Publications

Looney, B.P.*, S. Sierra-Patev*, B. Min*, M. Naranjo-Ortiz*, Z. Konkel, J.C. Slot, Y. Sakamoto, J.L. Steenwyk, A. Rokas et al. 2022. A Global Phylogenomic Analysis of the Shiitake Genus Lentinula. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120: e2214076120.

Looney, B.P., C. Manz, P.B. Matheny, S. Adamčík. 2022. Systematic revision of the Roseinae clade of Russula with a focus on eastern North America taxa. Mycologia 114: 270-302.

Looney, B.P., S. Miyauchi, E. Morin, P.E. Courty, N. Chicoki, L. Fauchery, A. Kohler, E. Lindquist, A. Lipzen, K. LaButti, A. Clum, A. Kuo, K.W. Barry, D. Jacobson, I.V. Grigoriev, L. Nagy, P.B. Matheny, J. Labbé, F. Martin. 2021. Evolutionary transition to the ectomycorrhizal habit in the genomes of a hyperdiverse lineage of mushroom-forming fungi. New Phytologist 233: 2294-2309.

Looney, B.P., B. Buyck, N. Menolli Jr., E. Randrianjohany, D. Hibbett. 2021. Lentinula madagasikarensis sp. nov., a relative of shiitake mushrooms from Madagascar. Fungal Systematics and Evolution 8: 1-8.

Wisitrassameewong, K., M.S. Park, H. Lee, A. Ghosh, K. Das, B. Buyck, B. Looney, M. Caboň, S. Adamčik, C. Kim, C.S. Kim, Y. Lim. 2020. Overview of Russula subsection Amoeninae and reexamination of three species from South Korea. MycoKeys 75: 1-29.

Cheek, M., E. Nic Lughadha, P. Kirk, H. Lindon, J. Carretero, B. Looney, B. Douglas, D. Haelewaters, E. Gaya, T. Llewellyn, M. Ainsworth, Y. Gafforov, K. Hyde, P. Crous, M. Hughes, B. Walker, R. Campostrini Forzza, K.M. Wong, T. Niskanen. 2020. New discoveries: Plants and Fungi described in 2019. Plants, People, Planet 2(5): 371-388.

Looney, B.P., S. Adamćik, P.B. Matheny. 2020. Coalescent-based delimitation and species-tree estimations reveal Appalachian origin and Neogene diversification in Russula subsection Roseinae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 147: 106787.

Adamčik, S., B.P. Looney, M. Cabon, S. Jančovičová, K. Adamčikova, P.G. Avis, M. Barajas, R.P. Bhatt, A. Corrales, K. Das, F. Hampe, A. Ghosh, G. Gates, V. Kälviäinen, A.N. Khalid, M. Kiran, R. De Lange, H. Lee, Y.W. Lim, A. Kong, C. Manz, C. Ovrebo, M. Saba, T. Taipale, A. Verbeken, K. Wisitrassameewong, B. Buyck. 2019. A quest for a globally comprehensive Russula language. Fungal Diversity 99(1): 369-449.

Looney, B.P., P. Meidl, M.J. Piatek, O. Miettinen, F. Martin, P.B. Matheny, J.L. Labbé. 2018. Russulaceae: a new genomic dataset to study ecosystem function and evolutionary diversification of ectomycorrhizal fungi with their tree associates. New Phytologist 218(1): 54-65.

Jančovičová, S., S. Adamčík, B.P. Looney, M. Caboň, M. Čaplovičová, M. Kopáni, S.R. Pennycook, K. Adamčíková. 2017. Delimitation of European Crepidotus stenocystis as different from the North American species C. brunnescens (Inocybaceae, Agaricales). Phytotaxa 328(2): 127-139.

Caboň, M., U. Eberhardt, B.P. Looney, F. Hampe, M. Kolařík, S. Jančovičová, A. Verbeken, S. Adamčík. 2017. New insights in Russula subsect. Rubrinae: phylogeny and the quest for synapomorphic characters. Mycological Progress 16(9): 877-892.

Adamčík, S., S. Jančovičová, B.P. Looney, K. Adamčíková, G.W. Griffith, T. Læssøe, P.-A. Moreau, A. Vizzini, P.B. Matheny. 2017. Hodophilus (Clavariaceae, Agaricales) species with dark dots on the stipe: more than one species in Europe. Mycological Progress 16(8): 811-821.

Adamčík, S., S. Jančovičová, B.P. Looney, K. Adamčíková, J.M. Birkebak, P.A., Vizzini A., and P.B. Matheny. 2017. Circumscription of species in the Hodophilus foetens complex (Clavariaceae, Agaricales) in Europe. Mycological Progress 16(1): 47-62.

Buyck, B, I. Olariaga, B. Looney, J. Justice and V. Hofstetter. 2016. Wisconsin chanterelles revisited and first indications for very wide distributions of Cantharellus species in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. Cryprogamie, Mycologie 37(3): 345-66.

Wisitrassameewong, K., B.P. Looney, H.T. Le, E. De Crop, K. Das, K. Van de Putte, U. Eberhardt, G. Jiayu, D. Stubbe, K.D. Hyde, A. Verbeken and J. Nuytinck. 2016. Lactarius subgenus Russularia (Basidiomycota, Russulales): novel Asian species, worldwide phylogeny and evolutionary relationships. Fungal Biology 120(12): 1554-81.

Adamčík, S., B.P. Looney, J.M. Birkebak, S. Jančovičová, K. Adamčíková, K. Marholdd and P.B. Matheny. 2016. Circumscription of species of Hodophilus (Clavariaceae, Agaricales) in North America with naphthalene odours. Botany 94(10): 941-56.

Adamčík, S., J.M. Birkebak, B.P. Looney and P.B. Matheny. 2016. Multilocus phylogenetic reconstruction of the Clavariaceae (Agaricales) reveals polyphyly of the agaricoid members. Mycologia. Mycologia 108(5) 860-8.

Looney, B.P., M. Ryberg, F. Hampe, M. Sánchez-García and P.B. Matheny. 2016. Into and out of the tropics: global diversification in a hyperdiverse clade of ectomycorrhizal fungi. Molecular Ecology 25: 630-47.

Looney, B.P. 2015. Molecular annotation of type specimens of Russula species described by W.A. Murrill from the southeast United States. Mycotaxon 129(2): 255-68.

Looney, B.P., R.W. Henry and R.H. Hughes. 2014. FRUITBODY WORLDS, Plastination of Mushrooms. FUNGI magazine. Popular article

Looney, B.P., J.M. Birkebak and P.B. Matheny. 2013. A molecular phylogeny of the genus Auricularia with an emphasis on species from the southeastern United States. North American Fungi 8(6): 1-25.

Creech, C., T. Elliot, B. Looney and S. Zelski. 2012. Third Year of the Fungal Biodiversity Program in Thailand. Inoculum 63(5): 6-8. Popular article