Selected Publications

Sliwinski, M. K., Bosch, J. A., Yoon, H.-S., von Balthazar, M. and Baum, D. A. Accepted pending revision. The role of two LEAFY paralogs from Idahoa scapigera (Brassicaceae) in the evolution of a derived plant architecture. The Plant Journal 51:211-219.

Davis, C.C., Latvis, M., Nickrent, D. L., Wurdack, K. J., and Baum, D. A. 2007. Floral Gigantism in Rafflesiaceae. Science 315: 1812.

Baum, D. A. 2007. Concordance trees, concordance factors, and the exploration of reticulate genealogy. Taxon 56: 417-426.

Ané, C., Larget, B., Baum, D. A., Smith, S. D., & Rokas, A. 2007. Bayesian estimation of concordance among gene trees. Molecular Biology and Evolution 24: 412-426

Sliwinski, M. K., White, M.A., Maizel, A., Weigel, D., and Baum, D. A. 2006. Evolutionary divergence of LFY function in the mustards Arabidopsis thaliana and Leavenworthia crassa. Plant Molecular Biology 62: 279-289.

DeWitt Smith, S. and Baum, D. A. 2006. Phylogenetics of the florally-diverse Andean clade Iochrominae (Solanaceae). American Journal of Botany 93: 1140-1153.

von Balthazar, M. Schönenberger, J. Alverson, W. S., Janka, H. Bayer, C., and Baum, D. A. 2006. Structure and evolution of the androecium in the Malvatheca clade (Malvaceae s.l.) and implications for Malvaceae and Malvales. Plant Systematics and Evolution 260:171-197.

Baum, D. A. and Hileman, L.C. 2006. A genetic model for the origin of flowers. Chap. 1 in “Flowering and its manipulation” (C. Ainsworth, ed.), Blackwell Publishing, Sheffield, UK.

Baum, D. A., DeWitt Smith, S., and Donovan, S. S. 2005. The tree thinking challenge. Science, 310: 979-980 (Perspectives).

Baum, D. A., Yoon, H. S., and Oldham, R. L. 2005. Molecular evolution of the transcription factor LEAFY in Brassicaceae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 37:1-14.

Howarth, D. G. and Baum, D. A. 2005. Genealogical evidence of homoploid hybrid speciation in an adaptive radiation of Scaevola (Goodeniaceae) in the Hawaiian islands. Evolution, 59: 948-961.

Nyffeler, R., Bayer C., Alverson, W. A., Yen, A., Whitlock, B. A., Chase M. W. and Baum, D. A. 2005. Phylogenetic analysis of the Malvadendrina clade (Malvaceae s.l.) based on plastid DNA sequences. Organisms Diversity and Evolution 5: 109-123.

Di Stilio, V., Kramer, E., and Baum, D. A. 2005. Floral MADS box genes and homeotic gender dimorphism in Thalictrum dioicum (Ranunculaceae), a new model for the study of dioecy. The Plant Journal 41:755-766.