Event Title

Phylogenetics and Phylogeography in a Gypsum Endemic Clade: Haploësthes and Sartwellia

Presenter Information

Rachel Plumb

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.

Notes

Session II, Panel 5: Family Trees: Studies of Origins in Flora and Fauna
Moderator: Keith Tarvin, Associate Professor of Biology

Major

Biology; History

Advisor(s)

Keith Tarvin, Biology
Leonard Smith, History

Project Mentor(s)

Michael Moore, Biology

April 2012

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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.