Molecular Genetics

- Rahnama M., Novikova O., Starnes J., Chen L., Zhang S., *Farman M.L. 2020. Transposon-mediated telomere destabilization: a driver of genome evolution in the blast fungus. Nucleic Acids Research 48(13):7197–7217.

- *Rahnama, M., Maclean, P., Fleetwood, D. J., Johnson, R. D. 2023. Comparative Transcriptomics Profiling of Perennial Ryegrass Infected with Wild Type or a ΔvelA Epichloë festucae Mutant Reveals Host Processes Underlying Mutualistic versus Antagonistic Interactions. Journal of Fungi 9(2), 190.

- Rahnama M., Wang B., Dostart J., Novikova O., Yackzan D., Yackzan A., Bruss H., Baker M., Jacob H., Zhang X., Lamb A., Stewart A., Heist M., Hoover J., Calie P., Chen L., Liu J., *Farman M.L. 2021. Telomere Roles in Fungal Genome Evolution and Adaptation. Frontiers in Genetics 12: 676751.

- *Rahnama M., Fleetwood D.J., *Johnson R.D. 2021. Histological Methods to Detect Early-stage Plant Defense Responses during Artificial Inoculation of Lolium perenne with Epichloë festucae. Bio-Protocol 11(9): e4013.

- *Rahnama M., Maclean P., Fleetwood D.J., *Johnson R.D. 2020. VelA and LaeA are key regulators of the Epichloë festucae transcriptomic response during symbiosis with perennial ryegrass. Microorganisms 8(1): 33.

- Rahnama M., Maclean P., *Fleetwood D.J., *Johnson R.D. 2019. Comparative transcriptomics analysis of compatible wild type and incompatible ΔlaeA mutant strains of Epichloë festucae in association with perennial ryegrass. Data in Brief 24:103843.

- Rahnama M., Maclean P., *Fleetwood D.J., *Johnson R.D. 2019. The LaeA orthologue in Epichloë festucae is required for symbiotic interaction with Lolium perenne. Fungal Genetics and Biology 129: 74-85.

- Rahnama M., *Fields K.A. 2018. Transformation of chlamydia: Current approaches and impact on our understanding of chlamydial infection biology. Microbes and Infection S1286-4579.

- Wolf K., Rahnama M., *Fields K.A. 2019. Genetic Manipulation of Chlamydia trachomatis: Chromosomal Deletions. In: Brown A. (eds) Chlamydia trachomatis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2042. Humana, NY.

- Rahnama M., Johnson R.D., Voisey C.R., Simpson W.R., *Fleetwood D.J. 2018. The global regulatory protein VelA is a key regulator in the symbiosis between the endophytic fungus Epichloë festucae and Lolium perenne. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 31(6):591-604.

- Rahnama M., Forester N., Ariyawansa K.G.S.U., Voisey C.R., Johnson L.J., Johnson R.D., *Fleetwood D.J. 2017. Efficient targeted mutagenesis in Epichloë festucae using a split marker system. Journal of Microbiological Methods 134: 62–65.

- Afrasiabi A., Alinejad-Rokny H., Khosh A., Rahnama M., Lovell N., Xu Z., *Ebrahimi D. 2022. The low abundance of CpG in the SARS-CoV-2 genome is not an evolutionarily signature of ZAP. Scientific Reports 12: 2420.

- Sadeghpour S., Khodaee S., Rahnama M., Rahimi H., *Ebrahimi D. 2021. Human APOBEC3 Variations and Viral Infection. Viruses 13(7): 1366.

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