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Meredith D. M. Jones
Researcher at Natural History Museum
Publications - 6
Citations - 873
Meredith D. M. Jones is an academic researcher from Natural History Museum. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rozella & Environmental DNA. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 6 publications receiving 796 citations. Previous affiliations of Meredith D. M. Jones include University of Exeter & American Museum of Natural History.
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Discovery of novel intermediate forms redefines the fungal tree of life
Meredith D. M. Jones,Meredith D. M. Jones,Irene Forn,Catarina Gadelha,Martin J. Egan,Martin J. Egan,David Bass,Ramon Massana,Thomas A. Richards,Thomas A. Richards +9 more
TL;DR: This work investigates the ecology and cell biology of a previously undescribed and highly diverse form of eukaryotic life that branches with the Fungi, using environmental DNA analyses combined with fluorescent detection via DNA probes and names this highly diverse clade the cryptomycota in anticipation of formal classification.
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Horizontal gene transfer facilitated the evolution of plant parasitic mechanisms in the oomycetes
Thomas A. Richards,Thomas A. Richards,Darren M. Soanes,Meredith D. M. Jones,Meredith D. M. Jones,Olga Vasieva,Guy Leonard,Guy Leonard,Konrad Paszkiewicz,Peter G. Foster,Neil Hall,Nicholas J. Talbot +11 more
TL;DR: Using whole-genome, gene-by-gene phylogenetic analysis, an extensive pattern of cross-kingdom HGT between fungi and oomycetes is demonstrated, consistent with the hypothesis that some oomyCetes became successful plant parasites by multiple acquisitions of genes from fungi.
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Molecular diversity and distribution of marine fungi across 130 European environmental samples
Thomas A. Richards,Thomas A. Richards,Guy Leonard,Frédéric Mahé,Javier del Campo,Javier del Campo,Sarah Romac,Meredith D. M. Jones,Finlay Maguire,Finlay Maguire,Micah Dunthorn,Colomban de Vargas,Ramon Massana,Aurélie Chambouvet +13 more
TL;DR: A dual approach involving high-throughput diversity tag sequencing from both DNA and RNA templates and fluorescent cell counts is used to evaluate the diversity and relative abundance of fungi across marine samples taken from six European near-shore sites, demonstrating the phylogenetic position and environmental distribution of 71 lineages.
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Validation and justification of the phylum name Cryptomycota phyl. nov.
Meredith D. M. Jones,Meredith D. M. Jones,Thomas A. Richards,Thomas A. Richards,David L. Hawksworth,David L. Hawksworth,David Bass +6 more
TL;DR: The recently proposed new phylum name Cryptomycota phyl.
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Group-specific environmental sequencing reveals high levels of ecological heterogeneity across the microsporidian radiation.
TL;DR: This work has combined high throughput sequencing, broad environmental sampling and microsporidian‐specific primers to broaden the understanding of the evolutionary diversity of the Microsporidia.