Fungal Ecology and Systematics
The University of Western Ontario

Marek, S.M., K. Hansen, M. Romanish, and R.G. Thorn. 2009. Molecular systematics of the cotton root rot pathogen, Phymatotrichopsis omnivora. Persoonia 22: 63-74.

Koziak, A.T.E., F. Chavarria, J. Diaz, M. Garcia, D.H. Janzen and R.G. Thorn. 2007. Nematoctonus (anamorphic Pleurotaceae) in Costa Rica. Can. J. Bot 85 (8): 749-761.

Koziak, A.T.E., K.C. Cheng and R.G. Thorn. 2007. Phylogenetic analyses of Nematoctonus and Hohenbuehelia (Pleurotaceae). Can. J. Bot 85 (8): 762-773.

Hibbett, D. S., Binder, M., Bischoff, J. F., Blackwell, M., Cannon, P. F., Eriksson, O., Huhndorf, S., James, T., Kirk, P. M., Lôcking, R., Lumbsch, T., Lutzoni, F., Matheny, P. B., Mclaughlin, D. J., Powell, M. J., Redhead, S., Schoch, C. L., Spatafora, J. W., Stalpers, J. A., Vilgalys, R., Aime, C., Aptroot, A., Bauer, R., Begerow, D., Benny, G. L., Castlebury, L. A., Crous, P. W., Dai, Y.-C., Gams, W., Griffith, G. W., Hawksworth, D., Hofstetter, V., Hosaka, K., Humber, R. A., Hyde, K., K_ljalg, U., Kurtzman, C. P., Larsson, K.-H., Lichtwardt, R., Longcore, J., Miller, A., Moncalvo, J.-M., Mozley-Standridge, S., Oberwinkler, F., Parmasto, E., Rogers, J. D., Ryvarden, L., Sampaio, J. P., Schuessler, A., Sugiyama, J., Taylor, J. W., Thorn, R. G., Tibell, L., Untereiner, W. A., Walker, C., Wang, Z., Weir, A., Weiss, M., White, M., Winka, K., Yao, Y.-J., and Zhang, N. 2007. A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the fungi. Mycol. Res. 111: 509-547.

Lynch, M.D.J. and R.G. Thorn. 2006. Diversity of basidiomycetes in Michigan agricultural soils. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72 (11): 7050-7056 (and cover).

Thorn, R. G., J.-M. Moncalvo, S. A. Redhead, D. J. Lodge, and M. P. Martin. 2005. A new poroid species of Resupinatus from Puerto Rico, with a reassessment of the cyphelloid genus Stigmatolemma . Mycologia 97: 1140-1151.

Moncalvo, J.-M., R. Vilgalys, S.A. Redhead, J.E. Johnson, T.Y. James, M.C. Aime, V. Hofstetter, S.J.W., Verduin, E. Larsson, T.J. Baroni, R.G. Thorn, S. Jacobsson, H. Clemencon, and O.K. Miller, Jr. 2002. One hundred and seventeen clades of agarics. Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution 23: 357-400.

Caesar-TonThat, T.C., W.L. Shelver, R.G. Thorn and V.L. Cochran. 2001. Generation of antibodies for soil-aggregating basidiomycete detection as an early indicator of trends in soil quality. Appl. Soil Ecol. 18: 99-116.

Thorn, R.G. 2000. Some polypores misclassified in Piptoporus . Karstenia 40: 181-187.

Thorn, R.G., J.-M. Moncalvo, R. Vilgalys and C.A. Reddy. 2000. Phylogenetic analyses and the distribution of nematophagy support a monophyletic Pleurotaceae within the polyphyletic pleurotoid-lentinoid fungi. Mycologia 92: 141-152.

Thorn, R.G. 2009. Soil fungi. In: Handbook of Soil Science, 2nd ed. (in press).

Thorn, R.G. and M.D.J. Lynch. 2007. Fungi and eukaryotic algae, In: Soil Microbiology and Biochemistry, 3rd ed. E.A. Paul, ed. Elsevier Academic, Amsterdam, pp. 145-162.

Thorn, R. G., J. Scott, and M. A. Lachance. 2007. Methods for studying terrestrial fungal ecology and diversity, In: Methods for General and Molecular Microbiology, 3rd ed., C. A. Reddy, T. J. Beveridge, J. A. Breznak, G. A. Marzluf, T. M. Schmidt, and L. R. Snyder, eds. ASM Press, Washington, DC., pp. 929-951.

Bills, G.F., M. Christensen, M. Powell and G. Thorn. 2004. Saprobic soil fungi, In: Biodiversity of Fungi: inventory and monitoring methods, G.M. Mueller, G.F. Bills and M.S. Foster, eds. Elsevier Academic Press, Amsterdam, pp. 271-302.

Thorn, R.G. 2002. Soil fungi: nature's nutritional network, In: Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology, G. Bitton, ed. John Wiley, New York, pp. 2910-2918.

Hibbett, D.S. and R.G. Thorn. 2001. Homobasidiomycetes, In: The Mycota, vol. VII Part B, D.J. McLaughlin, E.G. McLaughlin, and P.A. Lemke, eds. Springer-Verlag, New York, pp. 121-168.

Thorn, R.G., M. Scholler, and W. Gams. 2009. We accept evidence, but not conjecture, regarding fossil fungi. Mycological Research 113: 276-277.

Thorn, R.G., M. Scholler, and W. Gams. 2008. Have carnivorous fungi been found in Cretaceous amber? Mycological Research 112: 611-612.

Raghukumar, C., T. M. D'Souza, R. G. Thorn and C. A. Reddy. 2002. Novel white-rot lignin-modifying fungus Flavodon flavus and a process for removing dye from dye containing water or soil using the fungus. U.S patent 6,395,534, May 28, 2002.

Bahnmann, B.D. and R.G. Thorn. 2008. A second look at diversity of Agaricomycetes in soils of four agricultural treatments in Michigan. Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Spring Workshop in Mycology, Toronto, Apr. 26.

Lynch, M.D.J. and R.G. Thorn. 2008. Diversity of basidiomycetes in Michigan agricultural soils under various tillage intensities. Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Spring Workshop in Mycology, Toronto, Apr. 26.

Rivera, K., Urb, M., Thorn, R. G., Louis-Seize, G., and Seifert, K. A. 2007. An undescribed species of Penicillium from Costa Rican caterpillars (poster). Mycological Society of America annual meetings, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Aug. 6.

Bahnmann, B.D. and R.G. Thorn. 2006. Basidiomycete communities in undisturbed and chronically disturbed soils (poster). 6th U.S. N.S.F. Long-Term Ecological Research All-Scientists Meeting, Estes Park, Colorado, Sept. 20-24.

Vranic, B. and R.G. Thorn. 2006. Community structure of soil saprotrophic basidiomycetes in the Kellogg Biological Station in Michigan (poster). 6th U.S. N.S.F. Long-Term Ecological Research All-Scientists Meeting, Estes Park, Colorado, Sept. 20-24.

Urb, M. and R.G. Thorn. 2005. Fungi associated with caterpillars in Costa Rica, Great Lakes Mycology Workshop, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Feb 19.

Koziak, A. and R.G. Thorn. 2005. Hohenbuehelia and Nematoctonus in Costa Rica, Great Lakes Mycology Workshop, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Feb 19.

Lynch, M.D. and R.G. Thorn. 2005. Species richness and composition of soil Basidiomycota, Great Lakes Mycology Workshop, McMaster University, Hamilton ON, Feb 19.

Lynch, M.D. and R.G. Thorn. 2004. Impacts of tillage on diversity of soil basidiomycetes (poster), KBS LTER All Scientists Meeting, East Lansing, MI, Oct. 8.

R.G. Thorn (presenter), A. Koziak, P. Law, T.S. Rittau, F. Chavarria, J. Diaz, M. Garcia, and D.H. Janzen. 2004. Diversity and biogeography of Costa Rican nematophagous fungi. Invited talk in Comparative microbial diversity and biogeography symposium chaired by J.M. Tiedje, International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME X) in Cancun, Mexico, August 24.

Lynch, M.D. and R.G. Thorn. 2003. Impacts of tillage on diversity of soil basidiomycetes (poster), US-NSF LTER All Scientists Meeting, Seattle, WA, Sept. 20.

Thorn, R.G. 2002. Introductions, and a phylogenetic overview of nematode-destroying fungi, in Taxonomy, phylogeny and ecology of nematode-destroying fungi, R.G. Thorn and M. Scholler, co-chairs. Seventh International Mycology Congress, Oslo, Norway, Aug. 15.

Thorn, R.G. (presenter), M. Binder and D.S. Hibbett. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships in Homobasidiomycetes, invited lead speaker in Phylogenetic relationships in Homobasidiomycetes symposium, N. Hallenberg, chair. Seventh International Mycology Congress, Oslo, Norway, Aug. 14.

Thorn, R.G. 2000. A home at last: phylogenetic placement of the Cotton Root Rot pathogen, Phymatotrichopsis omnivora (poster), Mycological Society of America annual meetings, Burlington, Vermont, Aug. 2.