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2016
Rúa, M.A., Antoninka, A., Antunes, P.M., Chaudhary, V.B., Gehring, C., Lamit, L.J., Piculell, B.J., Bever, J.D., Zabinski, C., Meadow, J.F., Lajeunesse, M.J., Milligan, B.G., Karst, J., and Hoeksema, J.D. 2016. Home-field advantage? evidence of local adaptation among plants, soil, and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi through meta-analysis. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16, 1-15. doi: 10.1186/s12862-016-0698-9.
Data on Dryad: http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.723m1 (2016).
Chaudhary, V.B., M.A. Rúa, A. Antoninka, J.D. Bever, J. Cannon, A. Craig, J. Duchicela, A. Frame, M. Gardes, C. Gehring, M. Ha*, M. Hart, J. Hopkins, B. Ji, N. C. Johnson, W. Kaonongbua, Ju. Karst, R. Koide, L. Lamit, J. Meadow, B. Milligan, J. Moore, T. Pendergast, B. Piculell, B. Ramsby, S. Simard, S. Shrestha, J. Umbanhowar, W. Viechtbauer, L. Walters, G. Wilson, P. Zee, and J.D. Hoeksema. 2016. “MycoDB, a global database of plant response to mycorrhizal fungi,” Scientific Data. 3:160028.
Data on Dryad: http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.723m1 (2016).
Rúa, M.A., Wilson, E.C., Steele, S.*, Munters, A.R.*, Hoeksema, J.D., Frank, A.C. 2016. Ectomycorrhizal fungi structure the bacterial needle endophyte microbiota in Pinus radiata: implications for biotic selection of microbial communities. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7:399. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00399.
2015
Rúa, M.A., Moore, B.*, Hergott, N., Van, L.*, Jackson, C.R., Hoeksema, J.D. 2015. Ectomycorrhizal fungal communities and enzymatic activities vary across an ecotone between a forest and field. Journal of Fungi. 1(2):185-210.
Nyabadza, F. Bekele, B.T., Rúa, M.A., Malonza, D., Chiduku, N., Kgosimore, M., 2015. The implications of HIV treatment on the HIV-malaria coinfection dynamics: a modeling perspective. BioMed Research International. Article ID 659651: doi:10.1155/2015/659651.
Whitaker, B.*, Rúa, M.A., Mitchell, C.E. 2015. Viral pathogen production in a wild grass host driven by host growth and soil nitrogen. New Phytologist. 207(3):760-768.
Yamamichi, M., Meunier, C.L., Peace, A., Prater, C., Rúa, M.A. 2015. Rapid evolution of a consumer stoichiometric trait destabilizes consumer-producer dynamics. Oikos. 124:960-969.
Rúa, M.A. & Umbanhowar, J. 2015. The effect of mutualists on pathogen-host dynamics. Theoretical Ecology. 8(1):133-148.
2014
Cronin, J.P., Rúa, M.A., Mitchell, C.E. 2014. Why is living fast dangerous? Disentangling the roles of resistance and tolerance of disease American Naturalist.184:172-187.
Rúa, M.A., McCulley, R.L., Mitchell, C.E. 2014. Climate drivers, host identity, and fungal endophyte infection determine virus prevalence in a grassland ecosystem. Journal of Ecology.102:690-699.
Hoeksema J & Rúa M: F1000Prime Recommendation of [Zimmerman N et al., Front Ecol Environ 2014, 12(4):224-31]. In F1000Prime, 19 May 2014; DOI: 10.3410/f.718384400.793495106. F1000Prime.com/718384400#eval79349510
2013
Rúa, M.A., McCulley, R.L., Mitchell, C.E. 2013. Fungal endophyte infection and host genetic background jointly modulate host response to an aphid-transmitted viral pathogen. Journal of Ecology. 101:1007-1018.
Rúa, MA., Umbanhowar, J., Hu, S., Burkey, K., Mitchell, CE. 2013. “Elevated CO2 spurs reciprocal positive effects between a plant virus and an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus. New Phytologist. 199:541-549.
2011
Rúa M.A, Pollina E.C., Power A.G., Mitchell C.E. 2011. The role of viruses in biological invasions: friend or foe? Current Opinion in Virology. 1:68-72.
Rúa, M.A. and C.E. Mitchell, 2011. Pathogens, Plant. For The Encyclopedia of Biological Invasions, edited by Daniel Simberloff and Marcel Rejmánek. The University of California Press. 520-525.
2010
Rudgers, J.A., Savage, A.M., and Rúa, M.A. 2010. Geographic variation in a facultative mutualism alters local arthropod diversity. Oecologia. 163:985-96.
2009
Rudgers, J.A., Afkhami, M.E., Rúa, M.A., Davitt, A.J., Hammer, S., and Huguet, V. 2009. Why ecologists should consider endophytes: broad patterns of endophyte distribution in the grasses. Ecology. 90:1531-1539.
2008
Rúa, M.A., Nijjer, S., Johnson, A., Rogers, W.E., and E. Siemann. 2008. Experimental approaches for testing allelopathy: investigating the allelopathic potential of the invader sapium sebiferum. Allelopathy Journal. 22:1-14.
Rúa Microbial Community Ecology Lab 