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Daniel L. Lindner

Research Plant Pathologist, USDA Forest Service
Verified email at usda.gov
Cited by 6779

Phylogenetic evaluation of Geomyces and allies reveals no close relatives of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, comb. nov., in bat hibernacula of eastern North …

AM Minnis, DL Lindner - Fungal biology, 2013 - Elsevier
White-nose syndrome (WNS) of bats, caused by the fungus previously known as Geomyces
destructans, has decimated populations of insectivorous bats in eastern North America. …

Fungal functional ecology: bringing a trait‐based approach to plant‐associated fungi

…, R Gazis, D Hibbett, P Kennedy, DL Lindner… - Biological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fungi play many essential roles in ecosystems. They facilitate plant access to nutrients and
water, serve as decay agents that cycle carbon and nutrients through the soil, water and …

Distribution and environmental persistence of the causative agent of white-nose syndrome, Geomyces destructans, in bat hibernacula of the eastern United States

…, RE Russell, M O'Connor, DL Lindner… - Applied and …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
White-nose syndrome (WNS) is an emerging disease of hibernating bats caused by the
recently described fungus Geomyces destructans . First isolated in 2008, the origins of this …

Intragenomic variation in the ITS rDNA region obscures phylogenetic relationships and inflates estimates of operational taxonomic units in genus Laetiporus

DL Lindner, MT Banik - Mycologia, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Regions of rDNA are commonly used to infer phylogenetic relationships among fungal species
and as DNA barcodes for identification. These regions occur in large tandem arrays, and …

[HTML][HTML] Non-biological synthetic spike-in controls and the AMPtk software pipeline improve mycobiome data

JM Palmer, MA Jusino, MT Banik, DL Lindner - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
High-throughput amplicon sequencing (HTAS) of conserved DNA regions is a powerful
technique to characterize microbial communities. Recently, spike-in mock communities have …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular phylogeny, morphology, pigment chemistry and ecology in Hygrophoraceae (Agaricales)

…, A Young, M Binder, AM Minnis, DL Lindner… - Fungal Diversity, 2014 - Springer
Molecular phylogenies using 1–4 gene regions and information on ecology, morphology
and pigment chemistry were used in a partial revision of the agaric family Hygro- phoraceae. …

Context‐dependent conservation responses to emerging wildlife diseases

…, MC Fisher, JR Hoyt, DL Lindner… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging infectious diseases pose an important threat to wildlife. While established
protocols exist for combating outbreaks of human and agricultural pathogens, appropriate …

Bat white-nose syndrome: a real-time TaqMan polymerase chain reaction test targeting the intergenic spacer region of Geomyces destructans

LK Muller, JM Lorch, DL Lindner, M O'Connor… - Mycologia, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The fungus Geomyces destructans is the causative agent of white-nose syndrome (WNS), a
disease that has killed millions of North American hibernating bats. We describe a real-time …

A trait-based understanding of wood decomposition by fungi

…, MA Bradford, DL Lindner… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
As the primary decomposers of organic material in terrestrial ecosystems, fungi are critical
agents of the global carbon cycle. Yet our ability to link fungal community composition to …

An improved method for utilizing high‐throughput amplicon sequencing to determine the diets of insectivorous animals

…, C Gratton, MZ Peery, DL Lindner - Molecular ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
DNA analysis of predator faeces using high‐throughput amplicon sequencing (HTS) enhances
our understanding of predator–prey interactions. However, conclusions drawn from this …