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Bruce G. Baldwin is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on several interconnected fields within agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. This work spans various specializations including ecology, evolution, behavior, systematics, plant science, molecular biology, nature and landscape conservation, and aspects of cancer research.

Their research topics cover a wide range of studies related to botany, ecology, taxonomy, and plant diversity and evolution. Other areas of investigation include ecology and vegetation dynamics, plant and animal interactions, sesquiterpenes and Asteraceae studies, plant toxicity and pharmacological properties, as well as genetic diversity and population structure.

Bruce G. Baldwin has published frequently in several scientific venues. Notable venues with multiple publications include Madroño, Systematic Botany, Taxon, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Journal of Botany.

Their body of recent published papers includes the following:

  • The classification of the Compositae: A tribute to Vicki Ann Funk (1947-2019), 2020, Taxon
  • Evolutionary genomics of oceanic island radiations, 2023, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Vascular plant extinction in the continental United States and Canada, 2020, Conservation Biology
  • Natural selection maintains species despite frequent hybridization in the desert shrub Encelia, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Revisiting the hyperdominance of Neotropical tree species under a taxonomic, functional and evolutionary perspective, 2021, Scientific Reports

Among frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Bruce G. Baldwin are Isaac H. Lichter-Marck, Susan Fawcett, José Maurício Bonifacino, Jennifer R. Mandel, and Wesley M. Knapp. These collaborations reflect ongoing research efforts in related fields of study and contribute to the breadth of Baldwin's scientific contributions.

Best Publications

  • The {ITS} region of nuclear ribosomal {DNA}: {A} valuable source of evidence on angiosperm phylogeny

    Bruce G. Baldwin;Michael J. Sanderson;J. Mark Porter;Martin F. Wojciechowski

  • Phylogenetic utility of the internal transcribed spacers of nuclear ribosomal DNA in plants: an example from the compositae.

    Bruce G. Baldwin

  • Phylogenetic utility of the external transcribed spacer (ETS) of 18S-26S rDNA: congruence of ETS and ITS trees of Calycadenia (Compositae).

    Bruce G. Baldwin;Staci Markos

  • Age and rate of diversification of the Hawaiian silversword alliance (Compositae).

    Bruce G. Baldwin;Michael J. Sanderson

  • Long-distance dispersal: A framework for hypothesis testing

    Rosemary G. Gillespie;Bruce G. Baldwin;Jonathan M. Waters;Ceridwen I. Fraser

  • Erratum: The ITS region of nuclear ribosomal DNA: A valuable source of evidence on angiosperm phylogeny (Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (1995) 82 (247-277))

    B. G. Baldwin;M. J. Sanderson;J. M. Porter;M. F. Wojciechowski

  • Everywhere but Antarctica: using a supertree to understand the diversity and distribution of the Compositae.

    V. A. Funk;R.J. Bayer;S. Keeley;R. Chan

  • Molecular phylogenetics of Calycadenia (Compositae) based on its sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA: chromosomal and morphological evolution reexamined

    Bruce G. Baldwin

  • Persistent nuclear ribosomal DNA sequence polymorphism in the Amelanchier agamic complex (Rosaceae).

    Christopher S. Campbell;Martin F. Wojciechowski;Bruce G. Baldwin;Lawrence A. Alice

  • MONOPHYLY OF ANEUPLOID ASTRAGALUS (FABACEAE): EVIDENCE FROM NUCLEAR RIBOSOMAL DNA INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER SEQUENCES

    Martin F. Wojciechowski;Michael J. Sanderson;Bruce G. Baldwin;Michael J. Donoghue

  • Comparative analysis of late floral development and mating-system evolution in tribe Collinsieae (Scrophulariaceae s.l.)

    W. Scott Armbruster;W. Scott Armbruster;Christa P. H. Mulder;Bruce G. Baldwin;Susan Kalisz

  • Interspecific hybrid ancestry of a plant adaptive radiation: allopolyploidy of the Hawaiian silversword alliance (Asteraceae) inferred from floral homeotic gene duplications.

    M Barrier;B G Baldwin;R H Robichaux;M D Purugganan

  • Chloroplast DNA evidence for a North American origin of the Hawaiian silversword alliance (Asteraceae).

    Bruce G. Baldwin;Donald W. Kyhos;Jan Dvorak;Gerald D. Carr

  • Phylogeny and biogeography of the sandalwoods (Santalum, Santalaceae): repeated dispersals throughout the Pacific.

    Danica T. Harbaugh;Bruce G. Baldwin

  • Switch from specialized to generalized pollination

    W. Scott Armbruster;Bruce G. Baldwin

  • Higher-Level Relationships and Major Lineages of Lessingia (Compositae, Astereae) Based on Nuclear rDNA Internal and External Transcribed Spacer (ITS and ETS) Sequences

    Staci Markos;Bruce G. Baldwin

  • Phylogeny of the Coneflowers and Relatives (Heliantheae: Asteraceae) Based on Nuclear rDNA Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) Sequences and Chlorplast DNA Restriction Site Data

    Lowell E. Urbatsch;Bruce G. Baldwin;Michael J. Donoghue

  • Unequal Evolutionary Rates Between Annual and Perennial Lineages of Checker Mallows (Sidalcea, Malvaceae): Evidence from 18S–26S rDNA Internal and External Transcribed Spacers

    Katarina Andreasen;Bruce G. Baldwin

  • Phylogenetic relationships in Maloideae (Rosaceae): evidence from sequences of the internal transcribed spacers of nuclear ribosomal DNA and its congruence with morphology

    Christopher S. Campbell;Michael J. Donoghue;Bruce G. Baldwin;Martin F. Wojciechowski

  • Historical Biogeography and Ecology of the Hawaiian Silversword Alliance (Asteraceae): New Molecular Phylogenetic Perspectives

    Bruce G. Baldwin;Robert H. Robichaux;Warren L. Wagner;V. A. Funk

Frequent Co-Authors

W. Scott Armbruster
W. Scott Armbruster University of Portsmouth
David D. Ackerly
David D. Ackerly University of California, Berkeley
Michael J. Donoghue
Michael J. Donoghue Yale University
Martin F. Wojciechowski
Martin F. Wojciechowski Arizona State University
Brent D. Mishler
Brent D. Mishler University of California, Berkeley
Michael J. Sanderson
Michael J. Sanderson University of Arizona
Tod F. Stuessy
Tod F. Stuessy The Ohio State University
Susan Kalisz
Susan Kalisz University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Rosemary G. Gillespie
Rosemary G. Gillespie University of California, Berkeley
Richard G. Olmstead
Richard G. Olmstead University of Washington

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