Plant Evolutionary Morphology
When you examine morphological variation across major groups of life, it is clear that plants exhibit a disproportionally greater number of forms. The remarkable amount of variation represents millions of years of adaptation to environmental variation, function, and pollination. Our lab is interested in understanding the evolutionary processes that have generated such a remarkable amount of morphological forms in plants. We apply a macroevolutionary approach that takes advantage of traditional anatomy and morphology methods, phylogenetic comparative methods, ecology, and genomics to better understand how forms have evolved through time. Below, we outline a subset of our research that typifies our approach to study plant evolutionary morphology.
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Staminode Evolution
Staminodes are infertile stamen that either evolve a secondary function or are rudimentary structures. We have been fascinated by the evolution of these structures, especially when they represent functional cooption. We have been studying staminode evolution across angiosperms to determine how they arise and develop in various groups, and have been interested in investigating common evolutionary transitions in staminodes across clades.
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