Joseph W. Spatafora

Active 1992–2025

94
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26,160
Citations
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Citations

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World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 1,838 citing papers, 16.9% of this breakdownChina: 1,162 citing papers, 10.7% of this breakdownGermany: 621 citing papers, 5.7% of this breakdownFrance: 504 citing papers, 4.6% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 492 citing papers, 4.5% of this breakdownNetherlands: 432 citing papers, 4% of this breakdownCanada: 376 citing papers, 3.5% of this breakdownSpain: 320 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownThailand: 317 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownAustralia: 308 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownBrazil: 267 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdownItaly: 242 citing papers, 2.2% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology42.8%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences38.3%
  • Medicine10.5%
  • Environmental Science3.9%
  • Engineering1.5%
  • Immunology and Microbiology0.9%
  • Other2.1%

Topics

  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases13.5%
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions12.4%
  • Fungal Biology and Applications5.6%
  • Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies3.4%
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity3.2%
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies3%
  • Other58.9%

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  1. A genome-scale phylogeny of the kingdom Fungi

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , - Current Biology 2021 cited by 374

  2. The Paleozoic Origin of Enzymatic Lignin Decomposition Reconstructed from 31 Fungal Genomes

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Annegret Kohler, Ursula Kües, T. K. Arun Kumar, Alan Kuo, Kurt LaButti, Luis Larrondo, Erika Lindquist, Albee Y. Ling, Vincent Lombard, Susan Lucas, Taina Lundell, Rachael Martin, David J. McLaughlin, Ingo Morgenstern, Emanuelle Morin, Claude Murat, László G. Nagy, Matt Nolan, Robin A. Ohm, Aleksandrina Patyshakuliyeva, Antonis Rokas, Francisco J. Ruiz‐Dueñas, Grzegorz Sabat, Asaf Salamov, Masahiro Samejima, Jeremy Schmutz, Jason C. Slot, Franz J. St John, Jan Stenlid, Hui Sun, Sheng Sun, Khajamohiddin Syed, Adrian Tsang, Ad Wiebenga, Darcy F. Young, Antonio G. Pisabarro, Daniel C. Eastwood, Francis Martin, Dan Cullen, Igor V. Grigoriev, David S. Hibbett - Science 2012 cited by 1,824

  3. A phylum-level phylogenetic classification of zygomycete fungi based on genome-scale data

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Mycologia 2016 cited by 1,308

  4. Large-scale genome sequencing of mycorrhizal fungi provides insights into the early evolution of symbiotic traits

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Maíra de Freitas Pereira, Silvia Perotto, Martina Peter, Stephanie Pfister, Robert Riley, Yaron Sitrit, J. Benjamin Stielow, Gergely J. Szöllősi, Lucia Žifčáková, Martina Štursová, Joseph W. Spatafora, Leho Tedersoo, Lu‐Min Vaario, Akiyoshi Yamada, Mi Yan, Pengfei Wang, Jianping Xu, Tom Bruns, Petr Baldrián, Rytas Vilgalys, Christophe Dunand, Bernard Henrissat, Igor V. Grigoriev, David S. Hibbett, László G. Nagy, Francis Martin - Nature Communications 2020 cited by 510

  5. Phylogenetic classification of Cordyceps and the clavicipitaceous fungi

    Authors: , , , , , - Studies in Mycology 2007 cited by 1,053

  6. A multi-gene phylogeny of Clavicipitaceae (Ascomycota, Fungi): Identification of localized incongruence using a combinational bootstrap approach

    Authors: , , , - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 2007 cited by 643

  7. Botryosphaeria dothidea : a latent pathogen of global importance to woody plant health

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , - Molecular Plant Pathology 2016 cited by 318

  8. A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Gareth Griffith, Cécile Gueidan, David L. Hawksworth, Geir Hestmark, Kentaro Hosaka, Richard A. Humber, Kevin D. Hyde, Joseph E. Ironside, Urmas Kõljalg, Cletus P. Kurtzman, Karl‐Henrik Larsson, Robert W. Lichtwardt, Joyce E. Longcore, Jolanta Miądlikowska, Andrew N. Miller, Jean‐Marc Moncalvo, Sharon E. Mozley-Standridge, Franz Oberwinkler, Erast Parmasto, Valérie Reeb, Jack D. Rogers, Claude Roux, Leif Ryvarden, José Paulo Sampaio, Arthur Schüßler, Junta Sugiyama, R. Greg Thorn, Leif Tibell, Wendy A. Untereiner, Christopher Walker, Zheng Wang, Alex Weir, Michael Weiß, Merlin M. White, Katarina Winka, Yi‐Jian Yao, Ning Zhang - Mycological Research 2007 cited by 2,384

  9. Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , David Porter, Peter M. Letcher, Martha J. Powell, John W. Taylor, Merlin M. White, Gareth Griffith, D. R. Davies, Richard A. Humber, Joseph B. Morton, Junta Sugiyama, Amy Y. Rossman, Jack D. Rogers, D.H. Pfister, David Hewitt, Karen Hansen, Sarah Hambleton, R. A. Shoemaker, Jan Kohlmeyer, Brigitte Volkmann‐Kohlmeyer, Robert A. Spotts, Maryna Serdani, P.W. Crous, Karen W. Hughes, Kenji Matsuura, Ewald Langer, Gitta Jutta Langer, Wendy A. Untereiner, Robert Lücking, Burkhard Büdel, David M. Geiser, André Aptroot, Paul Diederich, Imke Schmitt, Matthias Schultz, Rebecca Yahr, David S. Hibbett, François Lutzoni, David J. McLaughlin, Joseph W. Spatafora, Rytas Vilgalys - Nature 2006 cited by 1,860

  10. The genome of Eucalyptus grandis

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Ting Li, Lieven Sterck, Kevin Vanneste, Florent Murat, Marçal Soler, Hélène San Clemente, Mohamed Najib Saïdi, Hua Wang, Christophe Dunand, Charles A. Hefer, Erich Bornberg‐Bauer, Anna R. Kersting, Kelly Vining, Vindhya Amarasinghe, Martin Ranik, Sushma Naithani, Justin Elser, Alexander E. Boyd, Aaron Liston, Joseph W. Spatafora, Palitha Dharmwardhana, Rajani Raja, Christopher M. Sullivan, Elisson Romanel, Márcio Alves‐Ferreira, Carsten Külheim, William J. Foley, Víctor Carocha, Jorge A. P. Paiva, David Kudrna, Sérgio Hermínio Brommonschenkel, Giancarlo Pasquali, Margaret Byrne, Philippe Rigault, Josquin Tibbits, Antanas Spokevicius, Rebecca C. Jones, Dorothy A. Steane, René E. Vaillancourt, BM Potts, Fourie Joubert, Kerrie Barry, Γεώργιος Παππάς, Steven H. Strauss, Pankaj Jaiswal, Jacqueline Grima‐Pettenati, Jérôme Salse, Yves Van de Peer, Daniel S. Rokhsar, Jeremy Schmutz - Nature 2014 cited by 997

  11. Widespread adenine N6-methylation of active genes in fungi

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Nature Genetics 2017 cited by 369

  12. Effector diversification within compartments of the Leptosphaeria maculans genome affected by Repeat-Induced Point mutations

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Anna Stachowiak, B. Gillian Turgeon, Brett M. Tyler, Delphine Vincent, J. Weissenbach, Joëlle Amselem, Hadi Quesneville, Richard P. Oliver, Patrick Wincker, Marie‐Hélène Balesdent, Barbara J. Howlett - Nature Communications 2011 cited by 561

  13. A phylogenetically-based nomenclature for Cordycipitaceae (Hypocreales)

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - IMA Fungus 2017 cited by 336

  14. 101 Dothideomycetes genomes: A test case for predicting lifestyles and emergence of pathogens

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Hui Sun, Andrew Tritt, Yuko Yoshinaga, L.H. Zwiers, B. Gillian Turgeon, Stephen B. Goodwin, Joseph W. Spatafora, P.W. Crous, Igor V. Grigoriev - Studies in Mycology 2020 cited by 233

  15. Diverse Lifestyles and Strategies of Plant Pathogenesis Encoded in the Genomes of Eighteen Dothideomycetes Fungi

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - PLoS Pathogens 2012 cited by 642

  16. The Ascomycota Tree of Life: A Phylum-wide Phylogeny Clarifies the Origin and Evolution of Fundamental Reproductive and Ecological Traits

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , David M. Hillis, Gareth Griffith, Lisa A. Castlebury, Amy Y. Rossman, H. Thorsten Lumbsch, Robert Lücking, Burkhard Büdel, Alexandra Rauhut, Paul Diederich, Damien Ertz, David M. Geiser, Kentaro Hosaka, Patrik Inderbitzin, Jan Kohlmeyer, Brigitte Volkmann‐Kohlmeyer, L. Mostert, Kerry O’Donnell, Harrie J. M. Sipman, Jack D. Rogers, R. A. Shoemaker, Junta Sugiyama, Richard C. Summerbell, Wendy A. Untereiner, Peter R. Johnston, Soili Stenroos, Alga Zuccaro, Paul S. Dyer, P. D. Crittenden, Mariette S. Cole, Karen Hansen, James M. Trappe, Rebecca Yahr, François Lutzoni, Joseph W. Spatafora - Systematic Biology 2009 cited by 664

  17. Comparative genomics provides insights into the lifestyle and reveals functional heterogeneity of dark septate endophytic fungi

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Scientific Reports 2018 cited by 197

  18. Genomes of fungi and relatives reveal delayed loss of ancestral gene families and evolution of key fungal traits

    Authors: , , , , , , , - Nature Ecology & Evolution 2023 cited by 60

  19. A class-wide phylogenetic assessment of Dothideomycetes

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , C. Alisha Owensby, Alan J. L. Phillips, Souwalak Phongpaichit, Stephen B. Pointing, Valérie Pujade‐Renaud, Huzefa A. Raja, Eimy Rivas Plata, Barbara Robbertse, Constantino Ruibal, Jariya Sakayaroj, Teruo Sano, Laura Selbmann, Carol A. Shearer, Takashi Shirouzu, Bernard Slippers, Satinee Suetrong, Kazuaki Tanaka, Brigitte Volkmann‐Kohlmeyer, Michael J. Wingfield, Alan R. Wood, J.H.C. Woudenberg, Hiroaki Yonezawa, Y. Zhang, Joseph W. Spatafora - Studies in Mycology 2009 cited by 607

  20. The Fungal Tree of Life: from Molecular Systematics to Genome-Scale Phylogenies

    Authors: , , , , , - Microbiology Spectrum 2017 cited by 269

  21. Phylogenetic-based nomenclatural proposals for Ophiocordycipitaceae (Hypocreales) with new combinations in Tolypocladium

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - IMA Fungus 2014 cited by 215

  22. The Genome of Tolypocladium inflatum: Evolution, Organization, and Expression of the Cyclosporin Biosynthetic Gene Cluster

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , - PLoS Genetics 2013 cited by 176

  23. Multigene phylogeny reveals new lineage for Stachybotrys chartarum, the indoor air fungus

    Authors: , , , , - Mycological Research 2004 cited by 292

  24. Assembling the fungal tree of life: progress, classification, and evolution of subcellular traits

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Richard C. Harris, Kentaro Hosaka, Young‐Woon Lim, Brandon Matheny, Hiromi Nishida, D.H. Pfister, Jack D. Rogers, Amy Y. Rossman, Imke Schmitt, Harrie J. M. Sipman, Jeffrey K. Stone, Junta Sugiyama, Rebecca Yahr, Rytas Vilgalys - American Journal of Botany 2004 cited by 821