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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
75
Citations
19922
World Ranking
539
National Ranking
162

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Botany
  • Genus
  • Gene

His primary areas of investigation include Botany, Evolutionary biology, Phylogenetic tree, Phylogenetics and Genetics. His Botany study incorporates themes from Sister group and Austrobaileyales. Dennis W. Stevenson has included themes like Systematics, Nonsynonymous substitution, Mitochondrial DNA and Gene family in his Evolutionary biology study.

The study incorporates disciplines such as Genome and Plant evolution in addition to Phylogenetic tree. His studies deal with areas such as Terrestrial plant, Biological evolution, Cycas micronesica and Fern as well as Phylogenetics. As part of one scientific family, Dennis W. Stevenson deals mainly with the area of Genetics, narrowing it down to issues related to the Computational biology, and often Comparative genomics, Annotation and Genome project.

His most cited work include:

  • Phylotranscriptomic analysis of the origin and early diversification of land plants (767 citations)
  • Data access for the 1,000 Plants (1KP) project. (398 citations)
  • A comparison of algorithms for the identification of specimens using DNA barcodes: examples from gymnosperms (315 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Dennis W. Stevenson focuses on Botany, Evolutionary biology, Phylogenetics, Zamiaceae and Genetics. Cycad, Zamia, Taxonomy, Strobilus and Taxon are the subjects of his Botany studies. His Evolutionary biology study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Subfamily, Clade, Fern and Molecular phylogenetics.

His studies in Phylogenetics integrate themes in fields like Genome, Mitochondrial DNA and Phylogenetic tree. The study incorporates disciplines such as Systematics and Plant evolution in addition to Phylogenetic tree. Dennis W. Stevenson interconnects Zoology, Cladistics and Encephalartos in the investigation of issues within Zamiaceae.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Botany (44.49%)
  • Evolutionary biology (18.22%)
  • Phylogenetics (17.80%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2014-2021)?

  • Botany (44.49%)
  • Evolutionary biology (18.22%)
  • Phylogenetics (17.80%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Dennis W. Stevenson mainly investigates Botany, Evolutionary biology, Phylogenetics, Zamiaceae and Ecology. When carried out as part of a general Botany research project, his work on Cycad, Strobilus and Pollination is frequently linked to work in Branching and Laboratory research, therefore connecting diverse disciplines of study. His work deals with themes such as Phylogenomics, Clade, Monophyly, Subfamily and Nuclear gene, which intersect with Evolutionary biology.

His Phylogenetics research incorporates themes from Physcomitrella, Extensin, Synteny and Phylogenetic tree. His Phylogenetic tree research is under the purview of Genetics. His work carried out in the field of Ecology brings together such families of science as Campynemataceae and Symbiosis.

Between 2014 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Algal ancestor of land plants was preadapted for symbiosis (177 citations)
  • The Physcomitrella patens chromosome-scale assembly reveals moss genome structure and evolution. (156 citations)
  • Plastid genomes reveal support for deep phylogenetic relationships and extensive rate variation among palms and other commelinid monocots. (100 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Botany
  • Genus
  • Gene

His scientific interests lie mostly in Phylogenetics, Phylogenetic tree, Genetics, Evolutionary biology and Phylogenomics. His Phylogenetics research incorporates elements of Botany, Fern, Arabidopsis, Physcomitrella and Plant evolution. Many of his research projects under Botany are closely connected to Heterologous expression with Heterologous expression, tying the diverse disciplines of science together.

His Phylogenetic tree research includes elements of Strigolactone, Outgroup, Karrikin and Nuclear gene. His studies deal with areas such as Sister group, Chromosome, Transposable element and Physcomitrella patens as well as Evolutionary biology. In his study, Thismiaceae, Nymphaeales, Lemnoideae, Molecular phylogenetics and Hydatellaceae is inextricably linked to Arecales, which falls within the broad field of Phylogenomics.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Data access for the 1,000 Plants (1KP) project.

    Naim Matasci;Ling Hong Hung;Zhixiang Yan;Eric J. Carpenter

  • The Physcomitrella patens chromosome-scale assembly reveals moss genome structure and evolution.

    Daniel Lang;Kristian K. Ullrich;Florent Murat;Joerg Fuchs

  • A genome triplication associated with early diversification of the core eudicots

    Yuannian Jiao;Jim Leebens-Mack;Saravanaraj Ayyampalayam;John E. Bowers

  • A reevaluation of seed plant phylogeny.

    Kevin C Nixon;William L. Crepet;Dennis Stevenson;Else Marie Friis

  • Algal ancestor of land plants was preadapted for symbiosis

    Pierre-Marc Delaux;Pierre-Marc Delaux;Guru V. Radhakrishnan;Dhileepkumar Jayaraman;Jitender Cheema

  • A comparison of algorithms for the identification of specimens using DNA barcodes: examples from gymnosperms

    Damon P. Little;Dennis Wm. Stevenson

  • Plant Anatomy: An Applied Approach

    D. F. Cutler;C. E. J. Botha;Dennis Wm. Stevenson

  • Flowering plants of the neotropics.

    N. Smith;S. A. Mori;A. Henderson;D. W. Stevenson

  • Multigene Analyses of Monocot Relationships

    Mark W. Chase;Michael F. Fay;Dion S. Devey;Oliver Maurin

  • Assembling the tree of the monocotyledons: plastome sequence phylogeny and evolution of Poales.

    Thomas J. Givnish;Mercedes Ames;Joel R. McNeal;Michael R. McKain

  • Monocot plastid phylogenomics, timeline, net rates of species diversification, the power of multi-gene analyses, and a functional model for the origin of monocots.

    Thomas J. Givnish;Alejandro Zuluaga;Daniel Spalink;Marybel Soto Gomez

  • Evaluating methods for isolating total RNA and predicting the success of sequencing phylogenetically diverse plant transcriptomes.

    Marc T.J. Johnson;Eric J. Carpenter;Zhijian Tian;Richard Bruskiewich

  • A Phylogeny of the Monocots, as Inferred from rbcL and atpA Sequence Variation, and a Comparison of Methods for Calculating Jackknife and Bootstrap Values

    Jerrold I. Davis;Dennis W. Stevenson;Gitte Petersen;Ole Seberg

  • Dynamic genome evolution in a model fern

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  • Mapping the biosphere: exploring species to understand the origin, organization and sustainability of biodiversity

    Q. D. Wheeler;Sandra Knapp;D. W. Stevenson;J. Stevenson

  • Plastid genomes reveal support for deep phylogenetic relationships and extensive rate variation among palms and other commelinid monocots.

    Craig F. Barrett;Craig F. Barrett;William J. Baker;Jason R. Comer;John G. Conran

  • Cycads: evolutionary innovations and the role of plant-derived neurotoxins.

    Eric D Brenner;Dennis W Stevenson;Richard W Twigg

  • The evolutionary history of ferns inferred from 25 low-copy nuclear genes

    Carl J. Rothfels;Fay Wei Li;Erin M. Sigel;Layne Huiet

  • Phytochrome diversity in green plants and the origin of canonical plant phytochromes

    Fay Wei Li;Michael Melkonian;Carl J. Rothfels;Juan Carlos Villarreal

  • The Planteome database:: an integrated resource for reference ontologies, plant genomics and phenomics

    Laurel Cooper;Austin Meier;Marie-Angélique Laporte;Justin L Elser

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

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

  • Cladistics of the Magnoliidae

    Henry Loconte;Dennis W. Stevenson

  • The Plant Ontology as a Tool for Comparative Plant Anatomy and Genomic Analyses

    Laurel Cooper;Ramona L. Walls;Justin Elser;María A. Gandolfo

  • A functional phylogenomic view of the seed plants

    Ernest K. Lee;Angelica Cibrian-Jaramillo;Angelica Cibrian-Jaramillo;Angelica Cibrian-Jaramillo;Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis;Manpreet S Katari

  • Cladistics of the Spermatophyta

    Henry Loconte;Dennis W. Stevenson

  • The Role of Beetles in the Pollination of Zamia furfuracea L. fil. (Zamiaceae)

    Knut J. Norstog;Dennis Wm. Stevenson;Karl J. Niklas

  • Morphology of Hydatellaceae, an anomalous aquatic family recently recognized as an early-divergent angiosperm lineage

    Paula J. Rudall;Dmitry D. Sokoloff;Margarita V. Remizowa;John G. Conran

  • Flowering Plants of the Neotropics

    Rudolf Schmid;Nathan Smith;Scott A. Mori;Andrew Henderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Sean W. Graham
Sean W. Graham University of British Columbia
Gane Ka-Shu Wong
Gane Ka-Shu Wong University of Alberta
Jerrold I. Davis
Jerrold I. Davis Cornell University
Jim Leebens-Mack
Jim Leebens-Mack University of Georgia
Chelsea D. Specht
Chelsea D. Specht Cornell University
J. Chris Pires
J. Chris Pires Colorado State University
Douglas E. Soltis
Douglas E. Soltis University of Florida
Javier Francisco-Ortega
Javier Francisco-Ortega Florida International University
Michael Melkonian
Michael Melkonian Max Planck Society
Mark W. Chase
Mark W. Chase Royal Botanic Gardens

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