de Vienne, D. M., Hood, M. E., and Giraud, T. 2009. Phylogenetic determinants of potential host shifts in fungal pathogens. (in review - inquire).

Bernasconi, G., Antonovics, J., Biere, A., Charlesworth, D., Delph, L. F., Filatov, D., Giraud, T., Hood, M. E., Marais, G. A. B, McCauley, D., Pannell, J., Shykoff, J. A., Vyskot, B., Wolfe, L. Widmer, A. 2009. Re-emergence of Silene as a model system in ecology and evolution. (in review - inquire).

Gold, A., Giraud, T., and Hood, M. E. 2009. Within-host competitive exclusion among species of the anther-smut pathogen. (in review - inquire).

Johnson, L. J., Giraud, T., Anderson, R., and Hood, M. E. 2009. The impact of genome defense on mobile elements in Microbotryum. (in revision for second review - inquire).

Aguileta, G., Hood, M. E., Refrégier, G., and Giraud, T. 2009. Genome evolution in plant pathogenic and symbiotic fungi.  Advances in Botanical Research. (in press - inquire).

Devier, B., Aguileta, G., Hood, M. E., and Giraud, T. 2009. Ancient trans-specific polymorphism at pheromone receptor genes in basidiomycetes. Genetics (in press - inquire).

de Vienne, D. M., Refrégier, G., Hood, M. E., Guigue, A., Devier, B., Vercken, E., Smadja, C. Deseille, A., and Giraud, T. 2009. Hybrid sterility and inviability in the parasitic fungal species complex Microbotryum. Journal of Evolutionary Biology (in press - inquire).

Sloan, D. B., Giraud, T., and Hood, M. E. 2008. Maximized virulence in a sterilizing pathogen: the anther-smut fungus and its co-evolved hosts. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21: 1544-1554. (printed - inquire for a PDF).

Giraud, T., Refrégier, G., Le Gac, M., de Vienne, D. M., and Hood, M. E. 2008. Speciation in fungi. Fungal Genetics and Biology 45: 791–802. (printed - inquire for a PDF)

Giraud, T., Yockteng, R., López-Villavicencio, M., Refrégier, G., and Hood, M. E.  2008. The mating system of the anther smut fungus, Microbotryum violaceum: selfing under heterothallism. Eukaryotic Cell 7: 765–775. PDF

Refregier, G., Le Gac, M., Jabbour, F., Widmer, A., Shykoff, J. A., Yockteng, R., Hood, M. E., and Giraud, T. 2008. Cophylogeny of the anther smut fungi and their caryophyllaceous hosts: Prevalence of host shifts and importance of delimiting parasite species for inferring cospeciation. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:100. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-100. PDF

Giraud, T., Yockteng, R. Marthey, S., Chiapello, H., Jonot, O., Lopez-Villavicencio, M., Hood, M. E., De Vienne, D., Gendrault-Jacquemard, A., Wincker, P. and Dossat, C. 2008. Isolation of 60 polymorphic microsatellite loci in EST libraries of four sibling species of the phytopathogenic fungal complex Microbotryum. Molecular Ecology Resources 8: 387–392. (printed - inquire for a PDF)

López-Villavicencio, M., Jonot, O., Coantic, A., Hood, M. E., Enjalbert, J., and Giraud, T. 2007.  Multiple infections by related genotypes in natural populations of the anther smut fungus. PLoS Pathogen 3:e176. PDF

Yockteng, R, Marthey, S. Chiapello, H, Gendrault, A., Hood, M. E., Rodolphe, F., Wincker, P., Dossat, C., and Giraud, T. 2007. Expressed sequences tags of the anther smut fungus, Microbotryum violaceum, identify mating and pathogenicity gene. BMC Genomics 8: 272. PDF

Le Gac, M., Hood, M. E., and Giraud, T. 2007. Evolution of reproductive isolation within a parasitic fungal species complex. Evolution 61: 1781–1787. PDF

Cafuir, L., Antonovics, J., and Hood, M. E. 2007. Tissue culture and quantification of individual-level resistance to anther-smut disease in Silene vulgaris. International Journal of Plant Sciences 168: 415-419. PDF

Antonovics, J., Abbate, J., Howell Baker, C., Daley, D., Hood, M. E., Jenkins, C. E., Johnson, L. J., Murray, J. J., Panjeti, V., Rudolf, V. H. W., and Sloan, D. 2007. Evolution by any other name: antibiotic resistance and avoidance of the e-word. PLoS Biology 5: 137-140. PDF

Le Gac, M., Hood, M. E., Fournier, E., Giraud, T. 2007. Phylogenetic evidence of host-specific cryptic species in the anther smut fungus. Evolution 61: 15-26. PDF

Koskella, B., Giraud, T., and Hood, M. E. 2006. Pathogen relatedness affects the prevalence of within-host competition. American Naturalist 168: 121-126. PDF

Antonovics, J., Hood, M. E., and Howell Baker, C. 2006. Was the 1918 flu avian in origin? Nature 440: e9. PDF

Johnson, L. J., Antonovics, J., and Hood, M. E. 2005. The evolution of intratetrad mating rates. Evolution 59: 2525-2532. PDF

Lopez-Villavicencio, M., Enjalbert, E., Hood, M. E., Shykoff, J. A., Raquin, C., Giraud, T. 2005. The anther smut disease on Gypsophila repens: a case of parasite sub-optimal performance following a recent host shift? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18: 1293-1303. PDF

Hood, M. E., Katawczik, M., and Giraud, T. 2005. Repeat-induced point mutation and the population structure of transposable elements in Microbotryum violaceum. Genetics 170: 1081-1089. PDF

Hood, M. E. 2005. Repetitive DNA in the automictic fungus Microbotryum violaceum. Genetica 124: 1-10. PDF

Hood, M. E., Antonovics, J., and Koskella, B. 2004. Shared forces of sex chromosome evolution in haploid-mating and diploid-mating organisms. Genetics 168: 141-146. PDF

Hood, M. E. and Antonovics, J. 2004. Mating within the meiotic tetrad and the maintenance of genomic heterozygosity. Genetics 166: 1751-1759. PDF

Antonovics, J., Hood, M. E., Thrall, P., Abrams, J. Y, and Duthie, M. 2003. Herbarium studies on the distribution of anther-smut disease (Microbotryum violaceum) and Silene species in the eastern United States. American Journal of Botany 90: 1522-1531. PDF

Hood, M. E. and Antonovics, J. 2003. Plant species descriptions show signs of disease. Proceedings of the Royal Society London Series B (Suppl.) 270: S156-S158. PDF (news bits in Nature and Science)

Hood, M. E. 2003. Dynamics of multiple infection and within-host competition by the anther-smut pathogen. American Naturalist 162: 122-133. PDF

Hood, M. E., Antonovics, J., and Heishman, H. 2003. Karyotypic similarity identifies multiple host-shifts of a pathogenic fungus in natural populations. Infection, Genetics, and Evolution 2: 167-172. PDF

Hood, M. E. 2002. Dimorphic mating-type chromosomes in the fungus Microbotryum violaceum. Genetics 160: 457-461. PDF

Antonovics, J., Hood, M. E., Partain, J. 2002. The ecology and genetics of a host-shift: Microbotryum as a model system. American Naturalist 160: S40-S53. PDF

Hood, M. E., Rocha, 0. J., and Antonovics, J. 2001. Differences in teliospore germination patterns of Microbotryum violaceum on European and North American Silene species. Mycological Research 105: 532-536. PDF

Hood, M. E. and Antonovics, J. 2000. Intratetrad mating, heterozygosity, and the maintenance of deleterious alleles in Microbotryum violaceum (=Ustilago violacea). Heredity 85: 231-241. PDF

Hood, M. E. and Antonovics, J. 1998. Two-celled promycelia and mating-type segregation in Ustilago violacea (=Microbotryum violaceum). International Journal of Plant Sciences 159: 199-205. PDF

Antonovics, J., O'Keefe, K., and Hood, M. E. 1998. Theoretical population genetics of mating- type linked haplo-lethal alleles. International Journal of plant Science 159: 192-198. PDF

Hood, M. E., Condon, J. M., Timko, M. P., and Riopel, J. L. 1998. Primary haustorial development of Striga asiatica on host and nonhost species. Phytopathology 88: 70-75. (cover article) PDF

Hood, M. E. and Shew, H. D. 1997. Reassessment of the role of saprophytic activity in the ecology of Thielaviopsis basicola. Phytopathology 87: 1214-1219. PDF

Hood, M. E. and Shew, H. D. 1997. The influcence of nurtients on development, resting hyphae and aleuriospore induction of Thielaviopsis basicola. Mycologia 89: 793-800. PDF

Hood, M. E. and Shew, H. D. 1997. Initial cellular interactions between Thielaviopsis basicola and tobacco root hairs. Phytopathology 87: 228-235. (cover article) PDF

Hood, M. E. and Shew, H. D. 1996. Pathogenesis of Thielaviopsis basicola on a susceptible and a resistant cultivar of burley tobacco. Phytopathology 86: 38-44. PDF

Hood, M. E. and Shew, H. D. 1996. Applications of KOH-aniline blue fluorescence in the study of plant-fungal interactions. Phytopathology 86: 704-708. PDF

(Link to M. E. Hood homepage - Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics, Amherst College)