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Overview

Kevin C. Nixon is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research across biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields, particularly molecular biology, oncology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, genetics, and cell biology.

Key research topics associated with Nixon include plant diversity and evolution, plant and animal studies, lung cancer research studies, plant and fungal species descriptions, DNA repair mechanisms, proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research, and glycosylation and glycoproteins research.

Selected recent publications illustrate the diversity and scope of their scientific contributions:

  • Paleoaltingia gen. nov., a new genus of Altingiaceae from the Late Cretaceous of New Jersey, 2021, American Journal of Botany
  • Excessive transcription-replication conflicts are a vulnerability of BRCA1-mutant cancers, 2023, Nucleic Acids Research
  • RNF8 ubiquitylation of XRN2 facilitates R-loop resolution and restrains genomic instability in BRCA1 mutant cells, 2023, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Extracellular Heparan 6-O-Endosulfatases SULF1 and SULF2 in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Other Malignancies, 2022, Cancers
  • 52 million years old Eucalyptus flower sheds more than pollen grains, 2020, American Journal of Botany

Nixon has collaborated with several frequent coauthors, including Razqallah Hakem, Laurie Ailles, Benjamin H. Lok, Parasvi S. Patel, and Housheng Hansen He, indicating ongoing research partnerships across multiple disciplines.

The scientist's work has been published in various venues, with multiple contributions to the American Journal of Botany, Nucleic Acids Research, International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Cancers.

Best Publications

  • TNT, a free program for phylogenetic analysis

    Pablo Augusto Goloboff;James S. Farris;Kevin Clark Nixon

  • Angiosperm phylogeny inferred from 18S rDNA, rbcL, and atpB sequences

    Douglas E. Soltis;Pamela S. Soltis;Mark W. Chase;Mark E. Mort

  • An amplification of the phylogenetic species concept

    Kevin C. Nixon;Quentin D. Wheeler

  • Populations, Genetic Variation, and the Delimitation of Phylogenetic Species

    Jerrold I. Davis;Kevin C. Nixon

  • Phylogeny, Biogeography, and Processes of Molecular Differentiation in Quercus Subgenus Quercus (Fagaceae)

    Paul S. Manos;Jeff J. Doyle;Kevin C. Nixon

  • Infrageneric classification of Quercus (Fagaceae) and typification of sectional names

    KC Nixon

  • A reevaluation of seed plant phylogeny.

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

  • Fossil evidence and phylogeny: the age of major angiosperm clades based on mesofossil and macrofossil evidence from Cretaceous deposits.

    William L. Crepet;Kevin C. Nixon;Maria A. Gandolfo

  • The genus Quercus in Mexico.

    K. C. Nixon;T.P. Ramamoorthy;R. Bye;A. Lot

  • POLYMORPHIC TAXA, MISSING VALUES AND CLADISTIC ANALYSIS

    Kevin C. Nixon;Jerrold I Davis

  • Extinction and the origin of species

    K. C. Nixon;Q. D. Wheeler;M. J. Novacek

  • Global and Neotropical Distribution and Diversity of Oak (genus Quercus) and Oak Forests

    K. C. Nixon

  • Fossil Clusiaceae from the late Cretaceous (Turonian) of New Jersey and implications regarding the history of bee pollination.

    William L. Crepet;Kevin C. Nixon

  • Functional Constraints and rbcL Evidence for Land Plant Phylogeny

    Victor A Albert;Anders Backlund;Kare Bremer;Mark W Chase

  • LATE CRETACEOUS FOSSIL FLOWERS OF ERICALEAN AFFINITY

    Kevin C. Nixon;William L. Crepet

  • Oldest known Eucalyptus macrofossils are from South America.

    María A. Gandolfo;Elizabeth J. Hermsen;María C. Zamaloa;Kevin C. Nixon

  • On the Other “Phylogenetic Systematics”

    Kevin C. Nixon;James M. Carpenter

  • Earliest megafossil evidence of Fagaceae: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications

    William L. Crepet;Kevin C. Nixon

  • How Does the Inclusion of Fossil Data Change Our Conclusions about the Phylogenetic History of Euphyllophytes

    Gar W. Rothwell;Kevin C. Nixon

  • TRIGONOBALANUS (FAGACEAE): TAXONOMIC STATUS AND PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS

    Kevin C. Nixon;William L. Crepet

Frequent Co-Authors

William L. Crepet
William L. Crepet Cornell University
Maria A. Gandolfo
Maria A. Gandolfo Cornell University
James M. Carpenter
James M. Carpenter American Museum of Natural History
Else Marie Friis
Else Marie Friis Aarhus University
Paulo Mazzafera
Paulo Mazzafera State University of Campinas
Dennis W. Stevenson
Dennis W. Stevenson New York Botanical Garden
Peter Wilf
Peter Wilf Pennsylvania State University
Jerrold I. Davis
Jerrold I. Davis Cornell University
Patrick S. Herendeen
Patrick S. Herendeen George Washington University
Mark W. Chase
Mark W. Chase Royal Botanic Gardens

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