Lavin's recent publications associated with DNA sequence data sets (financial support from the National Science Foundation is gratefully acknowledged)

Lavin's publications associated with DNA sequence data sets

(and miscellaneous other publications from recent years)

The financial support of the National Science Foundation is gratefully acknowledged

All sequence data used in these studies are banked at Genbank and TreeBase

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2007. Snyder, J. C., B. Wiedenheft, M. Lavin, F. F. Roberto, J. Spuhler, A. C. Ortmann, T. Douglas, M. Young. No Boundaries: virus movement maintains local virus population diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy, USA 104 (48): 19102–19107.

2007. Ribeiro, R. A., M. Lavin, J. P. Lemos Filho, C. V. Mendonça Filho, F. R. Santos, M. B. Lovato. The Genus Machaerium (Leguminosae) is more closely related to Aeschynomene sect. Ochopodium than to Dalbergia: relationships inferred from combined sequence data. Systematic Botany 32: 762-771. Data sets. TreeBase study number S1852.

2006. Delgado-Salinas, A., R. Bibler, and M. Lavin. Phylogeny of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae): a recent diversification in an ancient landscape. Systematic Botany 31 (4): 779-791. Data sets. TreeBase study accession S1553.

2006. Lavin, M. Floristic and geographic stability of discontinuous seasonally dry tropical forests explains patterns of plant phylogeny and endemism, Chapter 19. Pp. 433-447 In Neotropical savannas and seasonally dry forests: plant biodiversity, biogeographic patterns and conservation. Eds. R. T. Pennington, J. A. Ratter, G. P. Lewis. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. A detailed rates analysis of the genus Coursetia (from the Robinieae TreeBase study accession number S813) and Inga (includes chronograms for both data sets).

2005. Pennington, R. T., M. Lavin, D. E. Prado, C. A. Pendry, and S. K. Pell. Climate change and speciation in Neotropical seasonally dry forest plants, Chapter 17. Pp. 199-214. Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change, eds.Y. Malhi and O. Phillips. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. (from TreeBase S928)

2005. Schrire, B. D., M. Lavin, and G. P. Lewis. Pp. 21-54, Biogeography of the Leguminosae, in Lewis, G., B. Schrire, B. Mackinder, and M. Lock [editors]. Legumes of the world. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. biogeographic data sets.

2005. Schrire, B. D., M. Lavin, and G. P. Lewis. Global distribution patterns of the Leguminosae: insights from recent phylogenies. In I. Friis & H. Balslev (eds.), Plant diversity and complexity patterns: local, regional and global dimensions. Biologiske Skrifter 55: 375-422. biogeographic data sets.

2005. Lavin, M., P. Herendeen, and M. F. Wojciechowski. Evolutionary rates analysis of Leguminosae implicates a rapid diversification of lineages during the Tertiary. Systematic Biology 54 (4): 530-549. Data sets: rbcL (TreeBase study accession numbers S578) and matK.

2004. Delgado-Salinas, A., and M. Lavin. (1639-1640) Proposals to change the conserved type of Phaseolus helvolus, nom. cons. and to conserve the name Glycine umbellata with a conserved type (Fabaceae). Taxon 53 (3): 839-841.

2004. Lavin, M., B. D. Schrire, G. Lewis, R. T. Pennington, A. Delgado-Salinas, M. Thulin, C. E. Hughes, A. Beyra-Matos, and M. F. Wojciechowski. Metacommunity processes rather than continental tectonic history better explain geographically structured phylogenies in legumes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Biological Series 359 (1450): 1509-1522. A Bayesian and penalized likelihood analysis of TreeBase study accession numbers S1968 and most others listed below.

2004. Pennington, R. T., M. Lavin, D. E. Prado, C. A Pendry, S. Pell, and C. Butterworth. Neotropical seasonally dry forest plants show patterns of both Tertiary and Quaternary diversification. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences 359: 515-538. data sets. TreeBase study accession number S928.

2004. Riley-Hulting, E. T., A. Delgado-Salinas, and M. Lavin. Phylogenetic systematics of Strophostyles (Fabaceae): a North American temperate genus within a Neotropical diversification. Systematic Botany 29 (3): 627-653. data sets. TreeBase study accession 1015.

2004. Thulin, M., M. Lavin, R. Pasquet, and A. Delgado-Salinas. Phylogeny and biogeography of Wajira (Leguminosae): a monophyletic segregate of Vigna centered in the Horn of Africa region. Systematic Botany 29 (4): 903-920. data sets. TreeBase study accession S1072.

2004. Wojciechowski, M. F., M. Lavin, and M. J. Sanderson. A phylogeny of legumes (Leguminosae) based on analysis of the plastid matK gene resolves many well-supported subclades within the family. American Journal of Botany 91: 1846-1862. TreeBase study accession S1968.

2003. Lavin, M., M. F. Wojciechowski, P. Gasson, C. H. Hughes, and E. Wheeler. Phylogeny of robinioid legumes (Fabaceae) revisited: Coursetia and Gliricidia recircumscribed, and a biogeographical appraisal of the Caribbean endemics. Systematic Botany 28: 387-409. data sets. TreeBase study accession number S813.

2003. Schrire, B.D., M. Lavin, N. P. Barker, H. Cortes-Burns, I. von Senger, and J.-H. Kim. Towards a phylogeny of Indigofera (Leguminosae - Papilionoideae): identification of major clades and relative ages. In A. Bruneau and B. Klitgaard (eds.), pp. 269-302. Advances in legume systematics, part 10. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. data sets. TreeBase study accession number S784.

2002. Hu, J.-M., M. Lavin, M. F. Wojciechowski, and M. J. Sanderson. Phylogenetic analysis of nuclear ribosomal ITS/5.8 S sequences in the tribe Millettieae (Fabaceae): Poecilanthe-Cyclolobium, the core Millettieae, and the Callerya group. Systematic Botany 27: 722-733. data sets. TreeBase study accession number S760.

2001. Lavin, M., R. T. Pennington, B. B. Klitgaard, J. I. Sprent, H. C. de Lima, and P. Gasson. The dalbergioid legumes (Fabaceae): circumscription of a monophyletic pantropical clade. American Journal of Botany 88: 503-533. data sets. TreeBase study accession number S752.

2001. Lavin, M., M. F. Wojciechowski, A. Richman, J. Rotella, M. J. Sanderson, A. Beyra-Matos. Identifying Tertiary radiations of Fabaceae in the Greater Antilles: alternatives to cladistic vicariance analysis. International Journal of Plant Sciences 162 (6 supplement): S53-S76. data sets. TreeBase study accession number S754.

2001. Pennington, R. T., M. Lavin, H. Ireland, B. Klitgaard, J. Preston, and J.-M. Hu. Phylogenetic relationships of basal papilionoid legumes based upon sequences of the chloroplast trnL intron. Systematic Botany 26: 537-556. TreeBase study accession number S757.

2001. Thulin, M. and M. Lavin. Phylogeny and biogeography of the Ormocarpum group (Fabaceae): a new genus Zygocarpum from the Horn of Africa region. Systematic Botany 26: 299-317. data sets. TreeBase study accession number S762.

2000. Hu, J.-M., M. Lavin, M. F. Wojciechowski, and M. J. Sanderson. Phylogenetic systematics of the tribe Millettieae (Leguminosae) base on chloroplast trnK/matK sequences and its implications for evolutionary patterns in Papilionoideae. American Journal of Botany 87(3): 418–430. TreeBase study accession number S759.

2000. Lavin, M., M. Thulin, J.-N. Labat, and R. T. Pennington. Africa, the odd man out: molecular biogeographic studies of dalbergioid legumes (Fabaceae) suggest otherwise. Systematic Botany 25 (3): 449-467. ITS/5.8S and matK/trnK data sets. TreeBase study accession number S755.

1999. Delgado-Salinas, A., T. Turley, A. Richman, and M. Lavin. Phylogenetic analysis of the cultivated and wild species of Phaseolus (Fabaceae) Systematic Botany 24: 438-460. data sets. TreeBase study accession number S751.

1999. Beyra-M. and M. Lavin. A monograph of Pictetia (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae) and review of Aeschynomene. Systematic Botany Monographs 46: 1-93. data sets. TreeBase study accession number S756.

1998. Lavin, M., E. Eshbaugh, J.-M. Hu, S. Mathews, and R. A. Sharrock. Monophyletic subgroups of the tribe Milletieae (Leguminosae) as revealed by phytochrome nucleotide sequence data. American Journal of Botany 85: 412-433. data sets. TreeBase study accession number S753.

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