Thomas Bruns

Epiparasitic plants specialized on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

Specialized cheating of the ectomycorrhizal symbiosis by an epiparasitic liverwort.

Evidence for mycorrhizal races in a cheating orchid.

Changing partners in the dark: isotopic and molecular evidence of ectomycorrhizal liaisons between forest orchids and trees.

Detection of plot-level changes in ectomycorrhizal communities across years in an old-growth mixed-conifer forest.

Priority effects determine the outcome of ectomycorrhizal competition between two Rhizopogon species colonizing Pinus muricata seedlings.

The effects of heat treatments on ectomycorrhizal resistant propagules and their ability to colonize bioassay seedlings.

Spore dispersal of a resupinate ectomycorrhizal fungus, Tomentella sublilacina, via soil food webs.

Total internal reflectance fluorescence reader for selective investigations of cell membranes.

Spatial structure and richness of ectomycorrhizal fungi colonizing bioassay seedlings from resistant propagules in a Sierra Nevada forest: comparisons using two hosts that exhibit different seedling establishment patterns.

Determining the outcome of field-based competition between two Rhizopogon species using real-time PCR.

Water transfer via ectomycorrhizal fungal hyphae to conifer seedlings.

Host islands within the California Northern Channel Islands create fine-scale genetic structure in two sympatric species of the symbiotic ectomycorrhizal fungus Rhizopogon.

A strong species-area relationship for eukaryotic soil microbes: island size matters for ectomycorrhizal fungi.

Impact of singular excessive computer game and television exposure on sleep patterns and memory performance of school-aged children.

Fungal networks made of humans: UNITE, FESIN, and frontiers in fungal ecology.

FESIN workshops at ESA--the mycelial network grows.

Total internal reflection fluorescence lifetime and anisotropy screening of cell membrane dynamics.

Inoculum potential of Rhizopogon spores increases with time over the first 4 yr of a 99-yr spore burial experiment.

The ectomycorrhizal fungus Amanita phalloides was introduced and is expanding its range on the west coast of North America.

Water sources and controls on water-loss rates of epigeous ectomycorrhizal fungal sporocarps during summer drought.

Individuals, populations, communities and function: the growing field of ectomycorrhizal ecology.

Isotopic evidence of full and partial myco-heterotrophy in the plant tribe Pyroleae (Ericaceae).

Forster resonance energy transfer-based total internal reflection fluorescence reader for apoptosis.

Detection of forest stand-level spatial structure in ectomycorrhizal fungal communities.

Root tip competition among ectomycorrhizal fungi: are priority effects a rule or an exception?

Evidence of a myco-heterotroph in the plant family Ericaceae that lacks mycorrhizal specificity.

Potential link between plant and fungal distributions in a dipterocarp rainforest: community and phylogenetic structure of tropical ectomycorrhizal fungi across a plant and soil ecotone.

Fungal hosts for mycoheterotrophic plants: a nonexclusive, but highly selective club.

Suillus quiescens, a new species commonly found in the spore bank in California and Oregon.

Light dose is a limiting factor to maintain cell viability in fluorescence microscopy and single molecule detection.

Indoor fungal composition is geographically patterned and more diverse in temperate zones than in the tropics.

15N and 13C natural abundance of two mycoheterotrophic and a putative partially mycoheterotrophic species associated with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

Quantifying microbial communities with 454 pyrosequencing: does read abundance count?

Rhizopogon spore bank communities within and among California pine forests.

Phylogeny and taxonomy of Macrolepiota (Agaricaceae).

Multi-dimensional fluorescence microscopy of living cells.

Evidence of dispersal limitation in soil microorganisms: isolation reduces species richness on mycorrhizal tree islands.

Spongiforma squarepantsii, a new species of gasteroid bolete from Borneo.

Divergence in mycorrhizal specialization within Hexalectris spicata (Orchidaceae), a nonphotosynthetic desert orchid.

Systematic search for cultivatable fungi that best deconstruct cell walls of Miscanthus and sugarcane in the field.

Host specificity in ectomycorrhizal communities: what do the exceptions tell us?

Mycoheterotrophic interactions are not limited to a narrow phylogenetic range of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

Measuring ectomycorrhizal fungal dispersal: macroecological patterns driven by microscopic propagules.

The North American Mycoflora project - the first steps on a long journey.

Preparation strategy and illumination of three-dimensional cell cultures in light sheet-based fluorescence microscopy.

A common garden test of host-symbiont specificity supports a dominant role for soil type in determining AMF assemblage structure in Collinsia sparsiflora.

Dispersal in microbes: fungi in indoor air are dominated by outdoor air and show dispersal limitation at short distances.

Biosensor-expressing spheroid cultures for imaging of drug-induced effects in three dimensions.

Nutrient enrichment increased species richness of leaf litter fungal assemblages in a tropical forest.

A unique signal distorts the perception of species richness and composition in high-throughput sequencing surveys of microbial communities: a case study of fungi in indoor dust.

Meeting report: fungal its workshop (october 2012).

Compartmentalized microbial composition, oxygen gradients and nitrogen fixation in the gut of Odontotaenius disjunctus.

Towards a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of fungi.

Fungi at a small scale: spatial zonation of fungal assemblages around single trees.

The diversity and distribution of fungi on residential surfaces.

Nanosecond ratio imaging of redox states in tumor cell spheroids using light sheet-based fluorescence microscopy.

Airborne bacterial communities in residences: similarities and differences with fungi.

Endemism and functional convergence across the North American soil mycobiome.

Spore dispersal of basidiomycete fungi at the landscape scale is driven by stochastic and deterministic processes and generates variability in plant-fungal interactions.