James Skelton @jskelton_mudbug

Community Ecologist -- Data masochist. poetsworm.com Gainesville, FL Joined November 2016

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James Skelton @jskelton_mudbug

a year ago

eDNA shows that dammed coastal waterways are less diverse, more homogenous, and dominated by invasive species sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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James Skelton @jskelton_mudbug

a year ago

Dams affect much more than salmon. MS student Mindy Spence analyzed environmental DNA to show their full impact on fish diversity in the Chesapeake. @williamandmary @wm_biology. Read her paper new @STOTEN_journal. doi.org/10.1016/j.scit…

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James Skelton @jskelton_mudbug

a year ago

Aquatic fungi respond to water quality - Honors thesis from my undergrad Lauren French is now published. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

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James Skelton @jskelton_mudbug

2 years ago

#worldwaterday2024 Ecology detectives: Student researchers use discarded DNA to investigate aquatic mysteries news.wm.edu/2024/03/21/eco…

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James Skelton @jskelton_mudbug

3 years ago

Now face west... Tree hole direction affects breeding success in endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers. See what started as a beer-fueled conversation among three Virginia Tech EEB grad students many years ago: @MAJusino @LukasLandler nature.com/articles/s4159…

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James Skelton @jskelton_mudbug

3 years ago

When does native symbiont diversity suffer from the invasion of non-native host species? See our new conceptual paper in Ecology: @wm_biology esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

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James Skelton @jskelton_mudbug

4 years ago

What happens to native symbionts when non-native hosts invade? Here is a link to our story about the "Dilution Effect" in a cleaning symbiosis onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rr…

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Marcos Vinicius Caiafa Sepulveda @CaiafaMarcos

4 years ago

I am happy to share the third chapter from my Ph.D. with @TruffleSmithLAB. Here we explored the ecology and evolution of non-mycorrhizal boletes! authors.elsevier.com/a/1eRGp6ExPyh0…

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James Skelton @jskelton_mudbug

4 years ago

Congrats to @CaiafaMarcos, @MAJusino and @TruffleSmithLAB for authoring the cover article of Current Biology with their story about South American birds that eat and disperse truffles! cell.com/current-biolog…

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James Skelton @jskelton_mudbug

4 years ago

New paper on evolution of fungal symbionts of bark beetles. Entomocorticium is derived from wood-degrading Peniophora. Plus several new species descriptions @MDPIOpenAccess @shroominn @FungusProf @forestmycology mdpi.com/1391718

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Jiri Hulcr @JiriHulcr

5 years ago

Ambrosia beetles & fungi are known for all kinds of damage, but never before anyone accused them of impact on wood decay... until now. On the landscape scale! rdcu.be/cc0U0 Left: log with invasive ambrosia fungus Flavodon, right: natural colonization by native fungi.

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James Skelton @jskelton_mudbug

5 years ago

Check out our new paper showing how a crayfish cleaning symbiosis affects freshwater diversity and ecosystem processes. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

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James Skelton @jskelton_mudbug

5 years ago

Which would you rather drink? Tank on left is water from a murky polluted reservior after 1 day with a few #freshwater #sponges (Radiospongilla cerebellata), tank on right is same water with no sponges.

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Michelle Jusino @MAJusino

5 years ago

These non-native #beetles farm a mushroom-producing fungus...and it competes with native #fungi! @jskelton_mudbug @JiriHulcr @TruffleSmithLAB doi.org/10.1016/j.fune…

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James Skelton @jskelton_mudbug

5 years ago

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Michelle Jusino @MAJusino

5 years ago

Communities of wood decay fungi are essential to global carbon fluxes and ecosystem function. Tune in to #MSAfungi20 on Weds: “Fungal Community Structure, Dynamics and Function in Decaying Wood” to see cutting-edge research in decay! msafungi.org/fungal-communi… @FungusProf @MSAFungi

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James Skelton @jskelton_mudbug

5 years ago

Here is some great news: gainesville.com/news/20200527/…

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Jiri Hulcr @JiriHulcr

5 years ago

POSTDOC POSITION at the University of Florida: we are looking for a fungal biologist with experience and publications in fungal molecular biology, fungal genetics and CRISPR. Nemat Keyhani's lab, co-supervised by me. Email inquiries directly to [email protected]