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List of works by David Alastair Baum

A Review of Chromosome Numbers in Bombacaceae with New Counts for Adansonia

scientific article (publication date: February 1994)

An assessment of transgenomics as a tool for identifying genes involved in the evolutionary differentiation of closely related plant species

scientific article published on 11 November 2011

An exploration of LEAFY expression in independent evolutionary origins of rosette flowering in Brassicaceae

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An inside-out origin for the eukaryotic cell

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Are spurred cyathia a key innovation? Molecular systematics and trait evolution in the slipper spurges (Pedilanthus clade: Euphorbia, Euphorbiaceae)

scientific article published on 19 February 2010

Circumscription of the Malvales and relationships to other rosidae: evidence from rbcL sequence data

scientific article published on June 1, 1998

Clade-specific positive selection on a developmental gene: BRANCHLESS TRICHOME and the evolution of stellate trichomes in Physaria (Brassicaceae).

scientific article published on 22 March 2016

Evolution of GCYC, a Gesneriaceae homolog of CYCLOIDEA, within Gesnerioideae (Gesneriaceae).

scientific article published in May 2004

Evolution. The tree-thinking challenge

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

Evolutionary divergence of LFY function in the mustards Arabidopsis thaliana and Leavenworthia crassa.

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Floral Gigantism in Rafflesiaceae

scientific article (publication date: 30 March 2007)

Floral MADS box genes and homeotic gender dimorphism in Thalictrum dioicum (Ranunculaceae) - a new model for the study of dioecy.

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Individuality and the existence of species through time.

scientific article published on December 1998

Is LEAFY a useful marker gene for the flower-inflorescence boundary in the Euphorbia cyathium?

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LEAFY and the evolution of rosette flowering in violet cress (Jonopsidium acaule, Brassicaceae).

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Life's Late Digital Revolution and Why It Matters for the Study of the Origins of Life

scientific article published on 25 August 2017

Long-term morphological stasis maintained by a plant-pollinator mutualism

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2014)

Molecular evolution of the transcription factor LEAFY in Brassicaceae

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Phylogenetic Relationships and Floral Evolution of the Byttnerioideae ("Sterculiaceae" or Malvaceae s.l.) Based on Sequences of the Chloroplast Gene, ndhF

scientific article published in 2001

Phylogenetic relationships of Malvatheca (Bombacoideae and Malvoideae; Malvaceae sensu lato) as inferred from plastid DNA sequences

scientific article (publication date: November 2004)

Phylogenetic relationships of North American Antirrhinum (Veronicaceae)

scientific article (publication date: June 2004)

Phylogenetic species concepts

scientific article published on 01 January 1992

Phylogenetic utility of a nuclear intron from nitrate reductase for the study of closely related plant species.

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Phylogenetics of the florally diverse Andean clade Iochrominae (Solanaceae)

scientific article published on August 1, 2006

Phylogenetics of the genus Scaevola (Goodeniaceae): implication for dispersal patterns across the Pacific Basin and colonization of the Hawaiian Islands.

scientific article published on June 2003

Phylogeny of the core Malvales: evidence from ndhF sequence data.

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Possible contributions of TERMINAL FLOWER 1 to the evolution of rosette flowering in Leavenworthia (Brassicaceae).

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Precise spatio-temporal regulation of the anthocyanin biosynthetic pathway leads to petal spot formation in Clarkia gracilis (Onagraceae).

scientific article published on 10 December 2012

Species and phylogenetic nomenclature

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Species as ranked taxa

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The Caribbean slipper spurge Euphorbia tithymaloides: the first example of a ring species in plants

scientific article (publication date: 13 June 2012)

The Origin of Primary Plastids: A Pas de Deux or a Ménage à Trois?

scientific article published on January 31, 2013

The Prebiotic Kitchen: A Guide to Composing Prebiotic Soup Recipes to Test Origins of Life Hypotheses

scientific article published in 2021

The need for molecular genetic perspectives in evolutionary education (and vice versa).

scientific article published on 2 October 2009

The origin and early evolution of life in chemical composition space

scientific article published on 12 August 2018

The podostemad puzzle: the evolution of unusual morphology in the Podostemaceae

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The role of pollinator shifts in the floral diversification of Iochroma (Solanaceae).

scientific article published on 14 January 2008

The role of two LEAFY paralogs from Idahoa scapigera (Brassicaceae) in the evolution of a derived plant architecture

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Transgenic study of parallelism in plant morphological evolution.

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Why Do Paralogs Persist? Molecular Evolution of CYCLOIDEA and Related Floral Symmetry Genes in Antirrhineae (Veronicaceae)

scientific article published in April 2003

rbcL and seed-plant phylogeny

scientific article published on 01 February 1994