Departamento de Biología Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez
Dr. Matías J. Cafaro Curriculum Vitae Cursos Biol 6642 – Advanced Mycology Biol 4925 - Seminar	Posición Académica: Assistant Professor Educación: Ph. D. University of Kansas, 2003 Dirección: Departamento de Biología, Universidad de Puerto Rico Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-9012 Tel.- 787-832-4040 ext. 3950 Fax- 787-265-3837 Correo-e: mjcafaro@uprm.edu Intereses de Investigación: Broadly, I am interested in symbiosis between fungi and arthropods, their systematics, coevolution, and ecology. I study an obscure group of fungi called Trichomycetes, also known as gut fungi. They are obligate arthropod endosymbionts that grow attached to the lining of the digestive tracts of their hosts. Traditionally, they were thought to be fungi belonging to the Zygomycota, however, my research, using molecular sequence data, has shown that not all lineages of Trichomycetes are true fungi. Rather, some are more closely related to protists that are part of the basal lineage that gave rise to true fungi and animals. My major goal is to understand trichomycetes as an ecological group but within a phylogenetic context.
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