Papers from early 2025
Jason E. Stajich
February 28, 2025
October 26, 2026
This summary was generated by AI (Claude) from the papers’ titles and abstracts, and has not been fully written or reviewed by lab members. Please consult the linked papers for authoritative details.
A look at the first publications of 2025 that include lab members and collaborators.
- Absolute abundance unveils Basidiobolus as a cross-domain bridge indirectly bolstering gut microbiome homeostasis (ISME Journal). A collaboration led by Mitra Ghotbi and Donald Walker at Middle Tennessee State University, with Kian Kelly, Leila Shadmani, Julissa Perez-Marron, Joey Spatafora, and Jason Stajich. The study applies absolute abundance profiling, using the DspikeIn framework, to bacterial and fungal gut microbiomes across amphibians and reptiles. It identifies core taxa that relative abundance hides, and suggests Basidiobolus acts as a connector between microbial modules in the gut network.
- Fungal impacts on Earth’s ecosystems (Nature). A broad perspective with 33 authors on the roles fungi play across Earth’s ecosystems.
- Section-level genome sequencing and comparative genomics of Aspergillus sections Cavernicolus and Usti (Studies in Mycology). A genome sequencing and comparative genomics study of two sections of the genus Aspergillus.
- Assessing the Evolutionary Trajectory of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Conserved Genes in Seagrasses and Aquatic Close Relatives (bioRxiv preprint). Cassandra Ettinger, Jennifer Arroyo, and Jason Stajich examine whether genes conserved for arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis are retained in seagrasses and their aquatic relatives.