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1. Steindorff A, Cai F, Ding M, Jiang S, Atanasova L, Baker S, Barbosa-Filho J, Bayram Akcapinar G, Brown D, Chaverri P, Chen P, et al., Druzhinina IS. Phenogenomic determinants of ecological plasticity and fitness in the genus Trichoderma. Nat Microbiol. 2026, 11:815-831. doi: 10.1038/s41564-026-02260-3.

2. Kruhler N, Shakya SR, Dubey M, Sützl L, Peterbauer C, Karlsson M, Sandgren M, Atanasova L*. Structural insights into cellobiose dehydrogenases of a non-lignocellulolytic fungus and their transcriptional dynamics across different nutritional modes. Microbiol Spectr. 2025, doi: 10.1128/spectrum.02577-25.

3. Atanasova L*, Marchetti-Deschmann M, Nemes A, et al. Mycoparasitism related targets of Tmk1 indicate stimulating regulatory functions of this MAP kinase in Trichoderma atroviride. Sci Rep. 2023, 13:19976. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-47027-6.

4. Atanasova L*, Moreno-Ruiz D, Grünwald-Gruber C, Hell V, Zeilinger S. The GPI-Anchored GH76 Protein Dfg5 Affects Hyphal Morphology and Osmoregulation in the Mycoparasite Trichoderma atroviride and Is Interconnected With MAPK Signaling. Front Microbiol. 2021, 12:601113. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.601113.

5. Mesny F, Miyauchi S, Thiergart T, Pickel B, Atanasova L, et al. Genetic determinants of endophytism in the Arabidopsis root mycobiome. Nat Commun. 2021, 12(1):7227. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-27479-y.

6. Atanasova L*, Dubey M, Grujić M, Gudmundsson M, et al. Evolution and functional characterization of pectate lyase PEL12, a member of a highly expanded Clonostachys rosea polysaccharide lyase 1 family. BMC Microbiol. 2018, 18(1):178. doi: 10.1186/s12866-018-1310-9.

7. Atanasova L, Gruber S, Lichius A, Radebner T et al. The Gpr1-regulated Sur7 family protein Sfp2 is required for hyphal growth and cell wall stability in the mycoparasite Trichoderma atroviride. Sci Rep. 2018, 8(1):12064. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-30500-y.

8. Druzhinina IS, Chenthamara K, Zhang J, Atanasova L, et al. Massive lateral transfer of genes encoding plant cell wall-degrading enzymes to the mycoparasitic fungus Trichoderma from its plant-associated hosts. PLoS Genet. 2018, 14(4):e1007322. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007322.

9. de Man TJ, Stajich JE, Kubicek CP, Teiling C, Chenthamara K, Atanasova L, Druzhinina IS, Levenkova N, Birnbaum SS, Barribeau SM, Bozick BA, Suen G, Currie CR, Gerardo NM. Small genome of the fungus Escovopsis weberi, a specialized disease agent of ant agriculture. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016, 113(13):3567-3572. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1518501113.

10. Atanasova L, Le Crom S, Gruber S, Coulpier F, et al. Comparative transcriptomics reveals different strategies of Trichoderma mycoparasitism. BMC Genomics. 2013, 14:121. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-121.