Donald H. Pfister
- Title
- Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany, Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology; Interim Director of the Herbaria; Curator of the Farlow Herbarium
- dpfister@oeb.harvard.edu
- Telephone
- 617-495-2368
- Fax
- 617-495-9484
- Department
- Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
- School
- Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Regions of Interest
- Latin American Region-wide or Comparative Work
- Mailing Address
- Farlow Herbarium 1 22 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138
- Office Location
- Farlow Herbarium 1
- Research Interest
- Plant and Fungal biology, especially mycology and mycological systematics, history of exploration in Latin America
- Web Page
- Courses
- Biology of fungi (OEB 53), Plants and human affairs (OEB 59), Freshman Seminar, Americans Explore: The United States Exploring Expedition 1838-1842
- Publications
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Hansen, K, K. F. LoBuglio, D. H. Pfister. 2005. Evolutionary relationships of the cup-fungus genus Peziza and Pezizaceae inferred from multiple nuclear genes: RPB2, -tublin, and LSU rDNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 36: 1-23.
Hansen, K, B. A. Perry, D. H. Pfister. 2006. Phylogenetic origins of two cleistohtecial fungi, Orbicula parietina and Lasiobolidium orbiculoides, within the operculate discomycetes. Mycologia 97: 1023-1033.
Iturriaga, T., D. H. Pfister. 2006. A monograph of the genus Cookeina (Ascomycota, Pezizales, Sarcoscyphaceae). Mycotaxon 95: 137-180.
James, T. Y. and others. 2006. Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny. Nature 445: 818-822.
Yang, S, D. H. Pfister. 2006. Monotropa uniflora plants of eastern Massachusetts form mycorrhizae with a diversity of russulacean fungi. Mycologia 98: 535-540.
Hansen, K., D. H. Pfister. 2006. Systematics of the Pezizomycetes – the operculate discomycetes. Mycologia 98: 1031-1041.