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- Ji NN, Gao C, Sandel B, Zheng Y, Chen L, Wu BW, Li XC, Wang YL, Lü PP, Sun X, Guo LD*. (2019). Late Quaternary climate change explains soil fungal community composition rather than richness in forest ecosystems Ecology & Evolution 9:6678–6692
- Wang XW*, Benoit I, Groenewald E, Houbraken J, Dai X, Peng M, Yang X, Gao C, Guo LD*. (2019). Community dynamics of Neocallimastigomycota in the yak rumen indicate an essential role for fungi with a bulbous morphotype in digesting lignin-rich plant biomass. Fungal Ecology 41: 34–44.
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- Wu BW, Gao C, Chen L, Buscot F, Goldmann K, Purahong W, Ji NN, Wang YL, Lü PP, Li XC, Guo LD* (2018). Host phylogeny is a major determinant of Fagaceae-associated ectomycorrhizal fungal community assembly at a regional scale. Frontier in Microbiology 9: 2409.
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- Chen L, Zheng Y, Gao C, Mi XC, Ma KP, Wubet T, Guo LD*. (2017). Phylogeny drives highly interconnected and nested mutualistic networks of woody plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a Chinese subtropical forest. Molecular Ecology 26: 2563–2575.
- Taylor JW, Branco S, Gao C, Hann-Soden C, Montoya L, Sylvain I, Gladieux P. 2017. Sources of fungal genetic variation and associating it with phenotypic diversity. Microbiology Spectrum 5(5): FUNK-0057-2016.
- Shi NN, Gao C, Zheng Y, Guo LD*. (2017). Effects of ectomycorrhizal fungal identity and diversity on subtropical tree competition. Journal of Plant Ecology 10: 47–55.
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- Zheng Y, Kim YC, Tian XF, Chen L, Yang W, Gao C, Song MH, Xu XL, Guo LD*. (2014). Differential responses of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to nitrogen addition in a near pristine Tibetan alpine meadow. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 89: 594–605.
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- Gao C, Guo LD*. (2013). Distribution pattern and maintenance of ectomycorrhizal fungus diversity. Biodiversity Science 21: 488-498. (In Chinese with English Abstract).
- Gao C. (2013). Community and Diversity Maintenance Mechanisms of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi and Soil Fungi in a Subtropical Forest. Ph.D. Dissertation. Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. (PhD dissertation)
- Sun X, Gao C, Guo LD*. (2013). Changes in soil microbial community and enzyme activity along an exotic plant Eupatorium adenophorum invasion in a Chinese secondary forest. Chinese Science Bulletin 58: 4101–4108
- Sun X, Gao C, Guo LD*. (2013). Changes in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus community along an exotic plant Eupatorium adenophorum invasion in a Chinese secondary forest. Journal of Microbiology 51: 295–300
- Yang W, Zheng Y, Gao C, He XH, Ding Q, Kim YC, Rui YC, Wan SQ, Guo LD*. (2013). The arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community response to warming and grazing differs between soil and roots on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau. PLoS ONE 8: e76447
- Sun CY, Xie LJ, Ding WJ, Yu JL, Ma K, Wang YW, Wang YH, Ji R, Shen SK, Li XZ, Zhang FL, Zhou J, Guo LD, Liang XC, Miao JH, Ma C, Ma S, Ma XF, Wang C, Wang HF, Long X, Liu B, Liu TM, Liu LN, Sun X, Yang WD, Yang PZ, Wu FQ, Zhang LQ, Zhang MZ, Lin QW, Hou QB, Xia W, Gao C, Huang YF, You J, Pan CL (2013). Poisonous Organisms. Beijing, China: People’s Medical Publication House. (Monograph; in Chinese).
- Gao C, Huang MR, Tao S, Sun X, Li J, Guo LD*. (2011). Seasonal dynamics of culturable bacterium numbers in freshwater bodies of different water quality in Beijing. Acta Ecologia Sinica 31: 1157-1163 (In Chinese with English Abstract).
- Wang Q, Gao C, Guo LD* (2011). Ectomycorrhizae associated with Castanopsis fargesii (Fagaceae) in a subtropical forest, China. Mycological Progress 10: 323–332