Selected publications

Mobile genetic elements explain size variation in the mitochondrial genomes of four closely-related Armillaria species.  2019.  Kolesnikova AI, Putintseva YA, Simonov EP, Biriukov VV, Oreshkova NV, Pavlov IN, Sharov VV, Kuzmin DA, Anderson, JB and Krutovsky, KV. BMC Genomics (in press)

Eberlein C, Mathieu Hénault M, Fijarczyk A, Charron G, Kohn LM, Anderson JB, and Landry CR. 2019. Hybridization is a recurrent evolutionary stimulus in wild yeast speciation.  Nature Communications DOI: doi.org1010.1038/s41467-019-08809-7. 

Anderson JB, Bruhn JN, Kasimer D, Wang H, Rodrigue N, and Smith ML. 2018.  Clonal evolution and genome stability in a 2,500-year-old fungal individual.  Proceedings of the Royal  Society of London B 285: 20182233.  DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.2233

Anderson JB, Kasimer D, Schröder NCH, Cichowicz P, Lioniello S, Chakrabarti R, Mohan E, and Kohn LM. 2018. Persistence of Resident and Transplanted Genotypes of the Undomesticated Yeast Saccharomyces paradoxus in Forest Soil.  mSphere DOI:10.1128/mSphere.00211-18

Sipos G, Anderson, JB, and Nagy, LG . 2018. Armillaria. Current Biology 28:R297-R298.

Sipos G Prasanna AN, Walter MC , O'Connor EBalint BKrizsan KKiss BHess J , Varga T, Slot J, Riley R, Boka B, Rigling D, Barry, K ; Lee, J ; Mihaltcheva, LaButti K,  Lipzen A,; Waldron R, Moloney NM, Sperisen C, Kredics L, Vagvolgyi C, Patrignani A, Fitzpatrick D, Nagy I, Doyle S, Anderson JB, Grigoriev IV, Guldener U, Munsterkotter M, and Nagy LG. 2018. Genome expansion and lineage-specific genetic innovations in the forest pathogenic fungi Armillaria. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2: 577. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0469-7

Trivedi J, Lachapelle J, Vanderwolf KJ, misra V, Willis CKR, Ratcliffe JM, Ness R, Anderson JB, and Kohn LM. 2017. Fungus causing white-nose Syndrome in bats accummulates genetic variability in North America with no sign of recombination. mSphere 2:e00271-17. doi.org/10.1128/mSphereDirect.00271-17.

Xia W, Nielly-Thibault L, Charron G, Landry C, Kasimer D, Anderson JB, and Kohn LM. 2017. Population genomics reveals structure at the individual, host-tree scale and persistence of genotypic variants of the undomesticated yeast Saccharomyces paradoxus in a natural woodland.  Molecular Ecology 26: 995-1007;  DOI: 10.1111/mec.13954.

Srtak A, Sathiamoorthy S, Tang PS, Tsoi KM, Song F, Anderson JB, Chan WCW, and Shin JA. 2017. Yeast Populations Evolve to Resist CdSe Quantum Dot Toxicity. Bioconjugate Chemistry 28: 1205-1213. DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.7b00056.

Bui DT, Dine E, Anderson JB, Aquadro CF, and Alani E. 2015.  A genetic incompatibility accelerates adaptation in yeast.  PLoS Genetics 11(7): e1005407. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1005407.

Kohn LM and Anderson JB  2014.  The underlying structure of adaptation under strong selection in twelve experimental yeast populations.  Eukaryotic Cell 13: 1200-1206.

Anderson JB and Catona S. 2014.  The genome-wide mutation dynamic within a long-lived individual of Armillaria gallica.  Mycologia 106:642-648.

Parreiras LS, Kohn LM, and Anderson JB. 2011. Cellular effects and epistasis among three determinants of adaptation in experimental populations of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.  Eukaryotic Cell 10: 1348-1356.

Anderson JB, Funt J, Thompson DA, Prabhu S, Socha A, Sirjusingh C, Dettman JR, Parreiras L, Guttman,DS, Regev A, and Kohn LM. 2010. Determinants of divergent adaptation and Dobzhansky-Muller interaction in experimental yeast populations. 2010. Current Biology 20:1383-1388.

Dettman JR, Anderson JB, and Kohn LM 2010.  Genome-wide investigation of reproductive isolation in experimental lineages and natural species of Neurospora: identifying candidate regions by microarray-based genotyping and mapping. Evolution 64:694-709.

Selmecki AM, Dulmage K, Cowen LE, Anderson J., and Berman J. 2009. Acquisition of aneuploidy provides increased fitness during the evolution of antifungal drug resistance. PLoS Genet 5 (10), e1000705.

Anderson JB, Sirjusingh C, Syed N, and LaFayette S.  2009. Gene expression and evolution of antifungal drug resistance.  Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 53:1931-1936.

Dettman JR, Anderson JB, and Kohn, LM. 2008. Divergent adaptation promotes reproductive isolation among
experimental populations of the filamentous fungus Neurospora
. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:35

Kohn LM, Schaffer MR, Anderson JB, and Grünwald N. 2008. Marker stability throughout 400 days of in vitro hyphal growth in the filamentous ascomycete, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.  Fungal Genetics and Biology 45:613-617.

Dettman JR, Sirjusignh S, Kohn LM and Anderson JB. 2007. Incipient speciation by divergent adaptation and antagonisitc epistasis in yeast. Nature 447:585-588.

Anderson JB and Kohn LM.  2007. Dikaryons, diploids and evolution.  ASM volume:  Sex in fungi: molecular determination and evolutionary implications.  Edited by Heitman J, Casselton L, Taylor, J. W., and Kronstad J.

Anderson JB, Ricker N, and Sirjusingh C. 2006. Antagonism between two mechanisms of antifungal drug resistance.  Eukaryotic Cell 5:1243-1251.

Anderson JB. 2005. Evolution of antifungal-drug resistance: mechanisms and pathogen fitness. Nature Reviews Microbiology 3:547-556.

Anderson JB, Sirjusingh S, and Ricker N. 2004. Haploidy, diploidy and evolution of antifungal drug resistance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 168:1915-1923.

Clark TA and Anderson JB. 2004. Dikaryons of the basidiomycete fungus Schizophyllum commune: evolution in long-term culture. Genetics 167:1663-1675.

Anderson JB, Sirjusingh C, Parsons AB, Boone C, Wickens C, Cowen LE, and Kohn LM . 2003. Mode of selection and experimental evolution of antifungal drug resistance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 163:1287-1298..

Cowen LE, Nantel A, Whiteway MS, Thomas DY, Tessier DC, Kohn LM, and Anderson JB. 2002. Population Genomics of Drug Resistance in Candida albicans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 99:9284-9289. 

Cowen LE, Anderson JB, and Kohn LM. 2002. Evolution of drug resistance in Candida albicans. Annual Review of Microbiology 56:139­165.

Cowen L, Kohn LM, and Anderson JB. 2001. Fitness divergence associated with the evolution of drug resistance in experimental populations of Candida albicans. Journal of Bacteriology 183:2971-2978.

Anderson JB, Wickens C, Khan M, Cowen LE, Federspiel N, Jones T, and Kohn LM. 2001. Infrequent genetic exchange and recombination in the mitochondrial genome of Candida albicansJournal of Bacteriology 183:865-872.

Cowen LE, Sanglard D, Calabrese D, Anderson JB, and Kohn LM. 2000. Evolution of drug resistance in experimental populations of Candida albicans. Journal of Bacteriology 182:1515-1522.

Hodnett B and Anderson JB. 2000. Genomic stability of two individuals of Armillaria gallica. Mycologia 92:894-899.

Cowen LE, Sirjusingh C, Summerbell RC, Walmsley S, Richardson S, Kohn LM , and Anderson JB 1999. Multilocus Genotypes and DNA fingerprints do not predict variation in azole resistance among isolates of Candida albicans. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 1999 12:2930-2938.

Carbone I, Anderson JB, and Kohn LM. 1999. Patterns of descent in clonal lineages and their multilocus fingerprints are resolved with combined gene genealogies. Evolution 53:11-21.

Anderson JB and Kohn LM. 1998. Genotyping, gene genealogies and genomics bring fungal population genetics above ground. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 13: 444-449.

Saville BJ, Kohli Y, and Anderson JB. 1998. Mitchondrial DNA recombination in a natural population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA). 95:1331-1335.

Xu JP, Kerrigan RW, Horgen PA, and Anderson, JB. 1997. Genetic structure of natural populations of Agaricus bisporus, the commercial button mushroom. J. Heredity 88:482-494.

Saville BJ, Yoell H, and Anderson JB. 1996. Genetic exchange and recombination in populations of the root-infecting fungus Armillaria gallica. Molecular Ecology 5:485-497.

Anderson JB and Kohn LM. 1995. Clonality in soilborne, plant-pathogenic fungi. Annual Review of Phytopathology 33:369-391.

Carvalho D and Anderson JB. 1995. Genetic exchange between diploid and haploid mycelia of Armillaria gallica. Mycological Research 99:641-647.

Kerrigan RW, Royer J, Baller L, Kohli Y, Horgen PA, and Anderson JB. 1993. Meiotic behavior and linkage relationships in the secondarily homothallic fungus, Agaricus bisporus. Genetics 133:225-236.

Kerrigan RW,  Horgen PA, and Anderson JB.  1993.  The California population of Agaricus bisporus  comprises two interbreeding ancestral elements.  Systematic Botany 18:123-136.

Smith ML, Bruhn JN, and Anderson JB. 1992. The fungus Armillaria bulbosa is among the largest and oldest living organisms. Nature 356:428-431.

Kohli Y. Morall R.A.A., Anderson JB, and Kohn LM.  1992.  Local and transcanadian clonal distribution of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum on canola.  Phytopathology 82:875-880.

Anderson JB and Stasovski E. 1992. Molecular phylogeny of Northern hemisphere Armillaria species. Mycologia 84:505-516.

Smith ML, Duchesne L, Bruhn JN, and Anderson JB. 1990. Mitochondrial genetics in a natural population of the plant pathogen Armillaria. Genetics 126:575-582.

Kerrigan, RW, Baller L, Horgen PA, and Anderson JB.  1992.  Strategies for the efficient recovery of Agaricus bisporus homokaryons Mycologia 84:575-579.

Kohn LM, Carbone I, Stasovski E, Royer J, and Anderson JB.  1991.  Mycelial incompatibility and molecular markers identify genetic variability in field populations of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum .  Phytopathology 81:480-485. 

Kohn LM, Carbone I, and Anderson JB.  1990.  Mycelial interactions in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.  Experimental Mycology 14:255-267.

Duchesne LC and Anderson JB.  1990.  Location and direction of transcription of the 5S rRNA gene in Armillaria.  Mycological Research 94:266-269.

Anderson JB, Bailey SS, and Pukkila PJ.  1989.  Variation in ribosomal DNA among biological species of Armillaria , a genus of root-infecting fungi.  Evolution 43:1652-1662.

Summerbell RC, Castle A, Horgen P, and Anderson JB.  1989.  Inheritance of restriction fragment length polymorphisms in Agaricus brunnescens.  Genetics 123:293-300.

Smith ML and Anderson JB.  1989.  Restriction fragment length polymorphisms in mitochondrial DNAs of Armillaria: identification of North American biological species.  Mycological Research 93:247-256.

Horgen PA., Kokurewicz K, and Anderson JB.  1989.  The germination of basidiospores from commercial and wild isolates of Agaricus bisporus.  Canadian Journal of Microbiology 35:492-498.

Hintz W, Anderson JB, and Horgen PA.  1988.  Relatedness of three species of Agaricus inferred from RFLP analysis of the ribosomal DNA repeat and mitochondrial DNA.  Genome 32:173-178.

Hintz W, Anderson JB, and Horgen P.  1988.  Physical mapping of the mitochondrial genome of the cultivated mushroom, Agaricus brunnescens (=A. bisporus).  Current Genetics 14:43-49.

Castle A, Horgen P, and Anderson JB.  1988.  Crosses among homokaryons from commercial and wild-collected strains of the mushroom Agaricus brunnescens (=A. bisporus).  Applied and Environmental Microbiology 54:1643-1648.

Meyer RJ, Hintz WA, Mohan M, Robison M, Anderson JB, and Horgen PA.  1988.  Homology of Agaricus mitochondrial plasmids with mitochondrial DNA.  Genome 30:710-716.

Kohn LM, Bailey SS.,  Petsche DM, and Anderson JB.  1988.  Restriction fragment length polymorphisms in nuclear and mitochondrial DNA of Sclerotinia species.  Phytopathology 78:1047-1051.

Hintz W, Anderson, JB, and Horgen P.  1988.  Nuclear migration and mitochondrial inheritance in the mushroom Agaricus bitorquis.  Genetics 119:35-41.

Castle A, Horgen P, and Anderson JB.  1987.  Restriction fragment length polymorphisms in Agaricus brunnescens and A. bitorquis.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology 53:816-822.

Anderson JB, Petsche DM, and Smith ML.  1987.  Restriction fragment polymorphisms in biological species of Armillaria mellea.  Mycologia 79: 69-76.

Anderson JB.  1986.  Biological species of Armillaria in North America: redesignation of groups IV and VIII and enumeration of voucher strains for other groups.  Mycologia 78:837-839.

Horgen PA, Meyer RL, Franklin AL, Anderson JB, and Filion WG.  1985.  Motile spores released from resistant sporangia of Blastocladiella emersonii possess one-half the DNA of spores from ordinary colorless sporangia.  Experimental Mycology 9: 70-73.

Anderson JB, Franklin AL, and Petsche D.  1985.  Nuclear DNA content of benomyl-induced segregants of diploid strains of the phytopathogenic fungus Armillaria mellea.  Canadian Journal of Genetics & Cytology 27: 47-50.

Hintz W, Mohan M, Anderson JB, and Horgen P.  1985.  The mitochondrial DNAs of Agaricus:  heterogeneity in A. bitorquis and homogeneity in A. brunnescens.  Current Genetics 9:127-132.

Mohan M, Meyer R, Anderson JB, and Horgen P.  1984.  Plasmid-like DNAs in the commercially important mushroom genus Agaricus.  Current Genetics 8:615-619.

Anderson JB and Cenedese R.  1984.  Extranuclear chloramphenicol-resistance mutations in the basidiomycete Sistotrema brinkmannii.  Experimental Mycology 8:256-260.

Horgen P, Arthur A, Davy O, Moum A, Herr F, Straus N, and Anderson JB.  1984.  The nucleotide sequence homologies of unique DNAs of some cultivated and wild mushrooms.  Canadian Journal of Microbiology 30:587-593.

Anderson JB, Petsche D, Herr F, and Horgen P.  1984.  Breeding relationships among several species of Agaricus.  Canadian Journal of  Botany 62:1884-1889.

Anderson JB and Yacoob R.  1983.  Benomyl induced somatic segregation in diploid Armillaria mellea.  Phytopathology 74:612-615.

Franklin AW, Filion WG, and Anderson JB.  1983.  Determination of nuclear DNA contents in fungi using mithramycin: vegetative diploidy in Armillaria mellea confirmed.  Canadian Journal of Microbiology 9:1179-1183.

Anderson JB.  1983.  Induced somatic segregation in Armillaria mellea diploids.  Experimental Mycology 7:141-147.

Arthur, P., Herr, F. Straus, N., Anderson, J., and Horgen, P.  1983.  Characterization of the genome of the cultivated mushroom, Agaricus brunnescens.  Experimental Mycology 7:127-132.

Anderson, J.B.  1982. Heterothallism and vegetative diploidy in Clitocybe tabescens. Mycologia 74:911-916.

Anderson, J.B. and Ullrich, R C.  1982.  Translocation of nutrients in rhizomorphs of Armillaria mellea.  Experimental Mycology 6:31-40.

Anderson, J.B. and Ullrich, R C.  1982.  Diploids of Armillaria mellea: synthesis, stability and mating behavior.  Canadian Journal of Botany 60: 432-439.

Anderson, J.B., Korhonen, K., and Ullrich, R.C.  1980.  Relationships between European and North American biological species of Armillaria mellea.  Experimental Mycology 4: 87-95.

Anderson, J.B., Pomerantz, F., and Ullrich, R.C.  1979.  Random assortment in Armillaria mellea.  Mycologia 71: 1278-1279.

Anderson, J.B., Ullrich, R.C., Roth, L.F., and Filip, G.M.  1979.  Genetic identification of clones of Armillaria mellea in coniferous forests in Washington. Phytopathology 69:  1109-1111.

Anderson, J.B. and Ullrich, R.C.  1979.  Biological species of Armillaria mellea in North America.  Mycologia 71: 402-414.

Ullrich, R.C. and Anderson, J.B.  1978.  Sex and diploidy in Armillaria mellea.   Experimental Mycology 2: 119-129.