Papers and reviews

Young, S.E., and Pringle, A. (2026). The limits of a love affair with analogy: 23,000 sexes and the fungus Schizophyllum commune. Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology 18(1). DOI:10.3998/ptpbio.6744.

Young, S.E., Bryan, C.T., Gotting, K., and Currie, C. (in revision). Evidence for cryptic sex in Escovopsis, a mycoparasite in the fungus-growing ant symbiosis. Genome Biology and Evolution.

Young, S.E., and Pringle, A. (2025). Mycology: A Gene to Go Ballistic. Current Biology 35(7), PR254-R255. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.02.058.

Li, H.,Young, S.E., Poulsen, M., and Currie, C.R. (2021). Symbiont-Mediated Digestion of Plant Biomass in Fungus-Farming Insects. Annual Review of Entomology 66(1), 297-316. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-040920-061140.

Book Chapters and Essays

Young, S.E., and Pringle, A. (2026). Chapter 3: Fungal Sex and Reproduction. In The Complete Fungi: Evolution, Diversity and Ecology, Ed. D. Hibbett. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.