Phylogenetics and Phylogeography in a Gypsum Endemic Clade: Haploësthes and Sartwellia
Location
Science Center, A209
Document Type
Presentation
Start Date
4-27-2012 2:45 PM
End Date
4-27-2012 3:45 PM
Abstract
My research is part of a larger project studying plants only found on gypsum (CaSO4·2H2O) soils in the Chihuahuan Desert of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico. Specifically, my project focuses on gypsum endemism within the subtribe Flaveriinae (Asteraceae, or sunflower family), which forms a small group of three genera: Flaveria, Haploësthes, and Sartwellia. My work has revealed much geographic structure to genetic diversity within Flaveriinae and a single origin of gypsum endemism in Sartwellia and Haploësthes.
Recommended Citation
Plumb, Rachel, "Phylogenetics and Phylogeography in a Gypsum Endemic Clade: Haploësthes and Sartwellia" (04/27/12). Senior Symposium. 38.
https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/seniorsymp/2012/presentations/38
Major
Biology; History
Advisor(s)
Keith Tarvin, Biology
Leonard Smith, History
Project Mentor(s)
Michael Moore, Biology
April 2012
Phylogenetics and Phylogeography in a Gypsum Endemic Clade: Haploësthes and Sartwellia
Science Center, A209
My research is part of a larger project studying plants only found on gypsum (CaSO4·2H2O) soils in the Chihuahuan Desert of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico. Specifically, my project focuses on gypsum endemism within the subtribe Flaveriinae (Asteraceae, or sunflower family), which forms a small group of three genera: Flaveria, Haploësthes, and Sartwellia. My work has revealed much geographic structure to genetic diversity within Flaveriinae and a single origin of gypsum endemism in Sartwellia and Haploësthes.
Notes
Session II, Panel 5: Family Trees: Studies of Origins in Flora and Fauna
Moderator: Keith Tarvin, Associate Professor of Biology