown the…”
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The anther smut disease on Gypsophila repens: a case of parasite sub‐optimal performance following a recent host shift? by LÓPEZ‐VILLAVICENCIO, M., ENJALBERT, J., HOOD, M. E., SHYKOFF, J. A., RAQUIN, C., GIRAUD, T.

“…The study of how parasites adapt to new hosts is of great importance for understanding the emergence of new diseases. Here, we report a study of the anther…”
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Evolution of uni- and bifactorial sexual compatibility systems in fungi by Nieuwenhuis, B P S, Billiard, S, Vuilleumier, S, Petit, E, Hood, M E, Giraud, T

“…Mating systems, that is, whether organisms give rise to progeny by selfing, inbreeding or outcrossing, strongly affect important ecological and evolutionary…”
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Variation in mate-recognition pheromones of the fungal genus Microbotryum by Xu, L, Petit, E, Hood, M E

“…Mate recognition is an essential life-cycle stage that exhibits strong conservation in function, whereas diversification of mating signals can contribute…”
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Variations of ƒCO2 and air-sea flux of CO2 in the Greenland Sea gyre using high-frequency time series data from CARIOCA drift buoys by Hood, E. M., Merlivat, L., Johannessen, T.

“…A 6 month, high‐frequency (hourly) time series of ƒCO2 and sea surface temperature measured by CARIOCA drift buoys in the Greenland Sea gyre is presented. The…”
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Intratetrad mating, heterozygosity, and the maintenance of deleterious alleles in Microbotryum violaceum (=Ustilago violacea) by Hood, Michael E., Antonovics, Janis

“…The mating system of Microbotryum violaceum was investigated in populations that are polymorphic for mating‐type bias, where individuals produce viable…”
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SIBLING COMPETITION ARENA: SELFING AND A COMPETITION ARENA CAN COMBINE TO CONSTITUTE A BARRIER TO GENE FLOW IN SYMPATRY by Gibson, A. K., Hood, M. E., Giraud, T.

“…Closely related species coexisting in sympatry provide critical insight into the mechanisms underlying speciation and the maintenance of genetic divergence…”
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Silene as a model system in ecology and evolution by Bernasconi, G, Antonovics, J, Biere, A, Charlesworth, D, Delph, L.F, Filatov, D, Giraud, T, Hood, M.E, Marais, G.A.B, McCauley, D, Pannell, J.R, Shykoff, J.A, Vyskot, B, Wolfe, L.M, Widmer, A

“…The genus Silene, studied by Darwin, Mendel and other early scientists, is re-emerging as a system for studying interrelated questions in ecology, evolution…”
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Short timescale variations of ƒCO2 in a North Atlantic warm-core eddy: Results from the Gas-Ex 98 carbon interface ocean atmosphere (CARIOCA) buoy data by Hood, E. M., Wanninkhof, R., Merlivat, L.

“…During a Lagrangian deliberate tracer study in the North Atlantic, the 1998 Gas Exchange Experiment, hourly measurements of wind speed, sea surface…”
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Applications of KOH-aniline blue fluorescence in the study of plant-fungal interactions by Hood, M.E. (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.), Shew, H.D

“…A KOH-aniline blue technique for fluorescent staining of fungi in association with plant tissues was developed. The technique provided rapid, simple, and…”
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Dissolved Gas Dynamics in Perennially Ice-Covered Lake Fryxell, Antarctica by Hood, E. M., Howes, B. L., Jenkins, W. J.

“…We use the concentration of noble gases (He, Ne, and Ar), helium isotopes, and tritum to characterize the mechanisms and rates of ventilation of Lake Fryxell,…”
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Primary haustorial development of Striga asiatica on host and nonhost species by Hood, M.E. (Duke University, Durham, NC.), Condon, J.M, Timko, M.P, Riopel, J.L

“…Initial interactions of Striga asiatica with a susceptible host and nonhost plants were examined by histological methods. Haustorial development was initiated…”
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Dynamic linkage relationships to the mating-type locus in automictic fungi of the genus Microbotryum by ABBATE, J.L, HOOD, M.E

“…Regions of the chromosomes determining mating compatibility in some fungi, including Microbotryum lychnidis-dioicae and Neurospora tetrasperma, exhibit…”
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