Benjamin W Held
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Schilling J, Kaffenberger J, Held B, Ortiz R, Blanchette R
Front Microbiol
. 2020 Jun;
11:1288.
PMID: 32595628
Wood-decomposing fungi use distinct strategies to deconstruct wood that can significantly vary carbon release rates and fates. White and brown rot-type fungi attack lignin as a prerequisite to access carbohydrates...
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Held B, Salomon C, Blanchette R
PLoS One
. 2020 Jun;
15(6):e0234208.
PMID: 32497073
Mines and caves are unusual ecosystems containing unique fungi and are greatly understudied compared to other environments. The Soudan Mine in Tower, MN, an iron ore mine that closed in...
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Rusman Y, Wilson M, Williams J, Held B, Blanchette R, Anderson B, et al.
J Nat Prod
. 2020 Jan;
83(2):344-353.
PMID: 31986046
White-nose syndrome (WNS) is a devastating disease of hibernating bats caused by the fungus . We obtained 383 fungal and bacterial isolates from the Soudan Iron Mine, an important bat...
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Abdel-Azeem A, Held B, Richards J, Davis S, Blanchette R
PLoS One
. 2019 Mar;
14(3):e0213753.
PMID: 30917134
Abydos is a large, complex archaeological site located approximately 500 km south of Cairo in Upper Egypt. The site has served as a cemetery for thousands of years and is...
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Wu B, Gaskell J, Held B, Toapanta C, Vuong T, Ahrendt S, et al.
Appl Environ Microbiol
. 2018 Jun;
84(16).
PMID: 29884757
Wood-decaying fungi tend to have characteristic substrate ranges that partly define their ecological niche. is a brown rot species of Polyporales that is reported on 82 species of softwoods and...
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Loyd A, Held B, Linder E, Smith J, Blanchette R
Fungal Biol
. 2018 Mar;
122(4):254-263.
PMID: 29551199
The laccate (shiny or varnished) Ganoderma contain fungi that are important wood decay fungi of living trees and decomposers of woody debris. They are also an important group of fungi...
17.
Rusman Y, Held B, Blanchette R, He Y, Salomon C
Phytochemistry
. 2018 Jan;
148:1-10.
PMID: 29366851
Recent investigations of filamentous fungi isolated from coastal areas and historic wooden structures in the Ross Sea and Peninsula regions of Antarctica have identified the genus Cadophora as one of...
18.
Wilson M, Held B, Freiborg A, Blanchette R, Salomon C
PLoS One
. 2017 Jun;
12(6):e0178968.
PMID: 28617823
White-nose syndrome (WNS) is a devastating fungal disease that has been causing the mass mortality of hibernating bats in North America since 2006 and is caused by the psychrophilic dermatophyte...
19.
Held B, Blanchette R
Fungal Biol
. 2017 Jan;
121(2):145-157.
PMID: 28089046
Very little is known about fungal diversity in Antarctica as compared to other biomes and how these important organisms function in this unusual ecosystem. Perhaps one of the most unusual...
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Rusman Y, Held B, Blanchette R, Wittlin S, Salomon C
J Nat Prod
. 2015 Jun;
78(6):1456-60.
PMID: 26035018
One new isochromane (pseudoanguillosporin C, 2), seven isochromanones (soudanones A-G, 3-9), and six known analogues including 10 and 11 were isolated from a culture of the fungus Cadophora sp. 10-5-2...