Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

† Denotes student mentee

* Denotes equal authorship contribution

2025

Mora, J., Olson ,Matthew, Rocks ,Sara S., & and Zahn, G. 2025. Watershed urbanization alters aquatic plant mycobiomes through the loss of rare taxa. Mycologia, 117(2), 235–245. https://doi.org/10.1080/00275514.2025.2462525




2024

Miller, I. P., Laney, A. G., Zahn, G., Sheehan, B. J., Whitley, K. V., & Kuddus, R. H. 2024. Isolation and preliminary characterization of a novel bacteriophage vB_KquU_φKuK6 that infects the multidrug-resistant pathogen Klebsiella quasipneumoniae. Frontiers in Microbiology, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1472729




Wainwright, B. J., Leon, J.†, Vilela, E.†, Hickman, K. J. E.†, Caldwell, J.†, Aimone, B.†, Bischoff, P.†, Ohran, M.†, Morelli, M. W.†, Arlyza, I. S., Marwayana, O. N., & Zahn, G. 2024. Wallace’s line structures seagrass microbiota and is a potential barrier to the dispersal of marine bacteria. Environmental Microbiome. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-024-00568-3




Hickman, K. J. E.†, & Zahn, G. 2024. Ten simple rules for leading a successful undergraduate-intensive research lab. PLOS Computational Biology. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011994




2023

Mikryukov, V., Dulya, O., Zizka, A., Bahram, M., Hagh-Doust, N., Anslan, S., Prylutskyi, O., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Maestre, F. T., Nilsson, H., Pärn, J., Öpik, M., Moora, M., Zobel, M., Espenberg, M., Mander, Ü., Khalid, A. N., Corrales, A., Agan, A., … Zahn, G., … Tedersoo, L. 2023. Connecting the multiple dimensions of global soil fungal diversity. Science Advances, 9(48), eadj8016. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj8016




Wainwright, B. J., Millar, T.†, Bowen, L.†, Semon, L.†, Hickman, K. J. E.†, Lee, J. N., Yeo, Z. Y., & Zahn, G. 2023. The core mangrove microbiome reveals shared taxa potentially involved in nutrient cycling and promoting host survival. Environmental Microbiome, 18(1), 47. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-023-00499-5




Rawson, C.†, & Zahn, G. 2023. Inclusion of database outgroups reduces false positives in fungal metabarcoding taxonomic assignments. Mycologia. https://doi.org/10.1080/00275514.2023.2206931




2022

Watmough, S., Gilbert-Parkes, S., Basiliko, N., Lamit, L. J., Lilleskov, E. A., Andersen, R., … Zahn, G. 2022. Variation in carbon and nitrogen concentrations among peatland categories at the global scale. PLOS ONE, 17(11), e0275149. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275149




McGee, S.†, Tidwell, A.†, Riggs, E., Veltkamp, H.†, & Zahn, G. 2022. Long-term soil fungal community recovery after fire is impacted by climate change. Western North American Naturalist, 82(3). https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/wnan/vol82/iss3/3




Tedersoo, L., Mikryukov, V., Zizka, A., Bahram, M., Hagh-Doust, N., Anslan, S., Prylutskyi, O., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Maestre, F. T., Pärn, J., Öpik, M., Moora, M., Zobel, M., Espenberg, M., Mander, Ü., Khalid, A. N., Corrales, A., Agan, A., Vasco-Palacios, A.-M., Zahn, G., … Abarenkov, K. 2022. Global patterns in endemicity and vulnerability of soil fungi. Global Change Biology, n/a(n/a). https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16398




Zahn, G. 2022. Marker Genes (16S and ITS) Protocol for Plant Microbiome Analyses. BIO-PROTOCOL, 12(8). https://doi.org/10.21769/BioProtoc.4395




Earlier

Tedersoo, L., Mikryukov, V., Anslan, S., Bahram, M., Khalid, A. N., Corrales, A., Agan, A., Vasco-Palacios, A.-M., Saitta, A., Antonelli, A., Rinaldi, A. C., Verbeken, A., Sulistyo, B. P., Tamgnoue, B., Furneaux, B., Ritter, C. D., Nyamukondiwa, C., Sharp, C., Marín, C., … Zahn, G., … Abarenkov, K. 2021. The Global Soil Mycobiome consortium dataset for boosting fungal diversity research. Fungal Diversity. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-021-00493-7




Sur, G. L., Zahn, G., & Stacy, E. A. 2021. Examination of host-taxon, environment, and distance effects on leaf fungal endophytes in the dominant woody genus, Metrosideros, on Oʻahu. Fungal Ecology, 53, 101093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2021.101093




Quek, Z. B. R., Zahn, G., Lee, N. L. Y., Ooi, J. L. S., Lee, J. N., Huang, D., & Wainwright, B. J. 2021. Biogeographic structure of fungal communities in seagrass Halophilia ovalis across the Malay Peninsula. Environmental Microbiology Reports. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.13003




Egan, C. P., Koko, J. H., Muir, C. D., Zahn, G., Swift, S. O. I., Amend, A. S., & Hynson, N. A. 2021. Restoration of the mycobiome of the endangered Hawaiian mint Phyllostegia kaalaensis increases its resistance to a common powdery mildew. Fungal Ecology, 52, 101070. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2021.101070




Tipton, L., Zahn, G. L., Darcy, J. L., Amend, A. S., & Hynson, N. A. 2021. Hawaiian Fungal Amplicon Sequence Variants Reveal Otherwise Hidden Biogeography. Microbial Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-021-01730-x




Wainwright, B. J., Zahn, G. L., Afiq-Rosli, L., Tanzil, J. T. I., & Huang, D. 2020. Host age is not a consistent predictor of microbial diversity in the coral Porites lutea. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 14376. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71117-4




Darcy J L, Swift S, Cobian G M, Zahn G, Perry B A, Amend A.. 2020. Fungal communities living within leaves of native Hawaiian dicots are structured by landscape-scale variables as well as by host plants. Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15544




Zahn*, G., Tipton*, L., Datlof, E.†, Kivlin, S. N., Sheridan, P., Amend, A. S., & Hynson, N. A.. 2019. Fungal aerobiota are not affected by time nor environment over a 13-y time series at the Mauna Loa Observatory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1907414116




Benjamin J. Wainwright, Geoffrey L. Zahn, Joshua Zushi†, Nicole Li Ying Lee, Jillian Lean Sim Ooi, Jen Nie Lee, Danwei Huang. 2019. Seagrass-associated fungal communities show distance decay of similarity that has implications for seagrass management and restoration. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5631




Wainwright, B. J., Bauman, A. G., Zahn, G. L., Todd, P. A., & Huang, D. 2019. Characterization of fungal biodiversity and communities associated with the reef macroalga Sargassum ilicifolium reveals fungal community differentiation according to geographic locality and algal structure. Marine Biodiversity. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-019-00992-6




BJ Wainwright, L Afiq-Rosli, GL Zahn, D Huang. 2019. Characterisation of coral-associated bacterial communities in an urbanised marine environment shows strong divergence over small geographic scales. Coral Reefs, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-019-01837-1




G Zahn, AS Amend. 2019. Foliar fungi alter reproductive timing and allocation in Arabidopsis under normal and water-stressed conditions. Fungal Ecology 41, 101-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2019.04.002




Wainwright BJ., Zahn GL., Arlyza IS., Amend AS. 2018. Seagrass-associated fungal communities follow Wallace’s line, but host genotype does not structure fungal community. Journal of Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13168.




Zahn G., Amend AS. 2017. Foliar microbiome transplants confer disease resistance in a critically-endangered plant. PeerJ 5:e4020. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4020. https://peerj.com/articles/4020/




Datlof EM, Amend AS, Earl K, Hayward J, Morden CW, Wade R, Zahn G, Hynson NA. 2017. Uncovering unseen fungal diversity from plant DNA banks. PeerJ 5:e3730 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3730




Wainwright BJ, Zahn GL, Spalding HL, Sherwood AR, Smith CM, Amend AS. 2017. Fungi associated with mesophotic macroalgae from the ’Au‘au Channel, west Maui are differentiated by host and overlap terrestrial communities. PeerJ 5:e3532 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3532




Geoffrey Zahn, Rota Wagai, Seiichiro Yonemura. 2016. The effects of amoebal bacterivory on carbon and nitrogen dynamics depend on temperature and soil structure interactions. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 94:133-137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.11.021




Geoffrey Zahn, Steven L. Stephenson, Frederick W. Spiegel. 2014. Ecological distribution of protosteloid amoebae in New Zealand. PeerJ 2:e296; https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.296




Miriam De Haan, Christine Cocquyt, Alex Tice, Geoffrey Zahn, Frederick W. Spiegel. 2014. First records of Protosteloid Amoebae (Eumycetozoa) from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Plant Ecology and Evolution, 147:1, 85-92; https://doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.2014.883




Erin R. Murphy, Jacob Boxberger, Robert Colvin, Suk Je Lee, Geoffrey Zahn, Fred Loor, Kyoungtae Kim. 2011. Pil1, an eisosome organizer, plays an important role in the recruitment of synaptojanins and amphiphysins to facilitate receptor-mediated endocytosis in yeast. European Journal of Cell Biology, 90:10, 825-833. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejcb.2011.06.006