Merlin M. White

Boise State University — United States

Veterinary · Health Sciences

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Research Topics

Infectious Diseases and Mycology(42), Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases(35), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions(26), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis(13), Actinomycetales infections and treatment(9)

Publications71 total

Genome-wide analyses to delimit the Smittium culicis complex, a globally distributed group of insect gut fungi
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
Trichomycetes from the Columbia Mountains, British Columbia, Canada
Botany·2022· 1 cited
An updated checklist and literature review of Harpellales (Kickxellomycotina) and other endobionts associated with the guts of arthropods from Argentina
Gayana. Botánica·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
Co-inoculation with a dark septate endophyte alters arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization of two widespread plants of the sagebrush steppe
Symbiosis·2021· 10 cited
Influences of a Prolific Gut Fungus (<i>Zancudomyces culisetae</i>) on Larval and Adult Mosquito (Aedes aegypti)-Associated Microbiota
Applied and Environmental Microbiology·2019· 21 citedOpen Access
New species and geographical distribution of trichomycetes (gut fungi) in a novel host, caddisfly (Trichoptera)
Botany·2019· 5 cited
Diversification of the gut fungi Smittium and allies (Harpellales) co-occurred with the origin of complete metamorphosis of their symbiotic insect hosts (lower Diptera)
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution·2019· 15 cited
Comparative Genomics Reveals the Core Gene Toolbox for the Fungus-Insect Symbiosis
mBio·2018· 38 citedOpen Access
Advancing Endosymbiotic Microbial Research by Targeting Early Diverging Fungi in the Digestive Tracts of Arthropods
Scholar Works (Boise State University)·2018
Resolving relationships at the animal-fungal divergence: A molecular phylogenetic study of the protist trichomycetes (Ichthyosporea, Eccrinida)
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution·2017· 12 cited
A phylum-level phylogenetic classification of zygomycete fungi based on genome-scale data
Mycologia·2016· 1.3k citedOpen Access
Draft Genome Sequence of <i>Capniomyces stellatus</i> , the Obligate Gut Fungal Symbiont of Stonefly
Genome Announcements·2016· 9 citedOpen Access
Genome-Wide Survey of Gut Fungi (Harpellales) Reveals the First Horizontally Transferred Ubiquitin Gene from a Mosquito Host
Molecular Biology and Evolution·2016· 38 citedOpen Access
Challenges and Future Perspectives in the Systematics of Kickxellomycotina, Mortierellomycotina, Mucoromycotina, and Zoopagomycotina
Fungal biology·2016· 35 cited
An eight-gene molecular phylogeny of the Kickxellomycotina, including the first phylogenetic placement of Asellariales
Mycologia·2014· 37 cited
Using a five-gene phylogeny to test morphology-based hypotheses of Smittium and allies, endosymbiotic gut fungi (Harpellales) associated with arthropods
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution·2014· 24 cited
Assessing the Potential Effects of Fungicides on Nontarget Gut Fungi (Trichomycetes) and Their Associated Larval Black Fly Hosts
JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association·2014· 13 citedOpen Access
Assessing the diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in semiarid shrublands dominated by Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis
Mycorrhiza·2013· 14 cited
Examining new phylogenetic markers to uncover the evolutionary history of early-diverging fungi: comparing MCM7, TSR1 and rRNA genes for single- and multi-gene analyses of the <i>Kickxellomycotina</i>
Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi·2013· 33 citedOpen Access
Overview of 75 years of <i>Smittium</i> research, establishing a new genus for <i>Smittium culisetae</i> , and prospects for future revisions of the ‘Smittium’ clade
Mycologia·2013· 24 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Robert W. Lichtwardt(16), Matías J. Cafaro(9), Yan Wang(7), Eric D. Tretter(6), Timothy Y. James(5), Gerald L. Benny(4), Jean‐Marc Moncalvo(4), Junta Sugiyama(4), Kerry O’Donnell(4), Prasanna Kandel(4), Stephen J. Novak(4), Meredith Blackwell(3), Joseph W. Spatafora(3), Rytas Vilgalys(3), Jason Stajich(3), Matthew E. Smith(3), John P. Pierce(3), E A Gilpin(3), Sherry Emery(3), D.B. Strongman(3)