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Spatafora, J. W., T. G. Mitchell and R. Vilgalys. 1995. Analysis of Genes Coding for Small subunit rRNA Sequences in Studying Phylogenetics of Dematiaceous fungal Pathogens. Jour. Clinical Microbiol. 33: 1322-1326.

Spatafora, J. W. and M. Blackwell. 1994a. The polyphyletic origins of ophiostomatoid fungi.Mycological Research 98: 1-9.

Spatafora, J. W. and M. Blackwell. 1994b. Cladistic analysis of partial ssrDNA sequences among unitunicate, perithecial ascomycetes and its implication on the evolution of centrum development, Pp. 233-242. In Ascomycete Systematics. (ed.) Hawksworth, D . L. Plenum Press, London.

Spatafora, J. W. and M. Blackwell. 1993. Molecular systematics of unitunicate perithecial ascomycetes: The Clavicipitales-Hypocreales connection. Mycologia 85: 912-922.

Blackwell. M. and J. W. Spatafora. 1994. Molecular data sets and broad taxon sampling in detecting morphological convergence. Pp. 243-248. In Ascomycete Systematics. (ed.) Hawksworth, D. L. Plenum Press, London.

Blackwell, M., J. W. Spatafora, D. Malloch and J. W. Taylor. 1993. Consideration of higher taxonomic relationships involving Pyxidiophora. Pp.105-108. In Ceratocystis and Ophiostoma: Taxonomy, Ecology and Pathology. (eds.) Wingfield, M. J., K. A. Seif ert and J. F. Webber. APS, St. Paul.

Kaltenboeck, B. K., J. W. Spatafora, X. Zhang, K. Kousoulas, M. Blackwell and J. Stortz. 1992. Efficient production of single-stranded DNA as long as 2 kb for sequencing of PCR-amplified DNA. Biotechniques 12(2): 164-171.

Spatafora, J. W., B. Volkmann-Kohlmeyer and J. Kohlmeyer. 1996. Independent terrestrial origins of the Halosphaeriales (marine Ascomycota). Molec. Biol. Evol. (submitted).

Spatafora, J. W. The evolution of interkingdom host-shifts within the Clavicipitaceae (Ascomycota). (in preparation).