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  • 2009 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Mark P. Simmons is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. They have a research focus broadly encompassing Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with additional work in Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Medicine. Their work intersects several specialized subfields including Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Paleontology, and Infectious Diseases.

The main topics of their research include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Genetic diversity and population structure, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Plant and animal studies, and research related to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.

Selected recent publications by Mark P. Simmons include:

  • "Collapsing dubiously resolved gene-tree branches in phylogenomic coalescent analyses", 2021, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • "Gene-tree misrooting drives conflicts in phylogenomic coalescent analyses of palaeognath birds", 2021, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Other notable papers within their network of research include:

  • "New Guinea has the world's richest island flora", 2020, Nature
  • "Treatment for Severe Coronavirus Disease 2019 With the Seraph-100 Microbind Affinity Blood Filter", 2020, Critical Care Explorations
  • "Mitochondrial fatty acid β-oxidation is required for storage-lipid catabolism in a marine diatom", 2020, New Phytologist

They have published frequently in the following venues:

  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Cladistics
  • Nature
  • Critical Care Explorations
  • New Phytologist

Simmons collaborates notably with several researchers, including:

  • John Gatesy
  • Mark S. Springer
  • William J. Baker
  • Júlio Antônio Lombardi
  • Rodrigo Cámara-Leret

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation since 2009.

Best Publications

  • Gaps as Characters in Sequence-Based Phylogenetic Analyses

    Mark P. Simmons;Helga Ochoterena

  • Functional trait niches of North American lotic insects: traits-based ecological applications in light of phylogenetic relationships

    N. LeRoy Poff;Julian D. Olden;Nicole K. M. Vieira;Debra S. Finn

  • Phylogeny and subfamilial classification of the grasses (Poaceae)

    N. P. Barker;L. G. Clark;J. I. Davis

  • How Meaningful Are Bayesian Support Values

    Mark P. Simmons;Kurt M. Pickett;Masaki Miya

  • Independence of alignment and tree search

    Mark P. Simmons

  • Incorporation, relative homoplasy, and effect of gap characters in sequence-based phylogenetic analyses.

    Mark P. Simmons;Helga Ochoterena;Timothy G. Carr

  • 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

  • Whole-Genome Comparison of Leucine-Rich Repeat Extensins in Arabidopsis and Rice. A Conserved Family of Cell Wall Proteins Form a Vegetative and a Reproductive Clade

    Nicolas Baumberger;Brigitte Doesseger;Romain Guyot;Anouck Diet

  • Data decisiveness, data quality, and incongruence in phylogenetic analysis: an example from the monocotyledons using mitochondrial atp A sequences.

    Jerrold I. Davis;Mark P. Simmons;Dennis W. Stevenson;Jonathan F. Wendel

  • New Guinea has the world’s richest island flora

    Rodrigo Cámara-Leret;Rodrigo Cámara-Leret;David G. Frodin;Frits Adema;Christiane Anderson

  • Phylogeny of the Cucurbitales based on DNA sequences of nine loci from three genomes: Implications for morphological and sexual system evolution

    Li-Bing Zhang;Mark P. Simmons;Alexander Kocyan;Susanne S. Renner

  • Comprehensive comparative analysis of kinesins in photosynthetic eukaryotes

    Dale N Richardson;Mark P Simmons;Anireddy S N Reddy

  • Phylogeny of the Celastraceae Inferred from 26S Nuclear Ribosomal DNA, Phytochrome B, rbcL, atpB, and Morphology

    Mark P Simmons;Vincent Savolainen;Curtis C Clevinger;Robert H Archer

  • The relative performance of indel-coding methods in simulations.

    Mark P. Simmons;Kai Müller;Andrew P. Norton

  • Phylogeny and Delimitation of the Celastrales Inferred from Nuclear and Plastid Genes

    Li-Bing Zhang;Li-Bing Zhang;Mark P. Simmons

  • Misleading results of likelihood-based phylogenetic analyses in the presence of missing data

    Mark P. Simmons

  • Phylogeny of the Celastraceae inferred from phytochrome B gene sequence and morphology.

    Mark P. Simmons;Curtis C. Clevinger;Vincent Savolainen;Robert H. Archer

  • Radical instability and spurious branch support by likelihood when applied to matrices with non-random distributions of missing data.

    Mark P. Simmons

  • Cryptic species diversity reveals biogeographic support for the 'mountain passes are higher in the tropics' hypothesis.

    B. A. Gill;B. C. Kondratieff;K. L. Casner;A. C. Encalada

  • Molecular analyses of the Chinese herb Leigongteng (Tripterygium wilfordii Hook.f.).

    Sue Ka-Yee Law;Mark P. Simmons;Natascha Techen;Ikhlas A. Khan

Frequent Co-Authors

John Gatesy
John Gatesy American Museum of Natural History
Jerrold I. Davis
Jerrold I. Davis Cornell University
Daniel B. Sloan
Daniel B. Sloan Colorado State University
N. LeRoy Poff
N. LeRoy Poff Colorado State University
Mark S. Springer
Mark S. Springer University of California, Riverside
Dennis W. Stevenson
Dennis W. Stevenson New York Botanical Garden
Pang-Chui Shaw
Pang-Chui Shaw Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chelsea D. Specht
Chelsea D. Specht Cornell University
Sven Buerki
Sven Buerki Boise State University
Elizabeth A. H. Pilon-Smits
Elizabeth A. H. Pilon-Smits Colorado State University

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