Selected Publications

Meslé MM, Mueller RC, Peach J, Eilers B, Tripet BP, Bothner B, Copié V, Peyton BM. Isolation, identification, and characterization of lignocellulose-degrading Geobacillus thermoleovorans from Yellowstone National Park. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, in press

Mueller RC, Peach JT, Skorupa DJ, Copié V, Bothner B, Peyton BM. 2021. An emerging view of the diversity, ecology and function of Archaea in alkaline hydrothermal environments. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 97:fiaa246.

Mueller RC, Scudder CM, Whitham TG and Gehring CA. 2019. Legacy effects of tree mortality mediated by ectomycorrhizal fungal communities. New Phytologist 224:155-165.

Abdelrhman MA, Ha P, Peyton B, Mueller RC, Meagher M, Beyenal H. 2019. In situ enrichment of microbial communities on polarized electrodes deployed in alkaline hot springs. Journal of Power Resources, in press.

Mueller RC, Rodrigues JLM, Nusslein K, Bohannan BJM. 2016. Land use change in the Amazon rainforest favors generalist fungi. Functional Ecology 30:1845-1853.

Mueller RC, Gallegos-Graves LV, Kuske CR. 2016. A new fungal large subunit ribosomal RNA primer for high throughput sequencing surveys. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 92:2.

Mueller RC, Belnap J, Kuske CR. 2015. Soil bacterial and fungal community responses to nitrogen addition across soil depths and microhabitat in an arid shrubland. Frontiers in Microbiology 6:821.

Mueller RC, Gallegos-Graves LV, Zak DR, Kuske CR. 2015. Assembly of active bacterial and fungal communities along a natural environmental gradient. Microbial Ecology 71:57-67.

Mueller RCand Bohannan BJM. 2015. Shifts in the phylogenetic structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in response to experimental nitrogen and CO₂additions. Oecologia 179:175-185.

Hesse CN, Mueller RC, Vuyisich M, Gallegos-Graves LV, Gleasner CD, Zak DR, Kuske CR. 2015. Forest floor community metatranscriptomes identify fungal and bacterial responses to N deposition in two maple forests. Frontiers in Microbiology 6.

Mueller RC, Rodrigues JLM, Paula FS, Mirza B, Pellizari VH, Nüsslein K and Bohannan BJM. 2014. Links between plant and fungal communities across a deforestation chronosequence in the Amazon rainforest. ISME Journal 8:1548-1550.

Mueller RCand Kembel SW. 2014. Plant traits and taxonomy drive host associations in tropical phyllosphere fungal communities (Invited Submission). Botany 92:303-311.

Rodrigues JLM, Pellizari V, Mueller R, Baek K, Ederson JC, Paula FS, Mirza B, Hamauoi G, Tsai SM, Feigl B, Tiedje JM, Bohannan BJMB, Nüsslein K. 2013. Conversion of the Amazon Rainforest to agriculture results in biotic homogenization of soil bacterial communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110:988-993.

Mueller RC, Gehring CA. 2006. Interactions between an above-ground parasite and below-ground ectomycorrhizal fungal communities on pinyon pine. Journal of Ecology 94:276-284.

Mueller RC, Scudder CM, Porter ME, Trotter RT, Gehring CA, Whitham TG. 2005. Differential tree mortality in response to severe drought: evidence for long-term vegetation shifts. Journal of Ecology 93:1085-1093.