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2023

Shahrtash M, Brown SP (2023). Interactions between fungal endophytes and pathogens isolated from the invasive plant kudzu (Puerarua montana var. lobata), Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection (in press) ~ DOI:10.1080/03235408.2023.2178055

Brown SP, Clark SL, Ford E, Mirza N, *Odeh A, Schlarbaum SE, Jumpponen A, Biard R (2023). Convergent shifts in soil fungal communities assocatied with Fagaceae reforestation in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Forest Ecology and Management 531: 120805 ~ DOI:10.1016/j.foreco.2023.120805

2022

*James JJ, Bach EM, Baker K, Barver NA, Buck R, Shahrtash M, Brown SP (2022). Herbicide control of the invasive Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) does not alter soil microbial communities or activity. Ecological Solutions and Evidence 3: e12157 ~ DOI: 10.1002/2688-8319.12157

Brown SP, Clark SL, Ford E, Jumpponen A, Saxton AM, Schlarbaum SE, Baird R (2022). Comparisons of interspecies field performance of Fagaceae (Castanea and Quercus) planted in the southeastern United States with attention to soil fungal impacts on plant performance. Forest Ecology and Management 525: 120569 ~ DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120569

Tucker AW, Brown SP (2022). Sampling a gradient of red snow algae bloom density reveals novel connections between microbial communities and environmental features. Scientific Reports 12: 10536 ~ DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-13914-7

Shor EK, Brown SP, Freeman DA (2022). Bacteria and bellicosity: photoperiodic shifts in gut microbiota drive seasonal aggressive behavior in male Siberian hamsters. Journal of Bioligical Rhythms 37: 296-309 ~ DOI: 10.1177/07487304221092105

Fox A, Sikes BA, Brown SP, Cripps CL, Glassman SI, Hughes K, Semenova-Nelsen T, Jumpponen A (2022). Fire as a driver of fungal diveristy - A systhesis of current knowledge. Mycologia 114: 215-241 ~ DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2021.2024422

Weaver MA, Mirza N, Mandel JR, Boyette CD, Brown SP (2022). Whole-genome sequence and draft assembly of the biocontrol fungal pathogen Albifimbria verrucaria CABI-IMI 368023. Microbiology Resources Announcements 11: e00909-21 ~ DOI: 10.1128/MRA.00909-21

Brown, S.P., Shahrtash, M., Tucker, A.E., Knoepp, J., Stokes, C.E., Baird, R. (2022). Seasonal disconnects between saprobic and mycorrhizal sporocarp communities in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Fungal Ecology 55: 101125 ~ DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2021.101125

2021

Weaver, M.A., Hoagland, R.E., Boyette, C.D., Brown, S.P. (2021). Taxonomic evaluation of a bioherbicidal isolate of Albifimbria verrucaria, formerly Myrothecium verrucaria. Journal of Fungi 7: 694 ~ DOI: 10.3390/jof7090694

Shahrtash, M., Brown, S.P. (2021). A path forward: promoting microbial-based methods in the control of invasive plant species. Plants 10: 932 ~ DOI: 10.3390/plants10050943

Brown, S.P., *Brodgen, M., *Cortes, C., Tucker, A.E., VandeVoort, A.R., Snyder, B.A. (2021). Investigating the effects of nitrogen deposition and substrates on the microbiome and mycobiome of the millipede Cherokia georgiana georgiana (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). Soil Biology and Biochemistry 159: 108285 ~ DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108285

2020

Põlme, S., Abarenkov, K., Nilsson, R.H., Lindahl, B.D., Clemmensen, K., Kauserud, H., Nguyen, N., Kjoller, R., Bates, S.T., Baldrian, P., Guldberg Frøslev, T., Adojaan, K., Vizzini, A., Suija, A., Pister, D., Baral, H., Järv, H., Madrid, H., Nordén, J., Liu, J., Pawlowska, J., Põldmaa, K., Pärtel, K., Runnel, K., Hansen, K., Larsson, K., Hyde, K.D., Sandoval-Denis, M., Smith, M.E., Toome-Heller, M., Wijayawardene, N.N., Menolli Jr, N.N., Reynolds, N.K., Drenkhan, R., Maharachchikumbura, S.S.N., Gibertoni, T.B., Læssøe, T., Davis, W., Tokarev, Y., Corrales, A., Soares, A.M., Agan, A., Reis Machado, A., Argüelles-Moyao, A., Detheridge, A., de Meiras-Ottoni, A., Verbeken, A., Kumar Dutta, A., Cui, B., Pradeep, C.K., Marín, C., Stanton, D., Gohar, D., Wanasinghe, D.N., Otsing, E., Aslani, F., Griith, G.W., Thorsten Lumbsch, H., Grossart, H., Masigol, H., Timling, I., Hiiesalu, I., Oja, J., Kupagme, J.Y., Geml, J., Alvarez Manjarrez, J., Ilves, K., Loit, K., Adamson, K., Nara, K., Küngas, K., Rojas-Jimenez, K., Bitenieks, K., Irinyi, L., Nagy, L., Soonvald, L., Zhou, L., Wagner, L., Aime, M.C., Öpik, M., Mujica, M.I., Metsoja, M., Ryberg, M., Vasar, M., Murata, M., Nelsen, M.P., Cleary, M., Samarakoon, M.C., Doilom, M., Bahram, M., Hagh-Doust, N., Dulya, O., Johnston, P., Kohout, P., Chen, Q., Tian, Q., Nandi, R., Amiri, R., Hansika Perera, R., dos Santos Chikowski, R., Mendes-Alvarenga, R.L., Garibay Orijel, R., Gielen, R., Phookamsak, R., Jayawardena, R.S., Rahimlou, S., Karunarathna, S.C., Tibpromma, S., Brown, S.P., Sepp, S., Mundra, S., Luo, Z., Bose, T., Vahter, T., Netherway, T., Yang, T., May, T., Varga, T., Li, W., Matos Coimbra, V.R., Targino de Oliveira, V.R., de Lima, V.X., Mikryukov, V.S., Lu, Y., Matsuda, Y., Miyamoto, Y., Kõljalg, U., Tedersoo, L. (2020). FungalTraits: a user-friendly traits database of fungi and fungus-like stramenopiles. Fungal Diversity 105: 1-16. ~ DOI: 10.1007/s13225-020-00466-2

Brown, S.P., Grillo, M.A., Podowski, J.C., and Heath, K.D. (2020). Soil origin and plant genotype structure distinct microbiome compartments in the model legume Medicago truncatula. Microbiome 8: 139. ~ DOI: 10.1186/s40168-030-00915-9

Shor, E.K., Brown, S.P., and Freeman, D.A. (2020). A novel role for the pineal gland: regulating seasonal shifts in the gut microbiota if Siberian hamsters. Journal of Pineal Research 69: e12696. ~ DOI: 10.1111/jpi.12696

Weeks, D.M., Parris, M.J., and Brown, S.P. (2020). Recovery and resiliency of skin microbial communities on the southern leopard frog (Lithobates sphenocephalus) following two biotic disturbances. Animal Microbiome 2: 35. ~ DOI: 10.1186/s42523-020-00053-5

Brown, S.P., and Tucker A.E (2020). Distribution and biogeography of Sanguina snow algae: Fine-scale sequence analyses reveal previously unknown population stricture. Ecology and Evolution 10: 11352-11361. ~ DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6772

Ahamed, T., Brown, S.P., and Salehi M (2020). Investigate the role of biofilm and water chemistry on lead deposition onto and release from polyethylene: an implication for potable water pipes. Journal of Hazardous Materials 400: 123253 ~ DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.123253

Seballos, R.C., Wyatt, K.H., Bernot, R.J., Brown, S.P., Chandra, S., and A.R. Rober (2020). Nutrient availability and organic matter quality shape bacterial community structure in a lake biofilm. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 85: 1-18.  ~ DOI: 10.3354/ame01937

Shahrtash M., and S.P. Brown (2020). Drivers of foliar fungal endophytic communities of kudzu (Pueraria montana var. lobata) in the Southeast United States. Diversity 12: 185. ~DOI: 10.3390/d12050185

2019

Brown, S.P., Veach, A.M., Horton, J., *Ford, E., Jumpponen, A., and R. Baird (2019). Context dependent fungal and bacterial community shifts in response to recent wildfire in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Forest Ecology and Management 451: 117520 ~ DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117520

Wyatt, K.H., Seballos, R., *Shoemaker, M.N., Brown, S.P., Chandra, S., Kuehn, K.A., Rober, A.R., and S. Sadro (2019) Resource constraints highlight complex microbial interactions during lake biofilm development. Journal of Ecology 107: 2737-2746~ DOI:10.1111/1365-2745.13223

Brown, S.P. and A. Jumpponen (2019) Microbiology of snow reveals taxa-specific biogeographical structure. Microbial Ecology 77: 946-958 ~ DOI:10.1007/s00248-019-01357-z

Jones, J.M., Heath, K.D., Ferrer, A., Brown, S.P., Canam, T., and J.W. Dalling (2019) Wood decomposition in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in the tropics: contrasting biotic and abiotic processes. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 95: fiy223 ~ DOI:10.1093/femsec/fiy223

2018

Brown, S.P., Leopold, D.R., and P.E. Busby (2018) Protocols for investigating the leaf mycobiome using high-throughput DNA sequencing. In: Ma, W. and Wolpert, T. (eds.), Plant Pathogenic Fungi and Oomycetes: Methods and Protocols vol 1848. Humana Press, New York, NY, USA pp 39-51. ~ DOI:10.1007/978-1-4939-8724-5_4

2016

Veach, A.M., Stegen, J., Brown, S.P., Dodds, W.K., and A. Jumpponen (2016) Spatial and successional dynamics of microbial biofilm communities in a grassland stream ecosystem. Molecular Ecology 25: 4674-4688. ~ DOI:10.1111/mec.13784

Brown, S.P., Ungerer, M.C. and A. Jumpponen. (2016) A community of clones: snow algae are diverse communities of spatially structured clones. International Journal of Plant Sciences 177: 432-439. ~ DOI:10.1086/686019

Brown, S.P., A. Ferrer, J. Dalling, and K.D. Heath. (2016) Don’t put all your eggs in one basket: a cost-effective and powerful method to optimize primer choice for rRNA environmental community analyses using the Fluidigm Access Array. Molecular Ecology Resources 16: 946- 956. ~ DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12507

2015

Brown, S.P. and A. Jumpponen. (2015) Phylogenetic diversity analyses reveal disparity between fungal and bacterial communities during microbial primary succession. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 89: 52-60. ~ DOI:10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.06.025

Jumpponen, A., Brown, S.P., Trappe, J.M., Cázares, E., and R. Strömmer. (2015) Analyses of sporocarps, morphotyped ectomycorrhizae, environmental ITS and LSU sequences identify common genera that occur at a periglacial site. Journal of Fungi 1: 76-93. ~ DOI:10.3390/jof1010076

Brown, S.P., Olson, B.J.S.C., and A. Jumpponen (2015) Fungi and algae co-occur in snow: an issue of shared habitat of algal facilitation of heterotrophs? Alpine, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 47: 729-749. ~ DOI:10.1675/AAAR0014-071

Oliver, A.K., Brown, S.P., Callaham Jr., M.A., and A. Jumpponen (2015) Polymerase matters: non-proofreading enzymes inflate richness estimates by up to 15%. Fungal Ecology 15: 86-89. ~ DOI:10.1016/j.funeco.2015.03.003

Saravesi, K., Aikio, S., Wäli, P., Ruotsalainen, A.L., Kaukonen, M., Huusko K., Suokas, M., Brown, S.P., Jumpponen, A., Tuomi J., and A., Markkola. (2015) Moth outbreaks alter root-associated fungal communities in subarctic mountain birch forests. Microbial Ecology 69: 788-797. ~ DOI:10.1007/s00248-015-0577-8

Brown, S.P., Veach, A.M., Rigdon-Huss, A.R., Grond, K., *Lickteig, S.K., *Lothamer, K., Oliver, A.K., and A. Jumpponen (2015) Scraping the bottom of the barrel: are rare high-throughput sequences artifacts? Fungal Ecology 13: 221-225. ~ DOI:10.1046/j.funeco.2014.08.006

2014

Jumpponen, A. and S.P. Brown (2014) The rich and the sensitive: diverse fungal communities change functionally with the warming Arctic. Molecular Ecology 23: 3127-3129. ~ DOI:10.0000/mec.12805

Brown, S.P., Rigdon-Huss, A.R. and A. Jumpponen (2014) Analyses of ITS and LSU gene regions provide congruent results on fungal community responses. Fungal Ecology 9: 65-68. ~ DOI:10.1016/j.funeco.2014.02.002

*Lothamer, K.L., Brown, S.P., Mattox, J.D. and A. Jumpponen (2014) Comparison of root-associated communities of native and non-native ectomycorrhizal hosts in an urban landscape. Mycorrhiza 24: 267-280. ~ DOI:10.1007/s00572-013-0539-2

Brown, S. P. and A. Jumpponen (2014) Contrasting primary successional trajectories of fungi and bacteria in retreating glacier soils. Molecular Ecology 23: 481-497. ~ DOI:10.1111/mec.12487

2013

Brown, S.P., Callaham Jr, M.A., Oliver, A.K. and A. Jumpponen (2013) Deep Ion Torrent sequencing identifies soil fungal community shifts after frequent prescribed fires in a southeastern US forest ecosystem.  FEMS Microbiology Ecology 86: 557-566. ~ DOI:10.1111/1574-6941.12181

2012

Jumpponen, A., Brown, S.P., Trappe, J.M., Cázares, E., and R. Strömmer (2012) Twenty years of research on fungal-plant interactions on Lyman Glacier forefront – lessons learned and questions yet unanswered. Fungal Ecology 5(4): 430-442. ~ DOI:10.1016/j.funeco.2012.01.002