List of representative publications by members of the Molecular Phylogenetics Lab
at UC Berkeley

Andreasen, K., and B. Bremer. 2000. Combined phylogenetic analysis in the Rubiaceae-Ixoroideae: morphology, nuclear, and chloroplast DNA data. American Journal of Botany,in press.

Andreasen, K., B. G. Baldwin, and B. Bremer. 1999. Phylogenetic utility of the nuclear rDNA ITS region in subfamily Ixoroideae (Rubiaceae): Comparisons with cpDNA rbcL sequence data. Plant Systematics and Evolution 217: 119-135.

Baldwin, B. G., and B. L. Wessa. 2000. Phylogenetic placement of Peluchaand new subtribes in Helenieae sensu stricto (Compositae). Systematic Botany25: 522-538.

Baldwin, B.G., and S. Markos. 1998. Phylogenetic utility of the external transcribed spacer (ETS) of 18S-26S rDNA: Congruence of ETS and ITS trees of Calycadenia(Compositae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution10: 449-463.

Baldwin, B.G., and M. J. Sanderson. 1998. Age and rate of diversification of the Hawaiian silversword alliance (Compositae). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 95: 9402-9406.

Caballero, S., H. Hamilton, L. Flórez-Gonzalez, J. Capella, C. Olavarría, H. Rosenbaum, and C. S. Baker. 2000. Stock identity and diversity of humpback whale mitochondrial DNA lineageson the Colombian winter breeding grounds. Report to the Scientific Commitee of the International Whaling Commission. SC/52/IA14.

Caballero, S., H. Hamilton, C. Jaramillo, J. Capella, L. Flórez-Gonzalez, C. Olavarría, H. Rosenbaum, F. Guhl, and C. S. Baker. 2000. Genetic characterization of the Colombian Pacific Coast humpback whale population using RAPDs and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Humpback Whale Conference, Queensland, Australia.

Collins, A. G. 1998. Evaluating multiple alternative hypotheses for the origin of Bilateria: An analysis of 18S rRNA molecular evidence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA95: 15458-15463.

Collins, A. G. 1999. Molecules and evolutionary history. In Springer D. and J. Scotchmoor (eds.) Evolution: investigating the evidence. Paleontological Society Papers, Vol. 3.

Collins, A. G. 2001 Towards understanding the phylogenetic history of Hydrozoa: hypothesis testing with 18S gene sequence data. Scientia Marina65 (Suppl. 1).

La Farge, C., B. D. Mishler, J. A. Wheeler, D. P. Wall, K. Johannes, S. Schaffer, and A. J. Shaw. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships within the Haplolepideous mosses. The Bryologist103: 257-276.

Hamilton, H., S. Caballero, A. G. Collins, and R. L. Brownell, Jr. 2001. Evolution of river dolphins. The Royal Society Proceedings: Biological Sciences 268: 549-556.

Lewis, L. A., B. D. Mishler, and R. Vilgalys. 1997. Phylogenetic relationships of the liverworts (Hepaticae), a basal embryophyte lineage, inferred from nucleotide sequence data of the chloroplast gene rbcL. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution7: 377-393.

McCourt, R. M., K. G. Karol. J. Bell., S. Fritz, K. Helm-Bychowski, A. Grajewska, M. F. Wojciechowski, and R. W. Hoshaw. 2000. Phylogeny of the conjugating green algae (Zygnemophyceae) based on rbcLsequences. Journal of Phycology36: 747-758.

Newton, A. E., C. J. Cox, J. G. Duckett, J. A. Wheeler, B. Goffinet, T. A. J. Hedderson, and B. D. Mishler. 2000. Evolution of the major moss lineages: phylogenetic analyses based on multiple gene sequences and morphology. The Bryologist103: 187-211.

Pryer, K. M., H. Schneider, A. R. Smith, R. Cranfill, P. G. Wolf, J. S. Hunt, and S. D. Sipes. 2001. Horsetails and ferns are a monophyletic group and the closest living relatives to seed plants. Nature409: 618- 622.

Sanderson, M. J., M. F. Wojciechowski, J.-M. Hu, T. Sher Khan, and S. G. Brady. 2000. Error, bias and long branch attraction in data for two chloroplast photosystem genes in seed plants. Molecular Biology and Evolution17: 782-797.

Valentine, J. W., and A. G. Collins. 2000. The significance of moulting in ecdysozoan evolution. Evolution and Development 2: 152-156.

Wheeler, J. A. 2000. Molecular phylogenetic reconstructions of the Marchantioid liverwort radiation. The Bryologist103: 314-333.

Wheeler, J. A., D. P. Wall, K. Johannes, and B. D. Mishler. 2000. Congruence and convergence in the moss family Calymperaceae: phylogenetic analysis of two chloroplast genes (rbcL and rps4) and morphology. Systematic Biology,in press.

Wojciechowski, M. F., M. J. Sanderson, and J-M. Hu. 1999. Evidence on the monophyly of Astragalus(Fabaceae) and its major subgroups based on nuclear ribosomal DNA ITS and chloroplast DNA trnL intron data. Systematic Botany24: 409-437.


* Names of lab members shown in boldface.

Last modified 13 February 2001.