Büker, B., Petit, E.,
Begerow, D., and Hood, M. E. 2013. Experimental hybridization and backcrossing
reveal forces of reproductive isolation in Microbotryum. (in review). (inquire).
Nieuwenhuis, B.P.S.,
Billiard S., Vuilleumier, S., Petit, E., Hood, M.E., and Giraud, T. 2013.
Evolutionary advantages and drawbacks of uni- versus bifactoriality in mating
type determinism. (in review). (inquire)
Horns, R. and Hood, M. E. 2013.
The evolution of transposable elements in genomes with the RIP hypermutation
defense. (in review). (inquire).
Gibson, A. K., Petit, E.,
Mena-Ali, J., Oxelman, B., and Hood, M. E. 2013. Life-history strategy
defends against disease and affects on physiological resistance. Ecology and
Evolution (in press). (inquire).
Fontaine, M. C., Gladieux,
P., Hood M. E., and Giraud. T. 2013. History of the invasion of the
anther-smut pathogen on Silene latifolia in
de Vienne, D. M., Giraud,
T., López-Villavicencio, M, Tellier, A., Hood, M. E. and Refrégier, G. 2013.
Cospeciation vs host-shift speciation: methods for testing, evidence from natural
associations and relation to coevolution. New Phytologist 198: 347–385. (inquire).
Hood, M. E., Petit, E.,
and Giraud, T. 2013. Extensive divergence between mating type
chromosomes of the anther-smut fungus. Genetics 193: 309–315. PDF
Petit, E., Giraud, T., de
Vienne, D. M., Coelho, M. A., Aguileta, G., Amselem, J., Kreplak, J., Poulain,
J. Gavory, F., Wincker, P., Sykes, S., Cuomo, C., Perlin, M. H., and Hood, M.
E. 2012. Linkage to the mating-type locus across the genus Microbotryum:
Insights into non-recombining chromosomes. Evolution 66: 3519–3533. (inquire for a PDF).
Chung, E., Petit, E.,
Antonovics, J., Pedersen, A. B., and Hood, M. E. 2012. Variation in
resistance to multiple pathogen species: anther smuts of Silene uniflora.
Ecology and Evolution 2: 2304–2314. PDF
Horns, R. and Hood, M. E. 2012.
The evolution of disease resistance and tolerance in spatially structured
populations. Ecology and Evolution 2: 1705–1711. PDF
Gibson, A. K., Hood, M.
E., and Giraud, T. 2012. Sibling competition arena: selfing and a
competition arena can combine to constitute a barrier to gene flow in sympatry.
Evolution 66: 1917-30. (inquire for a PDF)
Fujita, N., Aonuma, W.,
Billiard, S.,
López-Villavicencio, M., Hood, M. E., and Giraud, T. 2012. Sex,
outcrossing and mating types? Unsolved
questions in fungi and beyond. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25:
1020-1038. (inquire
for a
PDF).
Horns, F., Petit, E.,
Yockteng, R., and Hood, M. E. 2012. Patterns of repeat-induced point
mutation in transposable elements of basidiomycete fungi. Genome Biology and
Evolution 4: 240-247. PDF
Billiard, S.,
Lopez-Villavicencio, M, Devier, B., Hood, M. E., Fairhead, C., and Giraud, T. 2011.
Having
sex, yes, but with whom? Inferences from fungi on the evolution of anisogamy
and mating types. Biological Reviews 86: 421-442. (inquire for a PDF).
Giraud, T. and Hood, M. E.
2011. Anther smut fungi sterilizing Caryophyllaceae in
Gladieux, P., Vercken, E.,
Fontaine, M. C., Hood, M. E., Jonot, O., Couloux, A., and Giraud, T. 2011.
Maintenance of fungal pathogen species that are
specialized to different hosts: allopatric divergence and introgression through
secondary contact. Molecular Biology and Evolution 28: 459-471. (inquire for a PDF).
López-Villavicencio,
M., Courjol, F., Gibson, A. K., Hood, M.
E., Jonot, O., Shykoff, J. A., and Giraud, T. 2011. Competition, cooperation
among kin, and virulence in multiple infections. Evolution
65: 1357–1366. (inquire for a PDF).
Vercken, E., Fontaine, M.
C., Gladieux, P., Hood, M. E., Jont, O., and Giraud, T. 2010. Glacial
refugia in pathogens: European genetic structure of anther smut pathogens on Silene
latifolia and Silene dioica. PLoS Pathogen 6: e1001229.
PDF
Giraud, T., Gladieux, P.,
and Hood, M. E. 2010. The origin of species in Fungi. Fungi 3:
23-27. PDF
Refrégier, G., Hood, M.
E., and Giraud, T. 2010. No evidence of reproductive character
displacement between two sister fungal species causing anther smut disease in Silene.
International Journal of Plant Sciences
171: 847–859. PDF
Gibson, A. K., Mena-Alí,
J. I., and Hood M. E. 2010. Loss of
pathogens in threatened plant species. Oikos 119: 1919–1928. PDF
Hood, M. E., Mena-Alí, J.
I., Gibson, A. K., Oxelman, B., Giraud, T., Yockyeng, R., Arroyo, M. T. K.,
Conti, F., Pedersen, A., Gladieux, P, and Antonovics, J. 2010. Distribution of the anther-smut pathogen Microbotryum on species of the Caryophyllaceae. New Phytologist
187: 217-229. PDF
Abbate, J. L. and Hood, M.
E. 2010. Dynamic linkage
relationships to the mating-type locus in automictic fungi of the genus Microbotryum.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23:
1800-1805. PDF
Devier, B, Aguileta, G,
Hood, M. E., and Giraud, T. 2010.
Using phylogenies of pheromone receptor genes in the Microbotryum violaceum species complex to investigate possible
events of speciation by hybridization. Mycologia
102: 689-696. PDF
Johnson, L. J., Giraud,
T., Anderson, R., and Hood, M. E. 2010.
The impact of genome defense on mobile elements in Microbotryum. Genetica
138: 313-319. PDF
de Vienne, D. M., Hood, M.
E., and Giraud, T. 2009.
Phylogenetic determinants of potential host shifts in fungal pathogens. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22:
2532-2541. PDF
Tellier, A., de Vienne, D.
M., Giraud, T., Hood, M. E., and Refrégier, G. 2009. Theory and examples of reciprocal influence between hosts and
pathogens. in Host-Pathogen Interactions: Genetics, Immunology, and Physiology.
N.Y. Nova Science Publishers. (inquire).
Denchev, C. M, Giraud, T.
and Hood, M. E. 2009. Three new
species of anthericolous smut fungi on Caryophyllaceae. Mycologica Balcanica
6: 79-84. PDF
Bernasconi, G.,
Antonovics, J., Biere, A., Charlesworth, D., Delph, L. F., Filatov, D., Giraud,
T., Hood, M. E., Marais, G. A. B, McCauley, D., Pannell, J., Shykoff, J. A.,
Vyskot, B., Wolfe, L., and Widmer, A. 2009.
Silene as a model system in ecology and
evolution. Heredity 103:
5–14. PDF
Gold, A., Giraud, T., and
Hood, M. E. 2009. Within-host competitive
exclusion among species of the anther-smut pathogen. BMC Ecology 9: 11. PDF
de Vienne, D. M.,
Refrégier, G., Hood, M. E., Guigue, A., Devier, B., Vercken, E., Smadja, C.
Deseille, A., and Giraud, T. 2009.
Hybrid sterility and inviability in the parasitic fungal species complex Microbotryum. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 683–698. PDF
Aguileta, G., Hood, M. E., Refrégier, G., and Giraud, T. 2009. Genome evolution in plant
pathogenic and symbiotic fungi. Advances in Botanical Research 49:
151-193. PDF
Devier, B., Aguileta, G.,
Hood, M. E., and Giraud, T. 2009.
Ancient trans-specific polymorphism at pheromone receptor genes in basidiomycetes.
Genetics 181: 209–223. PDF
Sloan, D. B., Giraud, T.,
and Hood, M. E. 2008. Maximized
virulence in a sterilizing pathogen: the anther-smut fungus and its co-evolved
hosts. Journal of Evolutionary Biology
21: 1544-1554. PDF
Giraud,
T., Refrégier, G., Le Gac, M., de Vienne, D. M., and Hood, M. E. 2008. Speciation in fungi. Fungal Genetics and Biology 45:
791–802. PDF
Giraud, T., Yockteng, R., López-Villavicencio, M., Refrégier, G., and
Hood, M. E. 2008. The mating system
of the anther smut fungus, Microbotryum
violaceum: selfing under heterothallism. Eukaryotic Cell 7: 765–775. PDF
Refrégier, G., Le Gac, M., Jabbour, F., Widmer, A., Shykoff, J. A.,
Yockteng, R., Hood, M. E., and Giraud, T. 2008.
Cophylogeny of the anther smut fungi and their caryophyllaceous hosts:
Prevalence of host shifts and importance of delimiting parasite species for
inferring cospeciation. BMC Evolutionary
Biology 8:100. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-100. PDF
Giraud, T., Yockteng, R.
Marthey, S., Chiapello, H., Jonot, O., Lopez-Villavicencio, M., Hood, M. E., De
Vienne, D., Gendrault-Jacquemard, A., Wincker, P. and Dossat, C. 2008. Isolation of 60 polymorphic
microsatellite loci in EST libraries of four sibling species of the
phytopathogenic fungal complex Microbotryum.
Molecular Ecology Resources 8:
387–392. PDF
López-Villavicencio, M.,
Jonot, O., Coantic, A., Hood, M. E., Enjalbert, J., and Giraud, T. 2007.
Multiple infections by the anther smut pathogen are frequent and involve
related strains. PLoS Pathogen 3: e176. PDF
Yockteng, R, Marthey, S. Chiapello, H, Gendrault, A., Hood, M. E.,
Rodolphe, F., Wincker, P., Dossat, C., and Giraud, T. 2007. Expressed sequences tags of the anther smut fungus, Microbotryum violaceum, identify mating
and pathogenicity gene. BMC Genomics 8:
272. PDF
Le Gac, M., Hood, M. E., and Giraud, T. 2007. Evolution of
reproductive isolation within a parasitic fungal species complex. Evolution 61: 1781–1787. PDF
Cafuir, L., Antonovics,
J., and Hood, M. E. 2007. Tissue culture and quantification of
individual-level resistance to anther-smut disease in Silene vulgaris. International Journal of Plant Sciences
168: 415-419. PDF
Antonovics, J., Abbate, J.
L., Howell Baker, C., Daley, D., Hood, M. E., Jenkins, C. E., Johnson, L. J.,
Murray, J. J., Panjeti, V., Rudolf, V. H. W., and Sloan, D. 2007. Evolution by any other name:
antibiotic resistance and avoidance of the e-word. PLoS Biology 5: 137-140. PDF
Le Gac, M., Hood, M. E.,
Fournier, E., Giraud, T. 2007. Phylogenetic evidence of host-specific
cryptic species in the anther smut fungus. Evolution
61: 15-26. PDF
Koskella, B., Giraud, T.,
and Hood, M. E. 2006. Pathogen relatedness affects the prevalence of
within-host competition. American Naturalist 168: 121-126. PDF
Antonovics, J., Hood, M.
E., and Howell Baker, C. 2006. Was the 1918 flu avian in origin? Nature
440: e9. PDF
Johnson, L. J.,
Antonovics, J., and Hood, M. E. 2005. The evolution of intratetrad
mating rates. Evolution 59: 2525-2532. PDF
Lopez-Villavicencio, M.,
Enjalbert, E., Hood, M. E., Shykoff, J. A., Raquin, C., Giraud, T. 2005.
The anther smut disease on Gypsophila repens: a case of parasite
sub-optimal performance following a recent host shift? Journal of
Evolutionary Biology 18: 1293-1303. PDF
Hood, M. E., Katawczik,
M., and Giraud, T. 2005. Repeat-induced point mutation and the
population structure of transposable elements in Microbotryum violaceum.
Genetics 170: 1081-1089. PDF
Hood, M. E. 2005.
Repetitive DNA in the automictic fungus Microbotryum violaceum. Genetica
124: 1-10. PDF
Hood, M. E., Antonovics,
J., and Koskella, B. 2004. Shared forces of sex chromosome evolution in
haploid-mating and diploid-mating organisms. Genetics 168: 141-146. PDF
Hood, M. E. and
Antonovics, J. 2004. Mating within the meiotic tetrad and the
maintenance of genomic heterozygosity. Genetics 166: 1751-1759. PDF
Antonovics, J., Hood, M.
E., Thrall, P., Abrams, J. Y, and Duthie, M. 2003. Herbarium studies on
the distribution of anther-smut disease (Microbotryum violaceum) and Silene
species in the eastern
Hood, M. E. and
Antonovics, J. 2003. Plant species descriptions show signs of disease. Proceedings
of the Royal Society
Hood, M. E. 2003.
Dynamics of multiple infection and within-host competition by the anther-smut
pathogen. American Naturalist 162: 122-133. PDF
Hood, M. E., Antonovics,
J., and Heishman, H. 2003. Karyotypic similarity identifies multiple
host-shifts of a pathogenic fungus in natural populations. Infection,
Genetics, and Evolution 2: 167-172. PDF
Hood, M. E. 2002.
Dimorphic mating-type chromosomes in the fungus Microbotryum violaceum. Genetics
160: 457-461. PDF
Antonovics, J., Hood, M.
E., Partain, J. 2002. The ecology and genetics of a host-shift: Microbotryum
as a model system. American Naturalist 160: S40-S53. PDF
Hood, M. E., Rocha, 0. J.,
and Antonovics, J. 2001. Differences in teliospore germination patterns
of Microbotryum violaceum on European and North American Silene species.
Mycological Research 105: 532-536. PDF
Hood, M. E. and
Antonovics, J. 2000. Intratetrad mating, heterozygosity, and the
maintenance of deleterious alleles in Microbotryum violaceum (=Ustilago
violacea). Heredity 85: 231-241. PDF
Hood, M. E. and
Antonovics, J. 1998. Two-celled promycelia and mating-type segregation
in Ustilago violacea (=Microbotryum violaceum). International
Journal of Plant Sciences 159: 199-205. PDF
Antonovics, J., O'Keefe,
K., and Hood, M. E. 1998. Theoretical population genetics of mating-type
linked haplo-lethal alleles. International Journal of plant Science 159:
192-198. PDF
Hood, M. E., Condon, J.
M., Timko, M. P., and Riopel, J. L. 1998. Primary haustorial development
of Striga asiatica on host and nonhost species. Phytopathology
88: 70-75. (cover article) PDF
Hood, M. E. and Shew, H.
D. 1997. Reassessment of the role of saprophytic activity in the ecology
of Thielaviopsis basicola. Phytopathology 87: 1214-1219. PDF
Hood, M. E. and Shew, H.
D. 1997. The influcence of nurtients on development, resting hyphae and
aleuriospore induction of Thielaviopsis basicola. Mycologia 89:
793-800. PDF
Hood, M. E. and Shew, H.
D. 1997. Initial cellular interactions between Thielaviopsis basicola
and tobacco root hairs. Phytopathology 87: 228-235. (cover article)
PDF
Hood, M. E. and Shew, H.
D. 1996. Pathogenesis of Thielaviopsis basicola on a susceptible
and a resistant cultivar of burley tobacco. Phytopathology 86: 38-44. PDF
Hood, M. E. and Shew, H. D.
1996. Applications of KOH-aniline blue fluorescence in the study of
plant-fungal interactions. Phytopathology 86: 704-708. PDF
(Link to M. E. Hood
homepage - Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics, Amherst College)