Oscar Perez

Publications

• The Origin and Diversification of the Hyperdiverse Flora in the Chocó Biogeographic Region.
• Digest: Linking coordinated shifts in plant resource allocation to a chromosomal inversion.
• Phylogenomics and the rise of the angiosperms.
• The origin and speciation of orchids.
• Morphometrics and phylogenomics of coca (Erythroxylumspp.) illuminate its reticulate evolution, with implications for taxonomy
• Evolution and development of fruits of Erycina pusilla and other orchid species.
• People-inspired names remain valuable.
• Rtapas: An R Package to Assess Cophylogenetic Signal between Two Evolutionary Histories.
• Checklist of Orchidaceae from Caquetá, Colombia.
• Digest: Multiple factors influence mountain orchid diversity and distribution.
• Machine learning enhances prediction of plants as potential sources of antimalarials.
• Target sequence data shed new light on the infrafamilial classification of Araceae.
• Madagascar's extraordinary biodiversity: Threats and opportunities.
• Madagascar's extraordinary biodiversity: Evolution, distribution, and use.
• Botanical Monography in the Anthropocene.
• Whole plastomes are not enough: phylogenomic and morphometric exploration at multiple demographic levels of the bee orchid clade Ophrys sect. Sphegodes.
• Genome-wide macroevolutionary signatures of key innovations in butterflies colonizing new host plants.
• Archaeogenomics of a ~2,100-year-old Egyptian leaf provides a new timestamp on date palm domestication
• Hundreds of nuclear and plastid loci yield insights into orchid relationships
• Genome-wide macroevolutionary signatures of key innovations in butterflies colonizing new host plants
• Repetitive DNA Restructuring Across Multiple Nicotiana Allopolyploidisation Events Shows a Lack of Strong Cytoplasmic Bias in Influencing Repeat Turnover.
• Introgression across evolutionary scales suggests reticulation contributes to Amazonian tree diversity
• A highly contiguous, scaffold-level nuclear genome assembly for the fever tree (Cinchona pubescens Vahl) as a novel resource for Rubiaceae research.
• Diversification dynamics in the Neotropics through time, clades, and biogeographic regions.
• Genome Sequencing of up to 6,000-Year-Old Citrullus Seeds Reveals Use of a Bitter-Fleshed Species Prior to Watermelon Domestication.
• Revised Species Delimitation in the Giant Water Lily Genus Victoria (Nymphaeaceae) Confirms a New Species and Has Implications for Its Conservation.
• Understanding climate change impacts on biome and plant distributions in the Andes: Challenges and opportunities.
• Rtapas: An R package to assess cophylogenetic signal between two evolutionary histories
• A highly contiguous, scaffold-level nuclear genome assembly for the Fever tree (Cinchona pubescens Vahl) as a novel resource for research in the Rubiaceae
• Genome-wide transcriptome signatures of ant-farmed Squamellaria epiphytes reveal key functions in a unique symbiosis.
• Molecular Clocks and Archeogenomics of a Late Period Egyptian Date Palm Leaf Reveal Introgression from Wild Relatives and Add Timestamps on the Domestication.
• Plastome Evolution in the Hyperdiverse Genus Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae) Using Phylogenomic and Comparative Analyses: Large-Scale Expansion and Contraction of the Inverted Repeat Region.
• A nuclear phylogenomic study of the angiosperm order Myrtales, exploring the potential and limitations of the universal Angiosperms353 probe set.
• Hundreds of nuclear and plastid loci yield novel insights into orchid relationships.
• Author Correction: Plastid phylogenomics resolves ambiguous relationships within the orchid family and provides a solid timeframe for biogeography and macroevolution.
• A chromosome-level genome of a Kordofan melon illuminates the origin of domesticated watermelons.
• Plastid phylogenomics resolves ambiguous relationships within the orchid family and provides a solid timeframe for biogeography and macroevolution.
• The Origins and Drivers of Neotropical Diversity
• Random Tanglegram Partitions (Random TaPas): An Alexandrian Approach to the Cophylogenetic Gordian Knot.
• Introgression across evolutionary scales suggests reticulation contributes to Amazonian tree diversity.
• An ancient tropical origin, dispersals via land bridges and Miocene diversification explain the subcosmopolitan disjunctions of the liverwort genus Lejeunea.
• Untapped resources for medical research.
• Resolving relationships in an exceedingly young Neotropical orchid lineage using Genotyping-by-sequencing data.
• Phylogenetic comparative methods improve the selection of characters for generic delimitations in a hyperdiverse Neotropical orchid clade.
• Plastid phylogenomics resolves ambiguous relationships within the orchid family and provides a solid timeframe for biogeography and macroevolution
• A 3500-year-old leaf from a Pharaonic tomb reveals that New Kingdom Egyptians were cultivating domesticated watermelon
• Random Tanglegram Partitions (Random TaPas): An Alexandrian Approach to the Cophylogenetic Gordian Knot
• Resolving relationships in an exceedingly young orchid lineage using Genotyping-by-sequencing data
• Anchored hybrid enrichment generated nuclear, plastid and mitochondrial markers resolve the Lepanthes horrida (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) species complex.
• From tree tops to the ground: Reversals to terrestrial habit in Galeandra orchids (Epidendroideae: Catasetinae).
• Is Amazonia a 'museum' for Neotropical trees? The evolution of the Brownea clade (Detarioideae, Leguminosae).
• A roadmap for global synthesis of the plant tree of life.
• Mining threatens Colombian ecosystems.
• Digest: Shape-shifting in Solanaceae flowers: The influence of pollinators.
• Digest: Drivers of coral diversification in a major marine biodiversity hotspot.
• From tree tops to the ground: reversals to terrestrial habit inGaleandraorchids (Epidendroideae: Catasetinae)
• Multiple Geographical Origins of Environmental Sex Determination enhanced the diversification of Darwin's Favourite Orchids.
• Multiple Geographical Origins of Environmental Sex Determination enhanced the diversification of Darwin’s Favourite Orchids
• Andean Mountain Building Did not Preclude Dispersal of Lowland Epiphytic Orchids in the Neotropics.
• Recent origin and rapid speciation of Neotropical orchids in the world's richest plant biodiversity hotspot.
• The Improbable Journeys of Epiphytic Plants Across The Andes: Historical Biogeography of Cycnoches (Catasetinae, Orchidaceae)
• Recent origin of Neotropical orchids in the world’s richest plant biodiversity hotspot
• Geographical structure, narrow species ranges, and Cenozoic diversification in a pantropical clade of epiphyllous leafy liverworts.
• Sex and the Catasetinae (Darwin's favourite orchids).
• Rumbling Orchids: How To Assess Divergent Evolution Between Chloroplast Endosymbionts and the Nuclear Host.
• A New Species of Lepanthes (Pleurothallidinae, Orchidaceae) from Colombia