Priscila Chaverri - Publications

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Recent Publications (since 2022)

  1. Chaverri, P., Escudero-Leyva, E., Kooij, P.W., Morales-Lemus, C., Salgado-Salazar, C. 2026. Genomes of the ex-type strains of Elsinoë mangiferae and perseae, the causal agents of scab on mango and avocado. G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics 16: jkag177.
  2. Lackmann, J.A., Bachelot, B., Lindell, C., Prado-Ragan, E., Chaverri, P., Escudero-Leyva, E., Errico, G., Orr, M., Oviedo Brenes, F., Figueroa, J., Aldrich-Wolfe, L. 2026. Field-to-forest fungal spillover is a biotic edge effect of coffee in Costa Rica. Nature Communications 17:9025. Highlighted in Nature Ecology and Evolution: "Coffee spillovers", by Simon Harold (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-026-03177-0).
  3. Alfaro-Vargas, P., Wicki-Emmenegger, D., Mesén-Porras, E., Vargas-Chacón, C., Bravo Bonilla, O., Chaverri, P., Chavarría, M. 2026. Draft genome sequence of the peptaibol producer Trichoderma asperellum TRC-03. Microbiology Resource Announcements 15:e00133-26.
  4. Berkelmann, D., Zuñiga-Umaña, J.M., Chaverri, P., Solano, W., Gatica-Arias, A. 2026. Fungal diversity associated with coffee leaf rust (Hemileia vastatrix) pustules based on ITS1 amplicon sequencing. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 42: 153
  5. Steindorff, A., F. Cai, M. Ding, S. Jiang, L. Atanasova, S. Baker, J. Barbosa-Filho, G. B. Akcapinar, D. Brown, Chaverri, P. Chen, K. Chenthamara, C. Daum, E. Drula, M. Dubey, M. Brandstroem Durling, D. Flatschacher, T. Ebner, T. Emri, R. Gao, R. Georg, B. Henrissat, R. Hermosa, A. Herrera-Estrella, W. Hinterdobler, P. Kainz, M. Karlsson, L. Kredics, C. Kubicek, A. Kuo, K. LaButti, A. Lipzen, M. Lorito, R. Mach, G. Manganiello, M. Tamas, N. Martinez-Reyes, M. Mayrhofer-Reinhartshuber, M. Miskei, M-C. Moisan, S. Mondo, E. Monte, V. Ng, G. Pang, J. Pangilinan, M. Peng, E. Piombo, I. Pocsi, M. Rahimi, S. Reddy, R. Riley, S. Sarrocco, M. Schmal, M. Schmoll, A. Szucs, S. Woo, O. Yarden, S. Zeilinger, C. Zimmermann, E. Shelest, A. Tsang, R. Berka, R. de Vries, I. Grigoriev. 2026. Phenogenomics reveals the ecology and evolution of Trichoderma fungi for sustainable agriculture. Nature Microbiology 11: 815–831.
  6. Cuprewich, S.A., K.M. Barbour, M.E. Afkhami, K.M.T. Lynn, A.L. Romero-Olivares, C. Aguilar-Trigueros, Chaverri, C.P. Egan, V. Norros, K. Peay, R.J. Ramos, R. Stephens, L. Ward, B. Chaudhary. 2026. One hundred unanswered questions on the dispersal ecology of fungi. The ISME Journal 20: wrag018.
  7. Escudero-Leyva, E., Belle, M., DadkhahTehrani, A., Culver, J.N., Araya-Salas, M., Kutza, J.P., Goldson, N., Chavarría, M., Chaverri, P. 2025. Genomic insights reveal community structure and phylogenetic associations of endohyphal bacteria and viruses in fungal endophytes. Environmental Microbiome 20:95.
  8. Chaverri, P., Escudero-Leyva, E., Mora-Rojas, D., Calvo-Obando, A., González, M., Escalante-Campos, E., Mesén-Porras, E., Wicki-Emmenegger, D., Rojas-Gätjens, D., Avey-Arroyo, J., Campos-Hernández, M., Castellón, E., Moreira-Soto, A., Drexler, J. F., & Chavarría, M. 2025. Differential microbial composition and fiber degradation in two sloth species (Bradypus variegatus and Choloepus hoffmanni). Current Microbiology 82: 327
  9. Chaverri, P., Goldson, N., Romberg, M.K., Dadkhahtehrani, A., Castlebury, L.A. 2025. A new species of Entyloma (Entylomatales, Exobasidiomycetes) on the ornamental plant Eryngium planum expands the eryngii species complex. Mycologia 177: 435-444.
  10. Bolívar-González, A., Tapia-Fernández, A., Chaverri, P., Gatica-Arias, A. 2025. Differential gene expression in response to Hemileia vastatrix in chemically mutagenized coffee plants (Coffea arabica var. Catuaí). Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 160: 79
  11. Castillo-González, H., Slot, J.C., Yarwood, S., Chaverri, P. 2025. Exploring biodiversity dynamics and taxonomy of Rubiaceae fungal endophytes in tropical regions. Peer Community Journal 5: e26.
  12. Silva Peixoto, G.H., Fernandes da Silva, R.A., Zacaroni, A.B., Silva, T.F., Chaverri, P., Pinho, D.B., Marques de Mello, S.C. 2025. A Brazilian soil Trichoderma collection reveals a new species, cerradensis sp. nov. Frontiers in Microbiology 16:1279142.
  13. Bhunjun CS, [+144 co-authors], Hyde KD, Crous PW. 2024. What are the 100 most cited fungal genera? Studies in Mycology 108: 1-411. * Chaverri is 55th author and contributed with the chapter on Trichoderma (pp. 22-27)
  14. Zuffa, S., et al. [ Chaverri: 36th co-author out of 106]. 2024. A taxonomically-informed mass spectrometry search tool for microbial metabolomics data. Nature Microbiology 9: 336-345
  15. Castillo-González, H., Bloomberg, J., Alvarado-Picado, E., Yarwood, S., Chaverri, P. 2024. Agricultural practices influence foliar endophytic communities in coffee plants of different varieties. Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment 2024;7:e20476. Article highlighted in CSA News (volume 68, issue 8: pages 4-7), the news journal of Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, and American Society of Agronomy (Joosse, T. 2024. Farming Practices, Fungal Endophytes, and Coffee. CSA News 69(8):4-7).
  16. Hyde, K.D., et al. 2023. Global consortium for the classification of fungi and fungus-like taxa. Mycosphere 14(1): 1960-2012. (Global consortium paper with 100+ mycologists)
  17. Escudero-Leyva E., Quirós-Guerrero, L., Vásquez-Chaves, V., Pereira-Reyes, R., Chaverri, P., Tamayo-Castillo, G. 2023. Differential volatile organic compound expression from the interaction of Daldinia eschscholtzii and Mycena citricolor. ACS Omega 8: 31373-31388. (Article selected for the cover of volume 8, issue 34, of ACS Omega)
  18. Scott, K., Konkel, Z., Gluck-Thaler, E., Valero David, G.E., Farinas, C., Grootmyer, D., Chaverri, P., Slot, J. 2023. Endophyte genomes support greater metabolic gene cluster diversity compared with non-endophytes in Trichoderma. PLoS ONE 18(12): e0289280.
  19. Escudero-Leyva, E., Granados-Montero, M., Orozco-Ortiz, C., Araya-Valverde, E., Alvarado-Picado, E., Chaves-Fallas, J.M., Aldrich-Wolfe, L., Chaverri, P. 2023. The endophytobiome of wild Rubiaceae as a source of antagonistic fungi against the American Leaf Spot of coffee (Mycena citricolor). Journal of Applied Microbiology 134: lxad090 (The Microbiologist, the news magazine for Applied Microbiology International, highlights this research article in: "Endophytes colonize and protect coffee seedlings" by L. Stewart; May 15, 2023)
  20. Rojas-Gätjens, D., Avey-Arroyo, J., Chaverri, P., Rojas-Jimenez, K., Chavarría, M. 2023. Differences in fungal communities in the fur of two- and three-toed sloths revealed by ITS metabarcoding. Microbiology 169: 001309.
  21. Chaverri, P., Romberg, M., Montero-Vargas, M., McKemy, J., Rane, K., Balbalian, C.J., Castlebury, L.A. 2023. Phylogeographic and phylogenomic structure of the quarantine plant pathogen Colletotrichum liriopes, including new reports in the United States. Plant Disease 107: 2816-2824.
  22. Escudero-Leyva, E., Vieto, S., Avendaño, R., Rojas-Gätjens, D., Agüero, P., Pacheco, C., Montero, M.L., Chaverri, P., Chavarría, M. 2023. Fungi with history: Unveiling the mycobiota of historic documents of Costa Rica. PLoS ONE 18(1):e0279914.
  23. Castro-Moretti, F.R., Cocuron, J.-C., Castillo-Gonzalez, H., Escudero-Levya, E., Chaverri, P., Filho, O.G., Slot, J.C., Alonso, A.P. 2023. A metabolomic platform to identify and quantify polyphenols in coffee and related species using liquid chromatography mass spectrometry. Frontiers in Plant Science 13: 1057645.
  24. Granados-Montero, M., Zuñiga-Castañeda, M., Chaverri, P., Escudero-Leyva, E., Mardones-Hidalgo, M. 2022. Patogenicidad de hongos asociados a plantas de fresa y descripción ultraestructural del patosistema [Pathogenicity of fungi associated to strawberries and ultrastructural description of the pathosystem] Agronomía Costarricense 46: 9-28.
  25. Campos-Esquivel, L., Hanson, P.E., Escudero-Leyva, E., Chaverri, P. 2022. Virulence of native isolates of entomopathogenic fungi (Hypocreales) against the "sweetpotato whitefly" Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), including the effects of temperature and fungicides. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 192: 07787.
  26. Crous PW, Sandoval-Denis M, Costa MM, Groenewald JZ, van Iperen AL, Starink-Willemse M, Hernández-Restrepo M, Kandemir H, Ulaszewski B, de Boer W, Abdel-Azeem AM, Abdollahzadeh J, Akulov A, Bakhshi M, Bezerra JDP, Bhunjun A, Câmara MPS, Chaverri P, Vieira WAS, Decock CA, Gaya E, Gené J, Guarro J, Gramaje D, Grube M, Gupta VK, Guarnaccia V, Hill R, Hirooka Y, Hyde KD, Jayawardena RS, Jeewon R, Jurjević Ž, Korsten L, Lamprecht SC, Lombard L, Maharachchikumbura SSN, Polizzi G, Rajeshkumar KC, Salgado-Salazar C, Shivas RG, Summerbell RC, Sun GY, Swart WJ, Tan YP, Vizzini A, Xia JW, Zare R, González CD, Iturriaga T, Savary O, Coton M, Coton E, Jany J-L, Liu C, Zhuang W-Y, Yu Z-H, Zeng Z-Q, Thines M. 2022. Fusarium and allied fusarioid taxa (FUSA). 1. Fungal Systematics and Evolution 9: 161–199.
  27. Camargos Fonseca, P.L., Skaltsas, D., Ferreira da Silva, F., Bentes Kato, R., Marques de Castro, G., Yupanqui García, G.J., Quintanilha-Peixoto, G., […], Chaverri, P., Vaz, A.B.M., Góes-Neto, A. 2022. An integrative view of phyllosphere mycobiome of native rubber trees in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Fungi 8: 373
  28. Chaverri, P., Chaverri, G. 2022. Fungal communities in feces of the frugivorous bat Ectophylla alba and its highly specialized Ficus colubrinae Animal Microbiome 4: 24
  29. Escudero-Leyva, E., Alfaro-Vargas, P., Muñoz-Arrieta, R., Charpentier-Alfaro, C., Granados-Montero, M., Alvarado-Picado, E., Rodríguez-Rodríguez, C., Chaverri, P., Mora-Villalobos, A. 2022. Tolerance and biological removal of fungicides by Trichoderma species isolated from the endosphere of wild Rubiaceae plants. Frontiers in Agronomy 3: 772170
  30. Vieto, S., E. Escudero-Leyva, R. Avendaño, N. Rechnitzer, M.D. Barrantes-Madrigal, G. Conejo-Barboza, O.A. Herrera-Sancho, Chaverri, M. Chavarría. 2022. Biodeterioration and cellulolytic activity by fungi isolated from a nineteenth-century painting from the National Theatre of Costa Rica. Fungal Biology 126: 101-112

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