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A fungus among us: broad patterns of endophyte distribution in the grassesJennifer A Rudgers
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
Ecology 90:1531-9. 2009..Results are consistent with the conclusion that the evolutionary transition to exclusively vertical transmission can alter patterns of symbiont frequency in nature...- There are many ways to be a mutualist: endophytic fungus reduces plant survival but increases population growthJennifer A Rudgers
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
Ecology 93:565-74. 2012.... 
An invasive plant-fungal mutualism reduces arthropod diversityJennifer A Rudgers
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Ecol Lett 11:831-40. 2008..Our work demonstrates that a keystone mutualism can significantly reduce arthropod biodiversity at a broad community scale...- Forest succession suppressed by an introduced plant-fungal symbiosisJennifer A Rudgers
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
Ecology 88:18-25. 2007..Despite its negligible contribution to community biomass, a microbial symbiont suppressed tree establishment, posing an important constraint on the natural transition from grasslands to forests... - Geographic variation in a facultative mutualism: consequences for local arthropod composition and diversityJennifer A Rudgers
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
Oecologia 163:985-96. 2010..These results demonstrate that a facultative ant-plant mutualism can alter the composition of arthropod assemblages on plants and that these community-level consequences vary across the landscape... - Searching for evidence against the mutualistic nature of hereditary symbioses: a comment on FaethJennifer A Rudgers
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
Am Nat 176:99-103. 2010.... - Fungal endophytes of native grasses decrease insect herbivore preference and performanceKerri M Crawford
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Oecologia 164:431-44. 2010..Our results demonstrate that the mechanisms by which native symbionts deter herbivores are at least as potent as those in model agricultural systems, despite the absence of artificial selection... - Symbiosis lost: imperfect vertical transmission of fungal endophytes in grassesMichelle E Afkhami
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
Am Nat 172:405-16. 2008..Populations with lower endophyte frequencies had higher rates of loss. Our results indicate new directions for understanding cooperation and conflict in symbioses and suggest mechanisms for host sanctions against costly symbionts... 
Constraints on plant signals and rewards to multiple mutualists?Kenneth D Whitney
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
Plant Signal Behav 4:801-4. 2009..These patterns may reflect synergies in selection by pollinators and seed dispersers, genetically-based or resource-based constraints on investment in reproductive tissues, and/or an underlying trade-off in structure size versus number...- Do the costs and benefits of fungal endophyte symbiosis vary with light availability?Andrew J Davitt
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA
New Phytol 188:824-34. 2010.... - Endophyte-mediated resistance to herbivores depends on herbivore identity in the wild grass Festuca subverticillataMichelle E Afkhami
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Environ Entomol 38:1086-95. 2009.... - Fungal symbionts as manipulators of plant reproductive biologyAlexander M Gorischek
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005
Am Nat 181:562-70. 2013..Given the ubiquity of endophytes in plants, reproductive manipulators of hermaphrodites may be widespread in nature... - Covariation of soil bacterial composition with plant rarityValérie Huguet
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 76:7665-7. 2010..We observed that locally rare versus common plants are associated with divergent bacterial communities... - Grass-herbivore interactions altered by strains of a native endophyteTammy Tintjer
Department of Science and Mathematics, St Mary of the Woods College, St Mary of the Woods, IN 47876, USA
New Phytol 170:513-21. 2006..Results suggest that intraspecific genetic variation in endophytes, like plant genetic variation, can have important 'bottom-up' effects on herbivores in native systems... - Herbivores cause a rapid increase in hereditary symbiosis and alter plant community compositionKeith Clay
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:12465-70. 2005..These results demonstrate that herbivores can drive plant-microbe dynamics and, in doing so, modify plant community structure directly and indirectly... - Connecting plant-microbial interactions above and belowground: a fungal endophyte affects decompositionAlisha Lemons
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA
Oecologia 145:595-604. 2005..Our work is among the first to demonstrate an effect of plant-endophyte mutualisms on ecosystem processes under field conditions... - Mutualistic fungus promotes plant invasion into diverse communitiesJennifer A Rudgers
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA
Oecologia 144:463-71. 2005..Fungal symbionts, like other key species, are often overlooked in studies of plant diversity, yet their presence may explain variation among studies in the effect of diversity on resistance to invasion... - A selection mosaic in the facultative mutualism between ants and wild cottonJennifer A Rudgers
Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Proc Biol Sci 271:2481-8. 2004..This work is some of the first to manipulate interactions experimentally across multiple sites and thereby document that geographically variable selection, mediated by a mutualist, can shape the evolution of plant traits... - Plant-fungus mutualism affects spider composition in successional fieldsLaura K Finkes
Ecol Lett 9:347-56. 2006..Results demonstrate that the community impacts of non-native plants can depend on plants' mutualistic associates, such as fungal endophytes... - Behavioral mechanisms underlie an ant-plant mutualismJennifer A Rudgers
Center for Population Biology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Oecologia 135:51-9. 2003..This study contributes to a small body of evidence from terrestrial systems demonstrating that the trait-mediated effects of predators can cascade to the host plants of prey...