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Anthony Amend, PhD

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Faculty RankAssociate Professor
InstitutionUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa
DepartmentBotany
AddressSchool of Life Sciences
University of Hawaii at Mānoa
1800 East-West Road
Honolulu HI 96822
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    1. Zahn G, Amend A, Gladfelter A. Mycology: The rising tide of marine fungal research. Curr Biol. 2025 Oct 20; 35(20):R946-R948. PMID: 41118732.
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    2. Fatemi S, Kriefall NG, Yogi D, Weber D, Hynson NA, Medeiros MCI, Sadowski P, Amend AS. Microbial composition and function are nested and shaped by food web topologies. ISME Commun. 2025 Jan; 5(1):ycaf175. PMID: 41158324.
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    3. Rahimlou S, Amend AS, James TY. Malassezia in environmental studies is derived from human inputs. mBio. 2025 Jun 11; 16(6):e0114225. PMID: 40387408.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsPHPublic Health
    4. Kajihara KT, Yuan M, Amend AS, Cetraro N, Darcy JL, Fraiola KMS, Frank K, McFall-Ngai M, Medeiros MCI, Nakayama KK, Nelson CE, Rollins RL, Sparagon WJ, Swift SOI, T?fit MA, Yew JY, Yogi D, Hynson NA. Diversity, connectivity and negative interactions define robust microbiome networks across land, stream, and sea. bioRxiv. 2025 Jan 10. PMID: 39829850.
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    5. Baer JL, Kajihara KT, Vilonen LL, Hall AJ, Young CM, Yogi DK, Medeiros MCI, Amend AS, Hynson NA. Microbiome spatial scaling varies among members, hosts, and environments across model island ecosystems. ISME J. 2025 Jan 02; 19(1). PMID: 41081742.
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    6. Steinbach RM, Whitner S, Amend AS. Marine fungi degrade plastic and can be conditioned to do it faster. Mycologia. 2025 Jan-Feb; 117(1):1-8. PMID: 39636713.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsPHPublic Health
    7. Mannochio-Russo H, Swift SOI, Nakayama KK, Wall CB, Gentry EC, Panitchpakdi M, Caraballo-Rodriguez AM, Aron AT, Petras D, Dorrestein K, Dorrestein TK, Williams TM, Nalley EM, Altman-Kurosaki NT, Martinelli M, Kuwabara JY, Darcy JL, Bolzani VS, Wegley Kelly L, Mora C, Yew JY, Amend AS, McFall-Ngai M, Hynson NA, Dorrestein PC, Nelson CE. Microbiomes and metabolomes of dominant coral reef primary producers illustrate a potential role for immunolipids in marine symbioses. Commun Biol. 2023 08 31; 6(1):896. PMID: 37653089.
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    8. Steinbach RM, El Baidouri F, Vogt E, Mitchison-Field LMY, Lim FY, Ekena J, Vogt E, Gladfelter A, Theberge AB, Amend AS. Malassezia is widespread and has undescribed diversity in the marine environment. Fungal Ecol. 2023 Oct; 65. PMID: 40893143.
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    9. N??ez-Pons L, Cunning R, Nelson CE, Amend AS, Sogin EM, Gates R, Ritson-Williams R. Hawaiian coral holobionts reveal algal and prokaryotic host specificity, intraspecific variability in bleaching resistance, and common interspecific microbial consortia modulating thermal stress responses. Sci Total Environ. 2023 Sep 01; 889:164040. PMID: 37209745.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    10. Amend AS, Swift SOI, Darcy JL, Belcaid M, Nelson CE, Buchanan J, Cetraro N, Fraiola KMS, Frank K, Kajihara K, McDermot TG, McFall-Ngai M, Medeiros M, Mora C, Nakayama KK, Nguyen NH, Rollins RL, Sadowski P, Sparagon W, T?fit MA, Yew JY, Yogi D, Hynson NA. A ridge-to-reef ecosystem microbial census reveals environmental reservoirs for animal and plant microbiomes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 08 16; 119(33):e2204146119. PMID: 35960845.
      Citations: 11     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    11. Darcy JL, Amend AS, Swift SOI, Sommers PS, Lozupone CA. specificity: an R package for analysis of feature specificity to environmental and higher dimensional variables, applied to microbiome species data. Environ Microbiome. 2022 Jun 25; 17(1):34. PMID: 35752802.
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    12. Boraks A, Amend AS. Fungi in soil and understory have coupled distribution patterns. PeerJ. 2021; 9:e11915. PMID: 34616592.
      Citations: 3     Fields:    
    13. El Baidouri F, Zalar P, James TY, Gladfelter AS, Amend AS. Evolution and Physiology of Amphibious Yeasts. Annu Rev Microbiol. 2021 10 08; 75:337-357. PMID: 34351793.
      Citations: 6     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    14. Tipton L, Zahn GL, Darcy JL, Amend AS, Hynson NA. Hawaiian Fungal Amplicon Sequence Variants Reveal Otherwise Hidden Biogeography. Microb Ecol. 2022 Jan; 83(1):48-57. PMID: 33742230.
      Citations: 11     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    15. Bernard J, Wall CB, Costantini MS, Rollins RL, Atkins ML, Cabrera FP, Cetraro ND, Feliciano CKJ, Greene AL, Kitamura PK, Olmedo-Velarde A, Sirimalwatta VNS, Sung HW, Thompson LPM, Vu HT, Wilhite CJ, Amend AS. Plant part and a steep environmental gradient predict plant microbial composition in a tropical watershed. ISME J. 2021 04; 15(4):999-1009. PMID: 33188299.
      Citations: 17     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCellsPHPublic Health
    16. Boraks A, Plunkett GM, Doro TM, Alo F, Sam C, Tuiwawa M, Ticktin T, Amend AS. Scale-Dependent Influences of Distance and Vegetation on the Composition of Aboveground and Belowground Tropical Fungal Communities. Microb Ecol. 2021 May; 81(4):874-883. PMID: 33025061.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsPHPublic Health
    17. Darcy JL, Swift SOI, Cobian GM, Zahn GL, Perry BA, Amend AS. Fungal communities living within leaves of native Hawaiian dicots are structured by landscape-scale variables as well as by host plants. Mol Ecol. 2020 08; 29(16):3103-3116. PMID: 32640084.
      Citations: 10     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
    18. Tipton L, Zahn G, Datlof E, Kivlin SN, Sheridan P, Amend AS, Hynson NA. Fungal aerobiota are not affected by time nor environment over a 13-y time series at the Mauna Loa Observatory. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 12 17; 116(51):25728-25733. PMID: 31801876.
      Citations: 10     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsPHPublic Health
    19. Vargas-Gast?lum L, Chong-Robles J, Lago-Lest?n A, Darcy JL, Amend AS, Riquelme M. Targeted ITS1 sequencing unravels the mycodiversity of deep-sea sediments from the Gulf of Mexico. Environ Microbiol. 2019 11; 21(11):4046-4061. PMID: 31336033.
      Citations: 9     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    20. Cobian GM, Egan CP, Amend AS. Plant-microbe specificity varies as a function of elevation. ISME J. 2019 11; 13(11):2778-2788. PMID: 31300724.
      Citations: 21     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    21. Gladfelter AS, James TY, Amend AS. Marine fungi. Curr Biol. 2019 03 18; 29(6):R191-R195. PMID: 30889385.
      Citations: 50     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    22. Amend AS, Cobian GM, Laruson AJ, Remple K, Tucker SJ, Poff KE, Antaky C, Boraks A, Jones CA, Kuehu D, Lensing BR, Pejhanmehr M, Richardson DT, Riley PP. Phytobiomes are compositionally nested from the ground up. PeerJ. 2019; 7:e6609. PMID: 30918757.
      Citations: 16     Fields:    
    23. Amend A, Burgaud G, Cunliffe M, Edgcomb VP, Ettinger CL, Guti?rrez MH, Heitman J, Hom EFY, Ianiri G, Jones AC, Kagami M, Picard KT, Quandt CA, Raghukumar S, Riquelme M, Stajich J, Vargas-Mu?iz J, Walker AK, Yarden O, Gladfelter AS. Fungi in the Marine Environment: Open Questions and Unsolved Problems. mBio. 2019 03 05; 10(2). PMID: 30837337.
      Citations: 115     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    24. Hynson NA, Frank KL, Alegado RA, Amend AS, Arif M, Bennett GM, Jani AJ, Medeiros MCI, Mileyko Y, Nelson CE, Nguyen NH, Nigro OD, Prisic S, Shin S, Takagi D, Wilson ST, Yew JY. Synergy among Microbiota and Their Hosts: Leveraging the Hawaiian Archipelago and Local Collaborative Networks To Address Pressing Questions in Microbiome Research. mSystems. 2018 Mar-Apr; 3(2). PMID: 29556540.
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    25. Zahn G, Amend AS. Foliar microbiome transplants confer disease resistance in a critically-endangered plant. PeerJ. 2017; 5:e4020. PMID: 29134155.
      Citations: 13     Fields:    
    26. Datlof EM, Amend AS, Earl K, Hayward J, Morden CW, Wade R, Zahn G, Hynson NA. Uncovering unseen fungal diversity from plant DNA banks. PeerJ. 2017; 5:e3730. PMID: 28875077.
      Citations: 8     Fields:    
    27. Wainwright BJ, Zahn GL, Spalding HL, Sherwood AR, Smith CM, Amend AS. Fungi associated with mesophotic macroalgae from the 'Au'au Channel, west Maui are differentiated by host and overlap terrestrial communities. PeerJ. 2017; 5:e3532. PMID: 28713652.
      Citations: 11     Fields:    
    28. O'Rorke R, Tooman L, Gaughen K, Holland BS, Amend AS. Not just browsing: an animal that grazes phyllosphere microbes facilitates community heterogeneity. ISME J. 2017 08; 11(8):1788-1798. PMID: 28452997.
      Citations: 3     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    29. Amend AS, Martiny AC, Allison SD, Berlemont R, Goulden ML, Lu Y, Treseder KK, Weihe C, Martiny JB. Microbial response to simulated global change is phylogenetically conserved and linked with functional potential. ISME J. 2016 Jan; 10(1):109-18. PMID: 26046258.
      Citations: 52     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCellsPHPublic Health
    30. Matulich KL, Weihe C, Allison SD, Amend AS, Berlemont R, Goulden ML, Kimball S, Martiny AC, Martiny JB. Temporal variation overshadows the response of leaf litter microbial communities to simulated global change. ISME J. 2015 Nov; 9(11):2477-89. PMID: 25978544.
      Citations: 43     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCellsPHPublic Health
    31. Amend AS, Matulich KL, Martiny JB. Nitrogen addition, not initial phylogenetic diversity, increases litter decomposition by fungal communities. Front Microbiol. 2015; 6:109. PMID: 25741330.
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    32. O'Rorke R, Cobian GM, Holland BS, Price MR, Costello V, Amend AS. Dining local: the microbial diet of a snail that grazes microbial communities is geographically structured. Environ Microbiol. 2015 May; 17(5):1753-64. PMID: 25285515.
      Citations: 15     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    33. Amend A. From dandruff to deep-sea vents: Malassezia-like fungi are ecologically hyper-diverse. PLoS Pathog. 2014 Aug; 10(8):e1004277. PMID: 25144294.
      Citations: 64     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
    34. Adams RI, Amend AS, Taylor JW, Bruns TD. A unique signal distorts the perception of species richness and composition in high-throughput sequencing surveys of microbial communities: a case study of fungi in indoor dust. Microb Ecol. 2013 Nov; 66(4):735-41. PMID: 23880792.
      Citations: 25     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsPHPublic Health
    35. Kerekes J, Kaspari M, Stevenson B, Nilsson RH, Hartmann M, Amend A, Bruns TD. Nutrient enrichment increased species richness of leaf litter fungal assemblages in a tropical forest. Mol Ecol. 2013 May; 22(10):2827-38. PMID: 23601077.
      Citations: 13     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCellsPHPublic Health
    36. Amend AS, Barshis DJ, Oliver TA. Coral-associated marine fungi form novel lineages and heterogeneous assemblages. ISME J. 2012 Jul; 6(7):1291-301. PMID: 22189500.
      Citations: 58     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    37. Hynson NA, Mambelli S, Amend AS, Dawson TE. Measuring carbon gains from fungal networks in understory plants from the tribe Pyroleae (Ericaceae): a field manipulation and stable isotope approach. Oecologia. 2012 Jun; 169(2):307-17. PMID: 22108855.
      Citations: 12     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    38. Amend AS, Seifert KA, Bruns TD. Quantifying microbial communities with 454 pyrosequencing: does read abundance count? Mol Ecol. 2010 Dec; 19(24):5555-65. PMID: 21050295.
      Citations: 155     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    39. Amend AS, Seifert KA, Samson R, Bruns TD. Indoor fungal composition is geographically patterned and more diverse in temperate zones than in the tropics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Aug 03; 107(31):13748-53. PMID: 20616017.
      Citations: 134     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsPHPublic Health
    40. Amend A, Keeley S, Garbelotto M. Forest age correlates with fine-scale spatial structure of Matsutake mycorrhizas. Mycol Res. 2009 May; 113(5):541-51. PMID: 19284979.
      Citations: 7     Fields:    Translation:Animals
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