Stephen Mondo


Stephen was a Ph.D. student in the Field of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology. He graduated in the Summer 2013. He worked on ecology and evolution of bacterial endosymbionts of fungi. To learn more about Stephen's work, read:

Carter, M.E., S.C.D. Carpenter, Z.E. Dubrow, M.R. Sabol*, F.C. Rinaldi, O.A. Lastovetsky, S.J. Mondo, T.E. Pawlowska, and A.J. Bogdanove. 2020. A TAL effector-like protein of an endofungal bacterium increases the stress tolerance and alters the transcriptome of the host. PNAS https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2003857117. Abstract

Espino-Vázquez, A.N., J.R. Bermúdez-Barrientos, J.F. Cabrera-Rangel, G. Córdova-López, F. Cardoso-Martínez, A. Martínez-Vázquez, D.A. Camarena-Pozos, S.J. Mondo, T.E. Pawlowska, C. Abreu-Goodger, L.P. Partida-Martínez. 2020. Narnaviruses: novel players in fungal–bacterial symbioses. The ISME Journal https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-0638-y. Abstract

Lastovetsky O.A., E. Ahn*, S.J. Mondo, K.H. Toomer*, A. Zhang*, L.M. Johnson & T.E. Pawlowska. 2018. Distribution and population structure of endobacteria in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi at North Atlantic dunes. The ISME Journal 10.1038/s41467-017-02052-8. Abstract

Pawlowska T.E., M.L. Gaspar, O.A. Lastovetsky, S.J. Mondo, I. Real-Ramirez, E. Shakya*, P. Bonfante. 2018. Biology of fungi and their bacterial endosymbionts. Annual Review of Phytopathology 56:289-309, 10.1146/annurev-phyto-080417-045914. Abstract

Mondo, S.J., O.A. Lastovetsky, M.L. Gaspar, N.H. Schwardt, C.C. Barber, R. Riley, H. Sun, I.V. Grigoriev, and T.E. Pawlowska. 2017. Bacterial endosymbionts influence host sexuality and reveal reproductive genes of early divergent fungi. Nature Communications 8: 1843, 10.1038/s41467-017-02052-8. Abstract

Mondo, S. J., A. Salvioli, P. Bonfante, J.B. Morton and T. E. Pawlowska. 2016. Nondegenerative evolution in ancient heritable bacterial endosymbionts of fungi. Molecular Biology and Evolution 33(9): 2216–2231, 10.1093/molbev/msw086. Abstract

Desirò, A., A. Salvioli, E.L. Ngonkeu, S.J. Mondo, S. Epis, A. Faccio, A. Kaech, T.E. Pawlowska and P. Bonfante.  2013.  Detection of a novel intracellular microbiome hosted in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.  ISME Journal doi:10.1038/ismej.2013.151. Abstract

Mondo, S.J., K.H. Toomer, J.B. Morton, Y. Lekberg and T.E. Pawlowska.  2012. Evolutionary stability in a 400-million-year-old heritable facultative mutualism.  Evolution 66: 2564-2576. Abstract

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