Publications

Jun 2022

Melanodevriesia, a new genus of endolichenic oleaginous black yeast recovered from the Inner Mongolia Region of China

Chang R-L, Cao W, Wang Y, Li S et al.

Fungal Systematics and Evolution

Black yeasts are a phylogenetically diverse group of ascomycetous fungi that may exist in both unicellular and mycelial morphs....

Jan 2022

Diversity of Fusarium species associated with healthy and malformed Syzygium cordatum inflorescences in South Africa.

Mkandawire RI, Yilmaz N, Steenkamp ET, Kvas M et al.

European Journal of Plant Pathology

Syzygium cordatum (Myrtacease) is one of the most common encountered and widely distributed tree species indigenous to South...

Jan 2022

The evolution of insect visual opsin genes with specific consideration of the influence of ocelli and life history traits

Guignard, Quentin, Allison, Jeremy D., Slippers, Bernard

BMC ecology and evolution

Visual opsins are expressed in the compound eyes and ocelli of insects and enable light detection. Three distinct phylogenetic...

Jan 2022

Genomic characterization of grapevine viruses N and O: novel vitiviruses from South Africa

David A. Read, Genevieve D. Thompson, Nathan Le Cordeur, Dirk Swanevelder et al.

Archives of Virology

A survey was performed on a Vitis cultivar collection in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Metaviromes were generated for each...

Jul 2022

Comparison of the infection biology of Teratosphaeria destructans and Teratosphaeria epicoccoides on Eucalyptus

Solís M, Wingfield MJ, Hammerbacher A, Naidoo S

Plant Disease

Leaf blight caused by Teratosphaeria destructans is one of the most important diseases of Eucalyptus planted in the subtropics...

Nov 2021

A high-quality fungal genome assembly resolved from a sample accidentally contaminated by multiple taxa

Aylward J, Wingfield MJ, Roets F, Wingfield BD

BioTechniques

Contamination in sequenced genomes is a relatively common problem and several methods to remove non-target sequences have been...

Feb 2022

Bradyrhizobium altum sp. nov., Bradyrhizobium oropedii sp. nov. and Bradyrhizobium acaciae sp. nov. from South Africa show locally restricted and pantropical nodA phylogeographic patterns

Avontuur JR, Palmer M, Beukes CW, Wai YC et al.

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Africa is known for its rich legume diversity with a significant number of endemic species originating in South Africa. Many of...

Nov 2021

The relevance of studying insect–nematode interactions for human disease

Swart Z, Duong T, Wingfield BD, Postma A et al.

Pathogens and Global Health

Vertebrate-parasitic nematodes cause debilitating, chronic infections in millions of people worldwide. The burden of these...

Nov 2021

Biological traits of wild-caught populations of Aedes aegypti in dengue endemic and nonendemic regions of Kenya

Wanjiku, Caroline, Tchouassi, David P., Sole, Catherine L., Pirk, Christian W. W. et al.

JOURNAL OF VECTOR ECOLOGY