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64
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168

Overview

Elena Conti is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work contributes significantly to several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Genetics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's principal topics of study include:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations

Recent significant publications by Elena Conti cover a range of topics in ecology, genetics, and evolutionary biology. These include:

  • "The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics," 2022, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "How genomics can help biodiversity conservation," 2023, Trends in Genetics
  • "Lipid exchanges drove the evolution of mutualism during plant terrestrialization," 2021, Science
  • "Supergene evolution via stepwise duplications and neofunctionalization of a floral-organ identity gene," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Comparative Genomics Elucidates the Origin of a Supergene Controlling Floral Heteromorphism," 2022, Molecular Biology and Evolution

Elena Conti frequently publishes in specific academic venues. The most frequent include:

  • New Phytologist
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Scientific Reports

Collaboration is an important aspect of their scientific work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Barbara Keller
  • Giacomo Potente
  • Emiliano Mora-Carrera
  • Narjes Yousefi
  • Péter Szövényi

Best Publications

  • Islands as model systems in ecology and evolution: prospects fifty years after MacArthur‐Wilson

    Ben H. Warren;Ben H. Warren;Ben H. Warren;Daniel Simberloff;Robert E. Ricklefs;Robin Aguilée

  • Acute limb ischemia in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia.

    Raffaello Bellosta;Luca Luzzani;Giuseppe Natalini;Matteo Alberto Pegorer

  • Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 as a Vascular Protective Factor

    Elena Conti;Cinzia Carrozza;Ettore Capoluongo;Massimo Volpe

  • Urticalean rosids: circumscription, rosid ancestry, and phylogenetics based on rbcL, trnL-F, and ndhF sequences

    Kenneth J. Sytsma;Jeffery Morawetz;J. Chris Pires;Molly Nepokroeff

  • Clades, Clocks, and Continents: Historical and Biogeographical Analysis of Myrtaceae, Vochysiaceae, and Relatives in the Southern Hemisphere

    Kenneth J. Sytsma;Amy Litt;Michelle L. Zjhra;J. Chris Pires

  • Evosystem services: an evolutionary perspective on the links between biodiversity and human well-being

    Daniel P Faith;Susana Magallón;Andrew P Hendry;Elena Conti

  • Lipid exchanges drove the evolution of mutualism during plant terrestrialization

    Mélanie K. Rich;Nicolas Vigneron;Cyril Libourel;Jean Keller

  • Circumscription of Myrtales and their relationships to other rosids: evidence from rbcL sequence data

    Elena Conti;Amy Litt;Amy Litt;Kenneth J. Sytsma;Kenneth J. Sytsma

  • EARLY TERTIARY OUT-OF-INDIA DISPERSAL OF CRYPTERONIACEAE: EVIDENCE FROM PHYLOGENY AND MOLECULAR DATING

    Elena Conti;Torsten Eriksson;Jürg Schönenberger;Kenneth J. Sytsma

  • MATK AND RBCL GENE SEQUENCE DATA INDICATE THAT SAXIFRAGA (SAXIFRAGACEAE) IS POLYPHYLETIC

    Douglas E. Soltis;Robert K. Kuzoff;Elena Conti;Richard Gornall

  • Interfamilial Relationships in Myrtales: Molecular Phylogeny and Patterns of Morphological Evolution

    Elena Conti;Amy Litt;Peter G. Wilson;Shirley A. Graham

  • Phylogenetic analysis informed by geological history supports multiple, sequential invasions of the Mediterranean Basin by the angiosperm family Araceae.

    Guilhem Mansion;Gideon Rosenbaum;Nicola Schoenenberger;Gianluigi Bacchetta

  • Nucleotide sequences of the rbcL gene indicate monophyly of mustard oil plants.

    J. Rodman;R. A. Price;K. Karol;E. Conti

  • Tribal relationships in Onagraceae: implications from rbcL sequence data.

    Elena Conti;Anthony Fischbach;Kenneth J. Sytsma

  • Phylogenetic Relationships in Primula L. and Related Genera (Primulaceae) Based on Noncoding Chloroplast DNA

    Austin R. Mast;Sylvia Kelso;A. John Richards;Daniela J. Lang

  • Markedly reduced insulin-like growth factor-1 in the acute phase of myocardial infarction.

    Elena Conti;Felicita Andreotti;Alessandro Sciahbasi;Patrizia Riccardi

  • Assessing calibration uncertainty in molecular dating: The assignment of fossils to alternative calibration points

    Frank Rutschmann;Torsten Eriksson;Kamariah Abu Salim;Elena Conti

  • Are any primroses (Primula) primitively monomorphic

    Austin R. Mast;Sylvia Kelso;Elena Conti

  • PHYLOGENY AND SYSTEMATICS OF THE RAUVOLFIOIDEAE (APOCYNACEAE) BASED ON MOLECULAR AND MORPHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE1

    André O. Simões;Tatyana Livshultz;Elena Conti;Mary E. Endress

  • Xanthan production by solid state fermentation

    Miroslav Stredansky;Elena Conti

Frequent Co-Authors

Massimo Volpe
Massimo Volpe Sapienza University of Rome
Kenneth J. Sytsma
Kenneth J. Sytsma University of Wisconsin–Madison
Filippo Crea
Filippo Crea Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Christophe F. Randin
Christophe F. Randin University of Lausanne
Nicolas Salamin
Nicolas Salamin University of Lausanne
José María Fernández-Palacios
José María Fernández-Palacios University of La Laguna
Gianluigi Bacchetta
Gianluigi Bacchetta University of Cagliari
Attilio Maseri
Attilio Maseri Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Jürg Schönenberger
Jürg Schönenberger University of Vienna
Aletta E. Schutte
Aletta E. Schutte University of New South Wales

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