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Meredith Blackwell
Shown with MSA auction purchases, including artwork by David Geiser and Life with a feature article on Gordon Wasson and his quest for the identity of magic mushrooms in Oaxaca, Mexico. Salt Lake City, August 2001. All auction proceeds go to the MSA endowment for the benefit of student members. Photograph: Francisco Camacho

PUBLICATIONS
Electronic:

Blackwell, M., C. P. Kurtzman, M.-A. Lachance, and S.-O. Suh. 2008. Saccharomycotina, Saccharomycetales. In: Tree of Life Web Project. Eds. D. Maddison and W. Maddison. http://tolweb.org/Saccharomycotina/29043
Blackwell, M. and R. L. Gilbertson. 2005. A genealogy of North American mycologists.
Gilbertson, R. L., and M. Blackwell. 2000. Wood-rotting fungi of the gulf coast states (USA and Mexico).
Blackwell, M., R. Vilgalys, Timothy Y. James, and John W. Taylor. 1996. Fungi. Eumycota: mushrooms, sac fungi, yeast, molds, rusts, smuts, etc. In: Tree of Life Web Project. Eds. D. Maddison and W. Maddison. http://tolweb.org/Fungi/2377

Books:

Vega, F. E., and M. Blackwell, Eds. 2007. Insect-Fungal Associations: Ecology and Evolution. Kyoritsu Shuppan Co. Ltd., Tokyo, 400p. [Japanese translation 昆虫と菌類の関係 -その生態と進化- 2007. (ISBN978-4-320-05645-9, F.E.Vega，M.Blackwell　編, 梶村恒・佐藤大樹・升屋勇人　訳, A5，400頁，5300円.]
Vega, F. E. and M. Blackwell, Eds. 2005. Insect-Fungal Associations: Ecology and Evolution, Oxford University Press, NY. 333p.
Alexopoulos, C. J., C. W. Mims, and M. Blackwell. 1996. Introductory Mycology. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 868 p. (first US printing), 869p. (successive US printings); Translation rights: Spanish, Portuguese, German, Chinese.
Wheeler, Q., and M. Blackwell, Eds. 1984. Fungus-Insect Relationships: Perspectives in Ecology and Evolution. Columbia University Press, New York. 514 p.

Refereed Papers and Chapters:

Hibbett, D. S., M. Blackwell, T. Y. James, J. W. Spatafora, J. W. Taylor, and R. Vilgalys. Fungi R. H. Whittaker 1959: 220, converted clade name. PhyloCode Companion Volume, International Code of Phylogenetic Nomenclature, Version 4b, Philip D. Cantino and Kevin de Queiroz, eds. Accepted.
Hibbett, D. S. M. Blackwell, T. Y. James, J. W. Spatafora, J. W. Taylor, and R. Vilgalys. Dikarya, D. S. Hibbett, T. Y. James, and R. Vilgalys 2007: 518 (in Hibbett et al., 2007), converted clade name. PhyloCode Companion Volume, International Code of Phylogenetic Nomenclature, Version 4b, Philip D. Cantino and Kevin de Queiroz, eds. Accepted.
Spatafora, J. W., M. Blackwell, D. S. Hibbett, T. Y. James, and J. W. Taylor. Ascomycota R.H. Whittaker 1959: Quart. Review Biol. 34: 220, converted clade name. PhyloCode Companion Volume, International Code of Phylogenetic Nomenclature, Version 4b, Philip D. Cantino and Kevin de Queiroz, eds. Accepted.
McLaughlin, D. J., T. K. A. Kumar, M. Blackwell, P. Letcher and R. Roberson. Subcellular structure and biochemical characters in fungal phylogeny. Mycota, Volume VII B, Elsevier, London accepted.
Urbina, H., Robert Frank, and M. Blackwell.Scheffersomyces cryptocercus: A new xylose-fermenting yeast associated with the gut of wood roaches and new combinations in the Sugiyamaella yeast clade. Mycologia in press. doi: 10.3852/12-094
Urbina, H., and M. Blackwell. Multilocus phylogenetic study of the Scheffersomyces yeast clade and characterization of the n-terminal region of xylose reductase gene. 2012. PLoS ONE 7(6): e39128. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039128)
Schoch, C. L., K. A. Seifert, S. Huhndorf, V. Robert, J. L. Spouge, C. A. Levesque, W. Chen, and the Barcoding Consortium [Elena Bolchacova, Kerstin Voigt, Pedro W. Crous, Andrew N. Miller, Michael J. Wingfield, M. Catherine Aime, Kwang-Deuk An, Feng-Yan Bai, Robert W. Barreto, Dominik Begerow, Marie-Josée Bergeron, Meredith Blackwell, Teun Boekhout, Mesfin Bogale, Nattawut Boonyuen, Ana R. Burgaz, Bart Buyck, Lei Cai, G. Cardinali, Priscila Chaverri, Brian J. Coppins, Ana Crespo, Paloma Cubas, Craig Cummings, Ulrike Damm, Z. Wilhelm de Beer, G. Sybren de Hoog, Ruth Del-Prado, Bryn Dentinger, Javier Diéguez-Uribeondo, Pradeep K. Divakar, Brian Douglas, Margarita Dueñas, V. Duong, Tuan A. Duong, Ursula Eberhardt, Joan Edwards, Mostafa S. Elshahed, Katerina Fliegerova, Manohar Furtado, Miguel A. García, Zai-Wei Ge, Gareth W. Griffith, K. Griffiths, Johannes Z. Groenewald, Marizeth Groenewald, Martin Grube, Marieka Gryzenhout, Liang-Dong Guo, Ferry Hagen, Sarah Hambleton, Richard C. Hamelin, Karen Hansen, Paul Harrold, Gregory Heller, Cesar Herrera, Kazuyuki Hirayama, Yuuri Hirooka, Hsiao-Man Ho, Kerstin Hoffmann, Valérie Hofstetter, Filip Högnabba, Peter M. Hollingsworth, Seung-Beom Hong, Kentaro Hosaka, Jos Houbraken, Karen Hughes, Seppo Huhtinen, Kevin D. Hyde, Timothy James, Joan E. Johnson, Peter R. Johnston, E.B. Gareth Jones, Laura J. Kelly, Paul M. Kirk, Dániel G. Knapp, Urmas Kõljalg, Gábor M. Kovács, Cletus P. Kurtzman, Sara Landvik, Steven D. Leavitt, Audra S. Liggenstoffer, Kare Liimatainen, Lorenzo Lombard, J. Jennifer Luangsa-ard, H. Thorsten Lumbsch, Harinad Maganti, Sajeewa S. N. Maharachchikumbura, María P. Martin, Tom W. May, Alistair R. McTaggart, Andrew S. Methven, Wieland Meyer, Jean-Marc Moncalvo, Suchada Mongkolsamrit, László G. Nagy, R. Henrik Nilsson, Tuula Niskanen, Ildikó Nyilasi, Gen Okada, Izumi Okane, Ibai Olariaga, Jürgen Otte, Tamás Papp, Duckhul Park, Tamás Petkovits, Raquel Pino-Bodas, C. Qing, William Quaedvlieg, Huzefa A. Raja, Dirk Redecker, Tara L. Rintoul, Constantino Ruibal, Jullie M. Sarmiento-Ramírez, Imke Schmitt, Arthur Schüßler, Carol Shearer, Kozue Sotome, Franck O.P. Stefani, Soili Stenroos, Benjamin Stielow, Herbert Stockinger, Satinee Suetrong, Sung-Oui Suh, Gi-Ho Sung, Motofumi Suzuki, Kazuaki Tanaka, Leho Tedersoo, M. Teresa Telleria, Eric Tretter, Wendy A. Untereiner, Hector Urbina, Csaba Vágvölgyi, Agathe Vialle, Grit Walther, Qi-Ming Wang, Yan Wang, Bevan S. Weir, Michael Weiß, Merlin M. White, Jianping Xu, Rebecca Yahr, Z.-L. Yang, Andrey Yurkov, Juan-Carlos Zamora, Ning Zhang, Wen-Ying Zhuang, David Schindel] 2012. The internal transcribed spacer as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi. PNAS. 109:6241-6246.
Vega, F. E., N. V. Meyling, J. J. Luangsa-ard, and M. Blackwell. 2012. Fungal Entomopathogens. p. 171-220. In Insect Pathology, 2nd ed., F. E. Vega and H. K. Kaya (Eds.), Elsevier, San Diego.
Blackwell, M. 2011. The good, the bad, and the ugly: Fungi mold your world. p. 116-140. In: Fungal Diseases: An Emerging Threat to Human, Animal, and Plant Health: Workshop Summary. Forum on Microbial Threats, Board on Global Health. Rapporteurs, LA Olsen, E. R. Choffnes, D. A. Relman, and L. Pray, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Blackwell, M. 2011. The Fungi: 1, 2, 3, … 5.1 million species? p. 116-140 In: Fungal Diseases: An Emerging Threat to Human, Animal, and Plant Health: Workshop Summary. Forum on Microbial Threats, Board on Global Health. Rapporteurs, LA Olsen, E. R. Choffnes, D. A. Relman, and L. Pray, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, Washington, D.C. [Reprint of Blackwell, M. 2011. The Fungi: 1, 2, 3, … 5.1 million species? Biodiversity Special Issue, American Journal of Botany: 98:426-438.]
Kumar T. K. A., R. Healy, J. W. Spatafora, M. Blackwell, D. J. McLaughlin. Orbilia ultrastructure and the phylogeny of Pezizomycotina. Mycologia 104:462-476. doi:10.3852/11-213
Kumar T. K. A., J. A. Crow, T. J. Wennblom, M. Abril, P. M. Letcher, M. Blackwell, R. W. Roberson, D. J. McLaughlin. 2011. An ontology of fungal subcellular traits. American Journal of Botany 98: 1504–1510.
Blackwell, M. 2011. The Fungi: 1, 2, 3, … 5.1 million species? Biodiversity Special Issue, American Journal of Botany: 98:426-438.
Nguyen, N. H., S.-O.Suh and M. Blackwell. 2011. Spathaspora Nguyen, Suh & Blackwell. p. 795-797. In: The Yeasts: A Taxonomic Study. Eds. C. Kurtzman, J. Fell, and T. Boekhout. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Husseneder, C., H.-Y. Ho, and M. Blackwell. 2010. Comparison of the bacterial symbiont composition of the Formosan subterranean termite from its native and introduced range. Open Microbiology Journal 4:53-66. doi: 10.2174/1874285801004010053.
Weete, J. D., M. Abril, and M. Blackwell. 2010. Phylogenetic Distribution of Fungal Sterols. PLoS ONE 5(5): e10899. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010899.
Vega, F. E., M. S. Goettel, M. Blackwell, D. Chandler, M. A. Jackson, S. Keller, M. Koike, N. K. Maniania, A. Monzón, B. H. Ownley, J. K. Pell, D. E. N. Rangel, and H. E. Roy. 2009. Fungal entomopathogens: new insights on their ecology. Fungal Ecology 2:149-159.
Blackwell, M. 2010. Fungal evolution and taxonomy. Biological Control 55:7-16.
Blackwell, M. 2010. Fungal evolution and taxonomy. p. 7-16. In: The Ecology of Fungal Entomopathogens. Eds., Roy, H. E., F. E. Vega, D. Chandler, M. S. Goettel, J. K. Pell, and E. Wajnberg. Eds. Springer. [reprint of Blackwell, M. 2010. Fungal evolution and taxonomy. Biological Control 55:7-16.]
Blackwell, M. 2010. Phylogeny of filamentous fungi deduced from analysis of molecular characters: present and future. p. 50-54. In: The 100 years of the fungus collection MUCL: 1894-1994. Ed. G. L. Hennebert. Catholic University, Louvain, Belgium.
Roberson, R. W., M. Abril, M. Blackwell, P. Letcher, D. J. McLaughlin, R. R. Mouriño-Pérez, M. Riquelme, and M. Uchida. 2010. Hyphal Structure. p. 8-24. In: Cellular and Molecular Biology of Filamentous Fungi. Eds. Katherine Borkovich and Daniel Ebbole. ASM Press, Washington, D.C.
Blackwell, M. 2010. Fungal evolution and taxonomy. Biological Control 55:7-16.
Stajich, J. E., M. L. Berbee, M. Blackwell, D. S. Hibbett, T. Y. James, J. W. Spatafora, J. W. Taylor. 2009. The Fungi. Current Biology 19:R840-R845.
Schoch, C. L., G.-H. Sung, F. L. López-Giráldez, J. P. Towsend, J. Miadlikowska, V. Rie Hofstetter, B. Robbertse, P. B. Matheny, F. Kauff, Z. Wang, C. Gueidan, R. M. Andrie, K. Trippe, L. M. Ciufetti, A. Wynns, E. Fraker, B. P. Hodkinson, G. Bonito, J. Z. Groenewald, M. Arsanlou, G. S. De Hoog, P. W. Crous, D. Hewitt, D. H. Pfister, K. Peterson, M. Grysenhout, M. J. Wingfield, A. Aptroot, S.-O. Suh, M. Blackwell, D. M. Hillis, G. W. Griffith, L. A. Castlebury, A. Y. Rossman, H. T. Lumbsch, R. L. Lücking, B. Büdel, A. Rauhut, P. Diederich, D. Ertz, D. M. Geiser, K. Hosaka, P. Inderbitzin, J. Kohlmeyer, B. Volkmann-Kohlmeyer, L. Mostert, K. O’Donnell, H. Sipman, J. D. Rogers, R. A. Shoemaker, J. Sugiyama, R. C. Summerbell, W. Untereiner, P. R. Johnston, S. Stenroos, A. Zuccaro, P. S. Dyer, P. D. Crittenden, M. S. Cole, K. Hansen, J. M. Trappe, R. Yahr, F. Lutzoni, and J. W. Spatafora. 2009. The Ascomycota Tree of Life: A Phylum-wide Phylogeny Clarifies the Origin and Evolution of Fundamental Reproductive and Ecological Traits. Systematic Biology 58:224–239.
Vega, F. E., M. S. Goettel, M. Blackwell, D. Chandler, M. A. Jackson, S. Keller, M. Koike, N. K. Maniania, A. Monzón, B. H. Ownley, J. K. Pell, D. E. N. Rangel, and H. E. Roy. 2009. Fungal entomopathogens: new insights on their ecology. Fungal Ecology 2:149–159.
Mandeel, Q., and M. Blackwell. Rare or rarely collected? Comatricha mirabilis from the arid desert of Bahrain. Mycologia 100:742--745.
Suh, S. -O., Nguyen, N. H., and Blackwell, M. 2008. Yeasts isolated from plant-associated beetles and other insects: seven novel Candida species near Candida albicans. FEMS Yeast Research 8:88–102.
Nguyen, N. H., S.-O. Suh, and M. Blackwell. 2007. Five novel Candida species and the yeasts associated with neuropterous insects. Mycologia 99:842–858.
Fuentefria, Alexandre M., Sung-Oui Suh, Melissa F. Landell, Josiane Faganello, Augusto Schrank, Marilene H. Vainstein, Meredith Blackwell, and Patricia Valente. 2007. Trichosporon insectorum sp. nov., a new anamorphic basidiomycetous killer yeast. Mycological Research 112:93–99.
Blackwell, M., S.-O. Suh, and J. B Nardi. 2007. Fungi in the Hidden Environment: The gut of beetles. p. 665-693. In: British Mycological Symposia: Fungi in the Environment. Ed. Geoffrey Gadd, Sarah C. Watkinson, and Paul S. Dyer. Cambridge University Press, UK.
Hibbett, D. M., M. Binder, J. F. Bischoff, M. Blackwell, P. F. Cannon, O. Eriksson, S. Huhndorf, T. Y. James, P. M. Kirk, R. Lücking, T. Lumbsch, F. Lutzoni, P. B. Matheny, D. J. McLaughlin, M. J. Powell, S. Redhead, C.d L. Schoch, J. W. Spatafora, J. A. Stalpers, R. Vilgalys, M. C. Aime, A. Aptroot, R. Bauer, D. Begerow, G. L. Benny, L. A. Castlebury, P. W. Crous, Y.-C. Dai, W. Gams, D. M. Geiser, G. W. Griffith, D. L. Hawksworth, V. Hofstetter, K. Hosaka, R. A. Humber, K. Hyde, U. Kõljalg, C. P. Kurtzman, K.-H. Larsson, R. Lichtwardt, J. Longcore, A. Miller, J.-M. Moncalvo, S. Mozley Standridge, F. Oberwinkler, E. Parmasto, J. D. Rogers, L. Ryvarden, J. P. Sampaio, A. Schuessler, J. Sugiyama, J. W. Taylor, R. G. Thorn, L. Tibell, W. A. Untereiner, C. Walker, Z. Wang, A. Weir, M. Weiss, M. White, K. Winka , Y.-J. Yao, N. Zhang. 2007. A Higher-Level Phylogenetic Classification of the Fungi. Mycological Research 54:2409–2429.
Suh, S.-O., N. H. Nguyen, and M. Blackwell. 2006. A yeast clade near Candida kruisii uncovered: nine novel Candida species associated with basidioma-feeding beetles. Mycological Research 110:1379–1394.
Suh, S.-O., M. Blackwell, C. P. Kurtzman, and M.-A. Lachance. 2006. Phylogenetics of Saccharomycetales, the ascomycete yeasts. Mycologia 98:1008–1019.
Nguyen, N. H., S.-O. Suh, C. J. Marshall, and M. Blackwell. 2006. Morphological and ecological similarities: wood-boring beetles associated with novel xylose-fermenting yeasts, Spathaspora passalidarum gen. nov., sp. nov. and Candida jeffriesii sp. nov. Mycological Research 110:1232–1241.
Nguyen, N. H., S.-O. Suh, C. K. Erbil, and M. Blackwell. 2006. Metschnikowia noctiluminum sp. nov., Metschnikowia corniflorae sp. nov., and Candida chrysomelidarum sp. nov., isolated from green lacewings and beetles. Mycological Research 110:346–356.
Nardi, J. B., C. M. Bee, L. A. Miller, N. H. Nguyen, S.-O. Suh, and M. Blackwell. 2006. Communities of microbes that inhabit the changing hind gut landscape of a subsocial beetle. Arthropod Structure and Development 35:57–68.
Nguyen, N. H., S.-O. Suh, C. K. Erbil, and M. Blackwell. 2006. Metschnikowia noctiluminum sp. nov., Metschnikowia corniflorae sp. nov., and Candida chrysomelidarum sp. nov., isolated from green lacewings and beetles. Mycological Research 110:346–356.
Suh, S.-O., and M. Blackwell. 2006. Three new asexual arthroconidial yeasts, Geotrichum carabidarum sp. nov., Geotrichum histeridarum sp. nov., and Geotrichum cucujoidarum sp. nov., isolated from the gut of insects. Mycological Research 110:220–228.
Suh, S.-O., and M. Blackwell. 2005. Four new yeasts in the Candida mesenterica clade associated with basidiocarp-feeding beetles. Mycologia 97:167–177.
Suh, S.-O., N. H. Nguyen, and M. Blackwell. 2005. Nine new Candida species near Candida membranifaciens isolated from insects. Mycological Research 109:1045–1056.
Suh, S.-O., and M. Blackwell. 2005. Beetles as hosts for underscribed yeasts. p. 244–256. In: Insect-Fungal Associations: Ecology and Evolution, Eds. F. E. Vega and Meredith Blackwell. Oxford University Press, New York.
Weir, A., and M. Blackwell. 2005. Phylogeny of arthropod ectoparasitic ascomycetes. p. 119–145. In: Insect-Fungal Associations: Ecology and Evolution, Eds. F. E. Vega and Meredith Blackwell. Oxford University Press, New York.
Suh, S.-O., J. V. McHugh, D. Pollock, and M. Blackwell. 2005. The beetle gut: a hyperdiverse source of novel yeasts. Mycological Research 109:261–265.
Suh, S.-O., and M. Blackwell. Three new beetle-associated yeasts in the Pichia guilliermondii clade. Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) Yeast Research 5:87–95.
Suh, S.-O., J. V McHugh, and M. Blackwell. 2004. Expansion of the Candida tanzawaensis yeast clade: 16 novel Candida species from basidiocarp-feeding beetles. International Journal of Systematics and Evolutionary Microbiology 54:409–2429 http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/misc/pip.shtml.
Munkacsi, A. B., J. J. Pan, P. Villesen, U. G. Mueller, M. Blackwell, and D. J. McLaughlin. Convergent coevolution in the domestication of coral mushrooms by fungus-growing ants. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 71:1777–1782.
Posada, F, F. E. Vega, S. A. Rehner, M. Blackwell, D. Weber, S.-O. Suh, and R. A. Humber. 2004. Syspastospora parasitica on Beauveria bassiana attacking the Colorado potato beetle. Journal of Insect Science: 4:24 http://www.insectscience.org/.
Suh, S.-O., C. M. Gibson, and M. Blackwell. Metschnikowia chrysoperlae sp. nov., Candida picachoensis sp. nov. and Candida pimensis sp. nov., isolated from the green lacewings Chrysoperla comanche and Chrysoperla carnea (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). International Journal of Systematics and Evolutionary Microbiology 54:1883–1890 http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/misc/pip.shtml.
Blackwell, M., and J. W. Spatafora 2004. Fungi and their Allies. p. 7–21. In: Biodiversity of Fungi: Standard Methods for Inventory and Monitoring. Eds. G. M. Mueller, G. F. Bills, M. Foster. Academic Press, New York.
Benjamin, R. K., M. Blackwell, I. Chapella, R. A. Humber, K. G. Jones, K. A. Klepzig, R. W. Lichtwardt, D. Malloch, H. Noda, R. A. Roeper, J. W. Spatafora, A. Weir. 2004. The search for diversity of insects and other arthropod associated fungi. p. 395–433. In: Biodiversity of Fungi: Standard Methods for Inventory and Monitoring. Eds. G. M. Mueller, G. F. Bills, M. Foster. Academic Press, New York.
Suh, S.-O., M. M. White, N. H. Nguyen, and M. Blackwell. 2004. The identification of Enteroramus dimorphus: a xylose-fermenting yeast attached to the gut of beetles. Mycologia 96:756–760.
Bills, G., J. W. Spatafora, and M. Blackwell. 2004. Phylogeny of the Fungal Kingdom and Fungal-like Eukaryotes. p. 27–48. In: A Handbook of Industrial Mycology, Eds. An et al., Marcel-Dekker, New York.
Taylor, J. W., J. W. Spatafora, K. O'Donnell, F. Lutzoni, T. James, D. S. Hibbett, D. Geiser, T. D. Bruns, and M. Blackwell. 2004. The Fungi. p. 171–194. Eds. J. Cracraft and M. Donoghue. The Tree of Life, Oxford University Press, UK.
Zhang, N., S.-O. Suh, and M. Blackwell. 2003. Microorganisms in the gut of beetles: Evidence from molecular cloning. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 84:226–233. [Abstract]
Benny, G. L, and M. Blackwell. 2004. Lobosporangium: sporangium development and a new name for Echinosporangium Malloch. Mycologia 96:143–149.
Diederich, P., B. Schultheis, and M. Blackwell. 2003. Marchandiobasidium aurantiacum gen. et sp. nov., the teleomorph of Marchandiomyces aurantiacus (Basidiomycota, Ceratobasidiales). Mycological Research 107:523–527.
Blackwell, M., D. Henk, and K.G. Jones. 2003. Extreme morphological divergence: phylogenetic position of a termite ectoparasite. Mycologia 95:987–992.
Suh, S.-O., C. Marshall, J. V. McHugh, and M. Blackwell. 2003. Wood ingestion by passalid beetles in the presence of xylose-fermenting gut yeasts. Molecular Ecology 18:995–1000. [Abstract]
Blackwell, M., D. Henk, and K.G. Jones. 2003. Extreme morphological divergence: phylogenetic position of a termite ectoparasite. Mycologia 95:987–992.
Van Zandt, P. A., V. R. Townsend, C. E. Carlton, M. Blackwell, and S. Mopper. 2003. The lizard beetle Loberus impressus (Coleoptera, Languriidae) and its association with the seed capsules of Iris hexagona. Coleopterist's Bulletin 57:281–288.
Henk, D. A., A. Weir, and M. Blackwell. 2003. Laboulbeniopsis, an ectoparasite of termites newly recognized as a member of the Laboulbeniomycetes. Mycologia 95:561–564.
Zhang, Ning, and M. Blackwell. 2002. Molecular phylogeny of Melanospora corda and similar pyrenomycetous fungi. Mycological Research 106:148–155.
Zhang, Ning, and M. Blackwell. 2002. Population Structure of Dogwood Anthracnose Fungus. Phytopathology 92:1276–1283.
Blackwell, M., C. David, and S. Barker. 2001. The presence of glycine betaine and the dextrinoid reaction in basidiomata. Harvard Papers in Botany 6:35–42.
Rollins, F., K. G. Jones, P. Krokene, H. Solheim, and M. Blackwell. 2001. Phylogeny of asexual fungi associated with bark and ambrosia beetles. Mycologia 93:991–996. [Abstract]
Suh, S.-O., H. Noda, and M. Blackwell. 2001. Insect symbiosis: derivation of yeast-like endosymbionts within an entomopathogenic filamentous lineage. Molecular Biology and Evolution 18:995–1000. [Abstract and PDF with subscription]
Suh, S.-O., C. P.Kurtzman, and M. Blackwell. 2001. The status of Endomyces scopularum -- a filamentous fungus and two yeasts. Mycologia 93:316–321. [Abstract]
Weir, A., and M. Blackwell. 2001. Molecular data support the Laboulbeniales as a separate class of Ascomycota, Laboulbeniomycetes. Mycological Research 105:715–722.
Weir, A., and M. Blackwell. 2001. Extraction and PCR amplification of DNA from minute ectoparasitic fungi. Mycologia 93:802–806. [Abstract]
Zhang, N., and M. Blackwell. 2001. Molecular phylogeny of dogwood anthracnose fungus (Discula destructiva) and the Diaporthales. Mycologia 93:356–364. [Abstract]
Suh, S.-O., C. P. Kurtzman, and M. Blackwell. 2001. The status of Endomyces scopularum --a filamentous fungus and two yeasts. Mycologia 93:316–321.
Samuels, G. J., and M. Blackwell. 2000. The pyrenomycetes. The Mycota, vol. 7, part A, p. 221–255. Ed. D. J. McLaughlin and E. G. McLaughlin. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Blackwell, M. 2000. Perspective: Evolution: Terrestrial life --fungal from the start? Science 289 (5486): 1884–1885.
Jones, K. G., P. F. Dowd, and M. Blackwell. 1999. Polyphyletic origins of yeast-like endocytobionts from anobiid and cerambycid beetles. Mycological Research 103:542–546.
Suh, S.-O., K. G. Jones, and M. Blackwell. 1999. A Group I intron in nuclear small subunit rRNA gene of Cryptendoxyla hypophloia: Evidence for a new major class of Group I introns. Journal of Molecular Evolution 48:493–500. [Abstract] [PDF]
Suh, S.-O. & Blackwell, M. 1999. Molecular phylogeny of the cleistothecial fungi placed in Cephalothecaceae and Pseudeurotiaceae. Mycologia 91:836–848. [Abstract]
Suh, S.-O., Spatafora, J. W., Ochiel, G. R. S., Evans, H. C. & Blackwell, M. 1998. Molecular phylogenetic study of a termite pathogen Cordycepioideus bisporus. Mycologia 90:611–617. [Abstract]
Jones, K. G., and M. Blackwell. 1998. Phylogenetic analysis of ambrosial species in the genus Raffaeleabased on 18S rDNA sequences. Mycological Research 102:661–665.
Blackwell, M., and K. G. Jones. 1997. Taxonomic diversity and interactions of insect-associated ascomycetes. Biodiversity and Conservation 6:689–699.
Jones, K. G., and M. Blackwell. 1996. Ribosomal DNA sequence analysis excludes Symbiotaphrinafrom the major lineages of ascomycete yeasts. Mycologia 88:212–218.
Cassar, S. C., and M. Blackwell. 1996. Non-monophyly of ambrosia fungi in Ambrosiella. Mycologia 88:596–601.
Blackwell, M. 1994. Minute mycological mysteries: The influence of arthropods on the lives of fungi. Mycologia 86:1–17. [PDF]
Spatafora, J. W., and M. Blackwell. 1994. Molecular systematics of fissitunicate perithecial ascomycetes. p. 233–242. In: Ascomycete Systematics: Problems and Perspectives in the Nineties. Ed., Hawksworth, D.L. Plenum Press, New York.
Blackwell, M., and J. W. Spatafora. 1994. Molecular data sets and broad taxon sampling in detecting morphological convergence. p. 243–248. In: Ascomycete Systematics: Problems and Perspectives in the Nineties. Ed., Hawksworth, D.L. Plenum Press, New York.
Malloch, D., and M. Blackwell. 1993. Dispersal biology of ophiostomatoid fungi. p. 195–206. In: Ceratocystis and Ophiostoma: Taxonomy, Ecology and Pathology. Eds., Wingfield, M.J., K.A. Seifert, and J.F. Webber. APS, St. Paul.
Blackwell, M., J. W. Spatafora, D. Malloch, and J. W. Taylor. 1993. Consideration of higher taxonomic relationships involving Pyxidiophora. p. 105–108. In: Ceratocystis and Ophiostoma: Taxonomy, Ecology and Pathology. Eds., Wingfield, M.J., K.A. Seifert, and J.F. Webber. APS, St. Paul.
Blackwell, M., and R. L. Chapman. 1993. Obtaining and storing fungal and algal samples. p. 65–77. In: Molecular Evolution: Producing the Biochemical Data (Methods in Enzymology, Vol. 224). Eds., Zimmer, E.A., T.J. White, R.L. Cann, and A.C. Wilson. Academic Press, New York.
Blackwell, M. 1993. Phylogenetic systematics of ascomycetes. 1993. p. 93–103. In: The Fungal Holomorph. Eds., Reynolds, D.R., and J.W. Taylor. CAB International, Wallingford, U.K.
Spatafora, J.W., and M. Blackwell. 1993. The polyphyletic origins of ophiostomatoid fungi. Mycological Research 98:1–9.
Spatafora, J.W., and M. Blackwell. 1993. Molecular systematics of unitunicate perithecial ascomycetes: The Clavicipitales-Hypocreales connection. Mycologia 85:912–922.
Kaltenboeck, B., J.W. Spatafora, X. Zhang, K. Kousoulas, M. Blackwell, and J. Storz. 1992. Efficient production of single-stranded DNA as long as 2 kb for sequencing of PCR-amplified DNA. Biotechniques 12:164–171.
Malloch, D., and M. Blackwell. 1992. Dispersal of fungal diaspores. p. 147–171. In: The Fungal Community: Its Organization and Role in the Ecosystem. 2nd ed. Eds., Carroll, G.C., and D.T. Wicklow. Dekker, New York.
Blackwell, M., and D. Malloch. 1991. Life history and arthropod dispersal of a coprophilous Stylopage.Mycologia 83:360–366.
Hanula, J.L., T.G. Andreadis, and M. Blackwell. 1991. Entoderma colletosporiumgen. and sp. nov., a unique cuticular fungus infecting Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 58:327–334.
Van Eeckhout, E., M.C. Rush, and M. Blackwell. 1991. Effects of rate and timing of fungicide applications on incidence and severity of sheath blight and grain yield of rice. Plant Disease 75:1254–1261.
Blackwell, M., and D. Malloch. 1990. Discovery of a Pyxidiophora with Acariniola-type ascospores. Mycological Research 94:415–417.
Rossi, W., and M. Blackwell. 1990. Fungi associated with African earwigs and their relationship to South American forms. Mycologia 82:138–140.
Malloch, D., and M. Blackwell. 1990. Kathistes,a new genus of pleomorphic ascomycetes. Canadian Journal of Botany 68:1712–1721.
Blackwell, M., J. C. Moser, and J. Wisniewski. 1989. Ascospores of Pyxidiophoraon mites associated with beetles in trees and wood. Mycological Research 92:397–403.
Blackwell, M., and D. Malloch. 1989. Pyxidiophora: A link between the Laboulbeniales and hyphal ascomycetes. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden (Rogerson Festschrift) 49:23–32. [PDF]
Blackwell, M., and D. Malloch. 1989. Pyxidiophora: Life histories and arthropod associations of two species. Canadian Journal of Botany 67:2552–2562. [PDF]
Blackwell, M., and D. Malloch. 1989. Similarity of Amphoromorpha and secondary capilliconidia of Basidiobolus. Mycologia 81:735–741.
Blackwell, M. 1988. C. J. Alexopoulos. A brief history. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 90:153–158.
Gilbertson, R. L., and M. Blackwell. 1988. Some new or unusual fungi from the Gulf Coast region. Myxotaxon 33:375–386.
Gilbertson, R. L., and M. Blackwell. 1987. Notes on wood-rotting fungi on junipers in the Gulf Coast Region. II. Mycotaxon 28:369–402.
Waller, D. A., J. P. LaFage, R. L. Gilbertson, and M. Blackwell. 1987. Wood decay fungi associated with subterranean termites in Louisiana. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 89:417-424.
Rossi, W., and M. Blackwell. 1986. New species of Laboulbeniafrom termite hosts in Africa. Mycologia 78:142–145.
Blackwell, M., and W. Rossi. 1986. Biogeography of fungal ectoparasites of termites. Mycotaxon 25:581–601.
Rejmankóva, E., M. Blackwell, and D. C. Culley. 1986. Dynamics of fungal infection in duckweeds (Lemnaceae). Veroff Geobotanisches Institute, ETH, Zürich (E. Landolt Festschrift) 87:178–189.
Blackwell, M., J. R. Bridges, J. C. Moser, and T. J. Perry. 1986. Hyperphoretic dispersal of a Pyxidiophoraanamorph. Science 232:993–995.
Blackwell, M., T.J. Perry, J.R. Bridges, and J.C. Moser. 1986. A new species of Pyxidiophoraand its Thaxteriolaanamorph. Mycologia 78:607–614.
Blackwell, M., and R. L. Gilbertson. 1985. Quasiconcha reticulata and its anamorph from conifer roots. Mycologia 77:50–54.
Blackwell, M., and R. L. Gilbertson. 1985. A new species of Inonotus (Aphyllophorales, Hymenochaetaceae) on oak in Louisiana. Mycotaxon 23:285–290.
Gilbertson, R. L., and M. Blackwell. 1985. Notes on wood-rotting fungi on junipers in the Gulf Coast region. Mycotaxon 24:325–348.
Gilbertson, R. L., and M. Blackwell. 1984. Two new basidiomycetes on living live oak in the southeast and Gulf Coast region. Mycotaxon 20:85–93.
Blackwell, M., J. Vandewaa, and M. Reynolds. 1984. Survival of myxomycete sclerotia after exposure to high temperatures. Mycologia 76:752–754.
Blackwell, M., and R. L. Gilbertson. 1984. New information on Cordycepioideus bisporus and C. octosporus. Mycologia 76:763–765.
Blackwell, M., and R. L. Gilbertson. 1984. Distribution and sporulation phenology of Myxomycetes in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. Microbial Ecology 10:369–377.
Wheeler, Q., and M. Blackwell. 1984. Historical studies of fungus-insect relationships: an introduction to phylogenetic systematics. p. 5–41. In: Fungus-Insect Relationships: Perspectives in Ecology and Evolution. Eds., Wheeler, Q., and M. Blackwell. Columbia University Press, New York.
Blackwell, M. 1984. Myxomycete life cycles and arthropod spore dispersers. p. 67–90. In: Fungus-Insect Relationships: Perspectives in Ecology and Evolution. Eds., Wheeler, Q., and M. Blackwell. Columbia University Press, New York.
Blackwell, M., T. Laman, and R. L. Gilbertson. 1982. Spore dispersal of Fuligo septica (Myxomycetes) by lathridiid beetles. Mycotaxon 14:57–60.
Gilbertson, R. L., and M. Blackwell. 1982. Theleporus ajovalliensis(Aphyllophorales: Corticiaceae), a new wood-rotting fungus on ocotillo in the Sonoran Desert. Mycotaxon 15:249–253.
Blackwell, M., and R. L. Gilbertson. 1981. Cordycepioideus octosporous sp. nov., a termite possible pathogen from Jalisco, Mexico. Mycologia 73:358–362.
Barr, M. E., and M. Blackwell. 1980. A new genus in the Lophiaceae. Mycologia 72:1224–1227.
Blackwell, M. 1980. Developmental morphology and taxonomic characters of Arthrorhynchus nycteribiaeand A. eucampsipodae(Laboulbeniales). Mycologia 72:143–158.
Blackwell, M. 1980. Distribution, host preference, and incidence of Arthrorhynchus nycteribiae and A. eucampsipodae (Laboulbeniales). Mycologia 72:159–168.
Blackwell, M. 1980. New records of termite-associated fungi from Georgia. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 35:101–104.
Blackwell, M., and R. L. Gilbertson. 1980. Didymium eremophilum:a new myxomycete from the Sonoran Desert. Mycologia 72:791–797.
Blackwell, M., and R. L. Gilbertson. 1980. Sonoran Desert Myxomycetes. Mycotaxon 11:139–149.
Blackwell, M., R. Samson, and J. W. Kimbrough. 1980. Termitariopsis cavernosa,gen. et sp. nov., a sporodochial fungus ectoparasitic on ants. Mycotaxon 12:97–104.
Blackwell, M., and A. Busard. 1978. The use of pigments as a taxonomic character to distinguish species of the Trichiaceae (Myxomycetes). Mycotaxon 7:61–67.
Blackwell, M., and J. W. Kimbrough. 1978. Hormiscioideus filamentosusgen. et sp. nov., a termite-infecting fungus from Brazil. Mycologia 70:1273–1280.
Blackwell, M., and J. W. Kimbrough. 1976. Ultrastructure of the termite-associated fungus Laboulbeniopsis termitarius. Mycologia 68:541–550.
Blackwell, M., and J. W. Kimbrough. 1976. A developmental study of the termite-associated fungus Coreomycetopsis oedipus. Mycologia 68:551–558.
Ingram, L. O., G. J. Olson, and M. Blackwell. 1975. Isolation of a small-cell mutant in the blue-green bacterium Agmenellum quadruplicatum. Journal of Bacteriology 123:743–746.
Blackwell, M., and C. J. Alexopoulos. 1975. Taxonomic studies in the Myxomycetes. IV. Protophysarum phloiogenum, a new genus and species of the Physaraceae. Mycologia 57:32–37.
Aldrich, H. C., and M. Blackwell. 1975. Resistant structures in the Myxomycetes. p. 413–462. In: The Fungal Spore: Form and Function. Eds., Hess, W. M., and J. Weber. Wiley, N.Y.
Ingram, L. O., and M. Blackwell. 1974. Macromolecular requirements for the physical initiation of cell division in a filamentous mutant of Agmenellum quadruplicatum. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 355:295-302.
Blackwell, M. 1974. A new species of Licea (Myxomycetes). Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science (Alexopoulos Festschrift) 81:6.
Blackwell, M. 1974. An ultrastructural study of stalk development in a myxomycete, Protophysarum phoiogenum. Archives for Microbiology 99:331–334.
Alexopoulos, C. J., and M. Blackwell. 1968. Taxonomic studies in the Myxomycetes. II. Physarina. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Society (Couch Festschrift) 84:48–51.

Other Publications:

Gilbertson, R.L., and M. Blackwell. 2009. George Baker Cummins 1904–2007. Mycologia 101:745–749.
Blackwell, M., E. Simmons, and S. Huhndorf. 2009. Margaret Elizabeth Barr Bigelow 1923–2008.
Mycologia 101:281–283.
Bidartondo, M.I. et al. (250 authors including M. Blackwell as third alphabetically listed author). 2008. Preserving accuracy in GenBank. Science 319:1616. [Letter to Science concerning incorrectly named sequences in GenBank]
Blackwell, M. 2007. Henry Carl Aldrich: Odyssey of a Myxomycetologist. Mycologia 99:152–155.
Vega, F. E., and M. Blackwell. 2005. Prospects for research on fungi and insects. P. 293–295. In: Insect–Fungal Associations: Ecology and Evolution, Eds. F. E. Vega and Meredith Blackwell. Oxford University Press, NY.
Blackwell, M, J. Spatafora, and J. Taylor. 2006. RCN: A Phylogeny for Kingdom Fungi (Deep Hypha). Inoculum: Newsletter of the Mycological Society of America 57(3):1–3.
Blackwell, M. 2006. C.J.A. –The last mycologist to be BSA President. Plant Science Bulletin,
The Botanical Society of America 52:2–11.
Blackwell, M. 2006. How many yeasts? Microbiology Today. Quarterly Magazine of the Society for General Microbiology 33:160–164.
Blackwell, M., and F. E. Vega. 2005. Insect-fungal interactions. p. xiii-xvii. In: Insect-Fungal Associations: Ecology and Evolution, Eds. F. E. Vega and Meredith Blackwell. Oxford University Press, NY.
Blackwell, M. 2002. The Fungi. In: Encyclopedia of Evolution, Vol. 1. Ed. Mark Pagel. Oxford University Press, New York.
Blackwell, M. 2001. The yeasts, a taxonomic study, fourth edition, by C.P. Kurtzman and J.W. Fell 1998, Elsevier, New York. (Book review). Mycopathologia 149:157–158.
Blackwell, M., H. H. Burdsall, Jr., J. P. Lindsey, K. K. Nakasone, and J. G. Palmer. 2001. A celebration of over 50 years in mycology. A tribute to Robert Lee Gilbertson: Introduction. Harvard Papers in Botany 6:5–13.
Blackwell, M. 2000. Eumycota. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. McGraw-Hill, New York.
Blackwell, Meredith. 1996. Writing proposals to appeal to the reviewer. Inoculum: Newsletter of the Mycological Society of America 47(1). From an MSA symposium, Keys to Success: What Ph.D. students in mycology need to know (can be searched from MSA web site home page).

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