The peer-reviewed publications below from members of the International Suillus Consortium are examples of how we can use this genus-level model system to build our understanding of systematics, ecology, evolution, and genomics from a fungal perspective.
Ke Y-H, Branco S, Bazzicalupo AL, Nguyen NH, Liao HL, Kennedy P, Bruns TD, Kuo A, LaButti K, Barry K, Grigoriev I, Vilgalys R. (2023). Genomic determination of breeding systems in basidiomycete fungi: direct evidence for balancing selection and trans-specific evolution of HD MAT genes between sister genera of suilloid fungi. Genetics, Apr 18:iyad069.
Branco S, Schauster A, Liao H-L, Ruytinx J. (2022). Mechanisms of stress tolerance and their effects on the ecology and evolution of mycorrhizal fungi. New Phytologist, 235: 2158-2175. doi: 10.1111/nph.18308.
Erlandson S, Margis R, Ramirez A, Nguyen NH, Lofgren L, Liao H-L, Vilgalys R, Kennedy P, Peay K. (2022). Transcriptional acclimation and spatial differentiation characterize drought response by the ectomycorrhizal fungus Suillus pungens. New Phytologist, 234:1910–1913. DOI: 10.1111/nph.17816.
Perez-Pazos E, Certano A, Gagne J, Lebeuf R, Siegel N, Nguyen NH, Peter Kennedy. (2021). The slippery nature of ectomycorrhizal host specificity: Suillus fungi associated with novel pinoid (Picea) and abietoid (Abies) hosts. Mycologia, 113:891-901. doi: 10.1080/00275514.2021.1921525.
Lofgren L, Nguyen NH, Vilgalys R, Ruytinx J, Liao H-L, Branco S, Kuo A, LaButti K, Lipzen Anna, Andreopoulos W, Pangilinan J, Riley R, Hundley H, Na H, Barry K, Grigoriev I, Stajich J, Kennedy P. (2021). Comparative genomics reveals dynamic genome evolution in host specialist ectomycorrhizal fungi. New Phytologist 230:774-792. DOI: 10.1111/nph.17160.
Kennedy P, Gagne J*, Pérez PE, Lofgren LA, Nguyen NH. (2020). Does fungal competitive ability explain host specificity or rarity in ectomycorrhizal symbioses? PLoS ONE, 15:e0234099. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0234099.
Bazzicalupo A, Ruytinx J, Ke Y-H, Coninx L, Colpaert J, Nguyen NH, Vilgalys R, Branco S. (2020). Fungal heavy metal adaptation through single nucleotide polymorphisms and copy-number variation. Molecular Ecology 29:4157-4169. DOI:10.1111/mec.15618.
Lofgren L, Nguyen NH, Kennedy P. (2018). Ectomycorrhizal host specificity in a changing world: can legacy effects explain anomalous current associations? New Phytologist, 220:1273-1284. DOI: 10.1111/nph.15008.
Branco S, Bi K, Liao H-L, Gladieux P, Badouin H, Ellison CE, Nguyen NH, Vilgalys R, Peay KG, Taylor JW, Bruns TD. (2017). Continental-level population differentiation and environmental adaptation in the mushroom Suillus brevipes. Molecular Ecology. Molecular Ecology 26:2063–2076. DOI: 10.1111/mec.13892.
Nguyen NH, Vellinga EC, Bruns TD, Kennedy PG. (2016). Phylogenetic assessment of global Suillus ITS sequences supports morphologically defined species and reveals synonymous and undescribed taxa. Mycologia 108:1216-1228. DOI: 10.3852/16-106.