Wieland Meyer

Research interests

Publications

• Fungal taxonomy and sequence-based nomenclature

  Nature Microbiology · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-021-00888-x

• Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding?

  IMA Fungus · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1186/s43008-020-00033-z

• CCMetagen: comprehensive and accurate identification of eukaryotes and prokaryotes in metagenomic data

  Genome biology · 2020 · 10.1186/s13059-020-02014-2

• The Case for Adopting the “Species Complex” Nomenclature for the Etiologic Agents of Cryptococcosis

  mSphere · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00357-16

• Scedosporium and Lomentospora: an updated overview of underrated opportunists

  Medical Mycology · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1093/mmy/myx113

• One fungus, which genes? Development and assessment of universal primers for potential secondary fungal DNA barcodes

  Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.3767/003158515x689135

• The Skin of Domestic Mammals as a Model for the Human Skin, with Special Reference to the Domestic Pig1

  Current problems in dermatology · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1159/000401274

• International Society of Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM)-ITS reference DNA barcoding database—the quality controlled standard tool for routine identification of human and animal pathogenic fungi

  Medical Mycology · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1093/mmy/myv008

• Finding needles in haystacks: linking scientific names, reference specimens and molecular data for Fungi

  Database · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1093/database/bau061

• Cryptococcus gattii Infections

  Clinical Microbiology Reviews · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1128/cmr.00126-13

• Ancient Dispersal of the Human Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus gattii from the Amazon Rainforest

  PLoS ONE · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0071148

• MycoBank gearing up for new horizons

  IMA Fungus · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.5598/imafungus.2013.04.02.16

• Genome Variation in Cryptococcus gattii, an Emerging Pathogen of Immunocompetent Hosts

  mBio · 2011 · 10.1128/mbio.00342-10

• The Amsterdam Declaration on Fungal Nomenclature

  IMA Fungus · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.5598/imafungus.2011.02.01.14

• Consensus multi-locus sequence typing scheme forCryptococcus neoformansandCryptococcus gattii

  Medical Mycology · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1080/13693780902953886

• Not Just Little Adults: Candidemia Epidemiology, Molecular Characterization, and Antifungal Susceptibility in Neonatal and Pediatric Patients

  PEDIATRICS · 2009 · 10.1542/peds.2008-2055

• Sequence-Based Identification of Aspergillus, Fusarium , and Mucorales Species in the Clinical Mycology Laboratory: Where Are We and Where Should We Go from Here?

  Journal of Clinical Microbiology · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.01685-08

• A rare genotype of Cryptococcus gattii caused the cryptococcosis outbreak on Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada)

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0402981101

• Survey of Simple Sequence Repeats in Completed Fungal Genomes

  Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2004 · 10.1093/molbev/msi057

• Molecular Typing of IberoAmericanCryptococcus neoformansIsolates

  Emerging infectious diseases · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0902.020246

• Hybrid genotypes in the pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans

  Microbiology · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-147-4-891

• Molecular typing of global isolates ofCryptococcus neoformans var.neoformans by polymerase chain reaction fingerprinting and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA — a pilot study to standardize techniques on which to base a detailed epidemiological survey

  Electrophoresis · 1999 · 10.1002/(sici)1522-2683(19990101)20:8<1790::aid-elps1790>3.0.co;2-2

• Molecular evidence that the asexual industrial fungus Trichoderma reesei is a clonal derivative of the ascomycete Hypocrea jecorina.

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1996 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.93.15.7755

• DNA Fingerprinting in Plants and Fungi

  Journal · 1995

• Hybridization probes for conventional DNA fingerprinting used as single primers in the polymerase chain reaction to distinguish strains of Cryptococcus neoformans

  Journal of Clinical Microbiology · 1993 · https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.31.9.2274-2280.1993

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