Student Publications
This series contains a wide range of published scholarship and writing by students at Clark University. Many co-authored collaborations with Clark faculty are featured.
Submissions from 2015
The spirit of the laws: The plunder of wealth in the Armenian genocide, Taner Akçam and Umit Kurt
Hindlimb muscle anatomical mechanical advantage differs among joints and stride phases in basilisk lizards, Philip J. Bergmann and Meredith Hare-Drubka
Evolution of novel wood decay mechanisms in Agaricales revealed by the genome sequences of Fistulina hepatica and Cylindrobasidium torrendii, Dimitrios Floudas, Benjamin W. Held, Robert Riley, Laszlo G. Nagy, Gage Koehler, Anthony S. Ransdell, Hina Younus, Julianna Chow, Jennifer Chiniquy, Anna Lipzen, Andrew Tritt, Hui Sun, Sajeet Haridas, Kurt LaButti, Robin A. Ohm, Ursula Kües, Robert A. Blanchette, Igor V. Grigoriev, Robert E. Minto, and David S. Hibbett
Revisiting the taxonomy of Phanerochaete (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) using a four gene dataset and extensive ITS sampling, Dimitrios Floudas and David S. Hibbett
Evolutionary relationships of Heimioporus and Boletellus (Boletales), with an emphasis on Australian taxa including new species and new combinations in Aureoboletus, Hemileccinum and Xerocomus, Roy E. Halling, Nigel Fechner, Mitchell Nuhn, Todd Osmundson, Kasem Soytong, David Arora, Manfred Binder, and David Hibbett
Synthesis of phylogeny and taxonomy into a comprehensive tree of life, Cody E. Hinchliff, Stephen A. Smith, James F. Allman, J. Gordon Burleigh, Ruchi Chaudhary, Lyndon M. Coghill, Keith A. Crandall, Jiabin Deng, Bryan T. Drew, Romina Gazis, Karl Gude, David S. Hibbett, Laura A. Katz, H. Dail Laughinghouse, Emily Jane McTavish, Peter E. Midford, Christopher L. Owen, Richard H. Ree, Jonathan A. Rees, Douglas E. Soltisc, Tiffani Williams, and Karen A. Cranston
Convergent losses of decay mechanisms and rapid turnover of symbiosis genes in mycorrhizal mutualists, Annegret Kohler, Alan Kuo, Laszlo G. Nagy, Emmanuelle Morin, Kerrie W. Barry, Francois Buscot, Björn Canbäck, Cindy Choi, Nicolas Cichocki, Alicia Clum, Jan Colpaert, Alex Copeland, Mauricio D. Costa, Jeanne Doré, Dimitrios Floudas, Gilles Gay, Mariangela Girlanda, Bernard Henrissat, Sylvie Herrmann, Jaqueline Hess, Nils Högberg, Tomas Johansson, Hassine Radhouane Khouja, Kurt Labutti, Urs Lahrmann, Anthony Levasseur, Erika A. Lindquist, Anna Lipzen, Roland Marmeisse, Elena Martino, Claude Murat, Chew Y. Ngan, and David Hibbett
Unexpected diversity of basidiomycetous endophytes in sapwood and leaves of Hevea, Rachael Martin, Romina Gazis, Demetra Skaltsas, Priscila Chaverri, and David Hibbett
Phylogenetic relationships and morphological evolution in Lentinus, Polyporellus and Neofavolus, emphasizing southeastern Asian taxa, Jaya Seelan Sathiya Seelan, Alfredo Justo, Laszlo G. Nagy, Edward A. Grand, Scott A. Redhead, and David Hibbett
Degradation of bunker C fuel oil by white-rot fungi in sawdust cultures suggests potential applications in bioremediation, Darcy Young, James Rice, Rachael Martin, Erika Lindquist, Anna Lipzen, Igor Grigoriev, and David Hibbett
Submissions from 2014
Species delimitation in Trametes: A comparison of ITS, RPB1, RPB2 and TEF1 gene phylogenies, Alexis Carlson, Alfredo Justo, and David S. Hibbett
Latent homology and convergent regulatory evolution underlies the repeated emergence of yeasts, László G. Nagy, Robin A. Ohm, Gábor M. Kovács, Dimitrios Floudas, Robert Riley, Attila Gácser, Mátyás Sipiczki, John M. Davis, Sharon L. Doty, G. Sybren De Hoog, B. Franz Lang, Joseph W. Spatafora, Francis M. Martin, Igor V. Grigoriev, and David S. Hibbett
Extensive sampling of basidiomycete genomes demonstrates inadequacy of the white-rot/brown-rot paradigm for wood decay fungi, Robert Riley, Asaf A. Salamov, Daren W. Brown, Laszlo G. Nagy, Dimitrios Floudas, Benjamin W. Held, Anthony Levasseur, Vincent Lombard, Emmanuelle Morin, Robert Otillar, Erika A. Lindquist, Hui Sun, Kurt M. LaButti, Jeremy Schmutz, Dina Jabbour, Hong Luo, Scott E. Baker, Antonio G. Pisabarro, Jonathan D. Walton, Robert A. Blanchette, Bernard Henrissat, Francis Martin, Dan Cullen, David S. Hibbett, and Igor V. Grigoriev
Submissions from 2013
Lignin-degrading peroxidases in Polyporales: an evolutionary survey based on 10 sequenced genomes., Francisco J. Ruiz-Dueñas, Taina Lundell, Dimitrios Floudas, Laszlo G. Nagy, José M. Barrasa, David S. Hibbett, and Angel T. Martínez
Submissions from 2012
Comparative genomics of Ceriporiopsis subvermispora and Phanerochaete chrysosporium provide insight into selective ligninolysis, Elena Fernandez-Fueyo, Francisco J. Ruiz-Dueñas, Patricia Ferreira, Dimitrios Floudas, David S. Hibbett, Paulo Canessa, Luis F. Larrondo, Tim Y. James, Daniela Seelenfreund, Sergio Lobos, Rubeń Polanco, Mario Tello, Yoichi Honda, Takahito Watanabe, Takashi Watanabe, Ryu Jae San, Christian P. Kubicek, Monika Schmoll, Jill Gaskell, Kenneth E. Hammel, Franz J. St John, Amber Vanden Wymelenberg, Grzegorz Sabat, Sandra Splinter BonDurant, Khajamohiddin Syed, Jagjit S. Yadav, Harshavardhan Doddapaneni, Venkataramanan Subramanian, José L. Laviń, José A. Oguiza, Gumer Perez, and Antonio G. Pisabarro
The paleozoic origin of enzymatic lignin decomposition reconstructed from 31 fungal genomes, Dimitrios Floudas, Manfred Binder, Robert Riley, Kerrie Barry, Robert A. Blanchette, Bernard Henrissat, Angel T. Martínez, Robert Otillar, Joseph W. Spatafora, Jagjit S. Yadav, Andrea Aerts, Isabelle Benoit, Alex Boyd, Alexis Carlson, Alex Copeland, Pedro M. Coutinho, Ronald P. De Vries, Patricia Ferreira, Keisha Findley, Brian Foster, Jill Gaskell, Dylan Glotzer, Paweł Górecki, Joseph Heitman, Cedar Hesse, Chiaki Hori, Kiyohiko Igarashi, Joel A. Jurgens, Nathan Kallen, Phil Kersten, Annegret Kohler, Ursula Kües, and David Hibbett
Sutorius: A new genus for Boletus eximius, Roy E. Halling, Mitchell Nuhn, Nigel A. Fechner, Todd W. Osmundson, Kasem Soytong, David Arora, David S. Hibbett, and Manfred Binder
Affinities of the Boletus chromapes group to Royoungia and the description of two new genera, Harrya and Australopilus, Roy E. Halling, Mitchell Nuhn, Todd Osmundson, Nigel Fechner, James M. Trappe, Kasem Soytong, David Arora, David S. Hibbett, and Manfred Binder
Genome sequence of the button mushroom Agaricus bisporus reveals mechanisms governing adaptation to a humic-rich ecological niche, Emmanuelle Morin, Annegret Kohler, Adam R. Baker, Marie Foulongne-Oriol, Vincent Lombard, Laszlo G. Nagy, Robin A. Ohm, Aleksandrina Patyshakuliyeva, Annick Brun, Andrea L. Aerts, Andrew M. Bailey, Christophe Billette, Pedro M. Coutinho, Greg Deakin, Harshavardhan Doddapaneni, Dimitrios Floudas, Jane Grimwood, Kristiina Hildén, Ursula Kües, Kurt M. LaButti, Alla Lapidus, Erika A. Lindquist, Susan M. Lucas, Claude Murat, Robert W. Riley, Asaf A. Salamov, Jeremy Schmutz, Venkataramanan Subramanian, Han A.B. Wösten, Jianping Xu, Daniel C. Eastwood, Gary D. Foster, and David Hibbett
Submissions from 2011
The plant cell wall-decomposing machinery underlies the functional diversity of forest fungi, Daniel C. Eastwood, Dimitrios Floudas, Manfred Binder, Andrzej Majcherczyk, Patrick Schneider, Andrea Aerts, Fred O. Asiegbu, Scott E. Baker, Kerrie Barry, Mika Bendiksby, Melanie Blumentritt, Pedro M. Coutinho, Dan Cullen, Ronald P. De Vries, Allen Gathman, Barry Goodell, Bernard Henrissat, Katarina Ihrmark, Hävard Kauserud, Annegret Kohler, Kurt LaButti, Alla Lapidus, José L. Lavin, Yong Hwan Lee, Erika Lindquist, Walt Lilly, Susan Lucas, Emmanuelle Morin, Claude Murat, José A. Oguiza, Jongsun Park, Antonio G. Pisabarro, and David Hibbett
Where are all the undocumented fungal species? A study of Mortierella demonstrates the need for sequence-based classification, David Hibbett and Dylan Glotzer
Progress in molecular and morphological taxon discovery in Fungi and options for formal classification of environmental sequences, David S. Hibbett, Anders Ohman, Dylan Glotzer, Mitchell Nuhn, Paul Kirk, and R. Henrik Nilsson
Effects of gasteroid fruiting body morphology on diversification rates in three independent clades of fungi estimated using binary state speciation and extinction analysis, Andrew W. Wilson, Manfred Binder, and David S. Hibbett
Submissions from 2010
Convergent evolution of sequestrate forms in Amanita under Mediterranean climate conditions, Alfredo Justo, Ingo Morgenstern, Heather E. Hallen-Adams, and David S. Hibbett
Submissions from 2009
Fungal ecology catches fire, David S. Hibbett, Anders Ohman, and Paul M. Kirk
Submissions from 2001
Trends and rates of microevolution in plants, Elizabeth Bone and Agnes Farres
Submissions from 2000
Invasiveness, invasibility and the role of environmental stress in the spread of non-native plants, Peter Alpert, Elizabeth Bone, and Claus Holzapfel
Submissions from 1998
Chemotropic and contact responses of Phytophthora sojae hyphae to soybean isoflavonoids and artificial substrates, Paul F. Morris, Elizabeth Bone, and Brett M. Tyler