Priscila Chaverri - Publications

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Selected Publications

  • 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 (in press, available online https://doi.org/10.1002/agg2.20476)
  • Zuffa, S., et al. 2024. microbeMASST: A taxonomically-informed mass spectrometry search tool for microbial metabolomics data. Nature Microbiology 9: 336-345.
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Scott, K., Konkel, Z., Glück-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
  • Escudero-Leyva, E., Granados-Montero, M., Orozco-Ortiz, C., Araya-Valverde, E., Alvarado-Picado, E., Chaves-Fallas, J.M., Aldrich-Wolfe, L., Chaverri, P. 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, wrote a piece on this article. The news article is entitled: "Endophytes colonize and protect coffee seedlings." May 15th, 2023
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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. (Chaverri, corresponding author)
  • 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. 
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Chaverri, P., Chaverri, G. 2022. Fungal communities in feces of the frugivorous bat Ectophylla alba and its highly specialized Ficus colubrinae diet. Animal Microbiome 4: 24
  • 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 (P. Chaverri: corresponding author)
  • Vieto, S., E. Escudero-Leyva*, R. Avendaño, N. Rechnitzer, M.D. Barrantes-Madrigal, G. Conejo-Barboza, O.A. Herrera-Sancho, P. 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 (P. Chaverri: corresponding author)
  • Adamo, I., E. Ortiz-Malavasi, R. Chazdon, P. Chaverri, H. ter Steege, J. Geml. 2021. Richness and composition of soil fungal communities correlate with site-specific abiotic factors, tree community composition, and forest age in regenerating tropical rainforests. Biology 10(11): 1120. (Special issue: Diversity of Soil Fungal Communities) (cover image and story)
  • Crous, P.W., Lombard, L., Sandoval-Denis, M., Seifert, K.A., Schroers, H.-J., Chaverri, P., et al. 2021. Fusarium: more than a node or a foot-shaped basal cell. Studies in Mycology 98: 100116.
  • Barrera, V., Iannone, L., Romero, A. I., Chaverri, P. 2021. Expanding the Trichoderma harzianum species complex: Two new species from Argentinian natural and cultivated ecosystems. Mycologia 113: 1136-1155.
  • Granados-Montero, M., Chaves-Barrantes, N., Chaverri, P., Hernandez-Fonseca, J.C., Escudero-Leyva, E.* 2021. Fungi associated with common bean wilt in Costa Rica. Revista Mexicana de Fitopatología-Mexican Journal of Phytopathology 39 (in press).
  • Seas, C.*, Chaverri, P. 2020. Response to experimental temperature increase by psychrophilic plant endosymbionts. Royal Society Open Science 7: 201405.
  • Fernandes da Silva, R.A., Pereira de Almeida, C., Reis, A., Mendes Aguiar, F., Chaverri, P., Batista Pinho, D. 2020. Three new species of Gliocephalotrichum causing fruit rot on different hosts from the Brazilian cerrado. Mycologia 112: 1003-1016.
  • González, C.D.*, Morales, R.A., Chaverri, P. 2020. Life cycle and in vitro sporulation dynamics of Corinectria constricta, the causal agent of Pinus radiata stem canker, in Chile. Forest Pathology 80(3): e12594.
  • Montero-Vargas, M., Umaña-Jiménez, J., Escudero-Leiva, E.*, & Chaverri, P. 2020. Phylogenetic analysis of ITS data from endophytic fungi using Massive Parallel Bayesian Tree Inference with Exabayes. Revista Tecnología En Marcha, 33(5): 74-79.
  • Montero-Vargas, M., Escudero-Leyva, E.*, Díaz-Valerio, S., Chaverri, P. 2020. Step-bystep pipeline for the ecological analysis of endophytic fungi. Current Protocols in Microbiology 56(1):e96.
  • Talavera-Ortiz, A., Chaverri, P., Díaz-Godínez, G., Acosta-Urdapilleta, M.L., Villegas, E., Maura Téllez-Téllez. 2020. Mycelial inhibition of Trichoderma spp. isolated from the cultivation of Pleurotus ostreatus with an extract of Pycnoporus sp. Acta Botanica Mexicana 127: e1537.
  • Pujade-Renaud, V., M. Déon, R. Gazis*, S. Ribeiro, S. Labernia, F. Granet, F. Dessailly, P. Chaverri. 2019. Endophytes from wild rubber trees as antagonists of the pathogen Corynespora cassiicola. Phytopathology 109:1888-1899.
  • Skaltsas, D.*, Badotti, F., Vaz, A.B.M., Gazis, R., Wurdack, K., Castlebury, L.A., GóesNeto, A., Chaverri, P. 2019. Exploration of stem endophytic communities revealed developmental stage as one of the drivers of fungal endophytic community assemblages in two Amazonian hardwood genera. Scientific Reports 9: 12685.
  • Vaz, A. B. M., Fonseca, P. L.C., Badotti, F., Skaltsas*, D., Tomé, L. M. R., Silva, A. C., Cunha, M. C., Soares, M. A., Santos, V. L., Oliveira, G., Chaverri, P., Góes-Neto, A. 2018. A multiscale study of fungal endophyte communities of the foliar endosphere of native rubber trees in Eastern Amazon. Scientific Reports 8: 16151.
  • Fonseca, P.L.C.; Aguiar, E.R.G.R.; Badotti, F.; Oliveira, T.F.P.1; Fonseca, A.A.; Vaz, A.B.M.; Tomé, L.M.R.; Abrahão, J.S.; Marques, J.T.; Trindade, G.S.; Chaverri, P.; Góes-Neto, A. 2018. Virome analyses of Hevea brasiliensis using small RNA deep sequencing and PCR techniques reveal the presence of a potential new virus. Virology Journal 15(1):184.
  • Coronado, C., Avendaño, R., Escudero-Leyva, E.*, Conejo-Barboza, G., Chaverri, P., Chavarría, M. 2018. Two new cellulolytic fungal species isolated from a 19th-century art collection. Scientific Reports 8: 7492. , Jingxin Wang, Sao-Mai Nguyen-Mau, Vincent Lee and Herman O. Sintim.  Biological screening of a diverse set of AI-2 analogs in Vibrio harveyi suggests that receptors, which are involved in synergistic agonism of AI-2 and analogs are promiscuous. Chem. Commun. 2009, 7033-7035

* Students under Chaverri supervision

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