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A. Jonathan Shaw

A. Jonathan Shaw

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Ecology and Evolution

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64
Citations
15018
World Ranking
1867
National Ranking
685

Overview

A. Jonathan Shaw is a researcher affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their body of work spans across numerous fields, primarily within Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. The extensive research output includes a significant focus on subfields such as Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Genetics.

The scientist's research topics encompass a wide range of areas related to ecosystems and plant biology. Key topics include:

  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Bryophyte Studies and Records
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Lichen and fungal ecology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Among the frequent venues for publication are:

  • New Phytologist
  • American Journal of Botany
  • The Bryologist
  • Annals of Botany
  • Global Change Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Shaw include:

  • David J. Weston
  • Blanka Aguero
  • Aaron M. Duffy
  • Kristian Hassel
  • Bryan Piatkowski

Selected recent publications demonstrate the scope of Shaw's research and include:

  • Extensive Genome-Wide Phylogenetic Discordance Is Due to Incomplete Lineage Sorting and Not Ongoing Introgression in a Rapidly Radiated Bryophyte Genus, 2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Newly identified sex chromosomes in the Sphagnum (peat moss) genome alter carbon sequestration and ecosystem dynamics, 2023, Nature Plants
  • Novel metabolic interactions and environmental conditions mediate the boreal peatmoss-cyanobacteria mutualism, 2021, The ISME Journal
  • Defining the Sphagnum Core Microbiome across the North American Continent Reveals a Central Role for Diazotrophic Methanotrophs in the Nitrogen and Carbon Cycles of Boreal Peatland Ecosystems, 2022, mBio
  • Habitat-adapted microbial communities mediate Sphagnum peatmoss resilience to warming, 2022, New Phytologist

Best Publications

  • Phylotranscriptomic analysis of the origin and early diversification of land plants

    Norman J. Wickett;Siavash Mirarab;Nam Nguyen;Tandy Warnow

  • HybPiper: Extracting coding sequence and introns for phylogenetics from high-throughput sequencing reads using target enrichment.

    Matthew G. Johnson;Elliot M. Gardner;Yang Liu;Rafael Medina

  • Bryophyte Biology: Morphology, anatomy, and classification of the Bryophyta

    William R. Buck;A. Jonathan Shaw

  • Biogeographic patterns and cryptic speciation in bryophytes

    A. Jonathan Shaw

  • Bryophyte diversity and evolution: Windows into the early evolution of land plants

    A. Jonathan Shaw;Péter Szövényi;Blanka Shaw

  • Extant diversity of bryophytes emerged from successive post-Mesozoic diversification bursts

    B. Laenen;B. Laenen;B. Shaw;H. Schneider;B. Goffinet

  • Bryophyte phylogeny : Advancing the molecular and morphological frontiers

    Karen S. Renzaglia;Scott Schuette;R. Joel Duff;Roberto Ligrone

  • Horizontal transfer of an adaptive chimeric photoreceptor from bryophytes to ferns

    Fay-Wei Li;Juan Carlos Villarreal;Steven Kelly;Carl J. Rothfels

  • Endophytic Xylaria (Xylariaceae) among liverworts and angiosperms: phylogenetics, distribution, and symbiosis

    E. Christine Davis;Joseph B. Franklin;A. Jonathan Shaw;Rytas Vilgalys

  • Resolution of the ordinal phylogeny of mosses using targeted exons from organellar and nuclear genomes.

    Yang Liu;Matthew G. Johnson;Cymon J. Cox;Rafael Medina

  • Phylogeographic structure and cryptic speciation in the trans-Antarctic moss Pyrrhobryum mnioides.

    Stuart F. McDaniel;A. Jonathan Shaw

  • The Sphagnum microbiome: new insights from an ancient plant lineage.

    Joel E. Kostka;David J. Weston;Jennifer B. Glass;Erik A. Lilleskov

  • Testing Morphological Concepts of Orders of Pleurocarpous Mosses (Bryophyta) Using Phylogenetic Reconstructions Based on TRNL-TRNF and RPS4 Sequences

    W R Buck;B Goffinet;B Goffinet;A J Shaw

  • Polarity of peatmoss (Sphagnum) evolution: who says bryophytes have no roots?

    A. Jonathan Shaw;Cymon J. Cox;Sandra B. Boles

  • A Linkage Map Reveals a Complex Basis for Segregation Distortion in an Interpopulation Cross in the Moss Ceratodon purpureus

    Stuart F. McDaniel;John H. Willis;A. Jonathan Shaw

  • Phylogeny of the Sphagnopsida Based on Chloroplast and Nuclear DNA Sequences

    A. Jonathan Shaw

  • Molecular phylogeography and cryptic speciation in the mosses, Mielichhoferia elongata and M. mielichhoferiana (Bryaceae)

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  • Phylogenetic evidence of a rapid radiation of pleurocarpous mosses (Bryophyta).

    A. J. Shaw;C. J. Cox;B. Goffinet;W. R. Buck

  • Bryophyte Biology: List of contributors

    Bernard Goffinet;A. Jonathan Shaw

  • Extensive Genome-Wide Phylogenetic Discordance Is Due to Incomplete Lineage Sorting and Not Ongoing Introgression in a Rapidly Radiated Bryophyte Genus.

    Olena Meleshko;Michael D Martin;Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen;Christian Schröck

  • One species or at least eight? Delimitation and distribution of Frullania tamarisci (L.) Dumort. s. l. (Jungermanniopsida, Porellales) inferred from nuclear and chloroplast DNA markers.

    Jochen Heinrichs;Jörn Hentschel;Jörn Hentschel;Andrea Bombosch;Anja Fiebig

  • Phylogenetic Relationships among the Mosses Based on Heterogeneous Bayesian Analysis of Multiple Genes from Multiple Genomic Compartments

    Cymon J. Cox;Bernard Goffinet;A. Jonathan Shaw;Sandra B. Boles

  • The Bryophyta (Mosses): Systematic and Evolutionary Inferences from an rps4 Gene (cpDNA) Phylogeny

    Bernard Goffinet;Cymon J. Cox;A.Jonathan Shaw;Terry A.J. Hedderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard Goffinet
Bernard Goffinet University of Connecticut
Cymon J. Cox
Cymon J. Cox University of Algarve
Alain Vanderpoorten
Alain Vanderpoorten University of Liège
Norman J. Wickett
Norman J. Wickett University of Vienna
Jairo Patiño
Jairo Patiño Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología
Jochen Heinrichs
Jochen Heinrichs Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
S. Robbert Gradstein
S. Robbert Gradstein University of Göttingen
Douglas E. Soltis
Douglas E. Soltis University of Florida
Jeremy Schmutz
Jeremy Schmutz Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Gane Ka-Shu Wong
Gane Ka-Shu Wong University of Alberta

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