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Paul G. Wolf is affiliated with the University of Alabama in Huntsville in the United States. Their research primarily spans Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions also in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their work focuses on several subfields, including:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Plant Science
  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics
  • Cell Biology

Key topics in their research encompass:

  • Fern and Epiphyte Biology
  • Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Some of the recent publications by Paul G. Wolf include:

  • Dynamic genome evolution in a model fern, 2022, Nature Plants
  • Cryptic diversity in the model fern genus Ceratopteris (Pteridaceae), 2020, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • There and Back Again: Reticulate Evolution in Ceratopteris, 2020, American Fern Journal
  • Why Do Heterosporous Plants Have So Few Chromosomes?, 2022, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Chromosome Numbers and Reproductive Life Cycles in Green Plants: A Phylotranscriptomic Perspective, 2025, Plant Direct

Paul G. Wolf has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Sylvia P. Kinosian
  • William D. Pearse
  • Rijan R. Dhakal
  • Alex Harkess
  • Carol A. Rowe

Their studies have appeared in various publication venues, among which the most frequent are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Nature Plants
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • American Fern Journal

Best Publications

  • A classification for extant ferns

    Alan R. Smith;Kathleen M. Pryer;Eric Schuettpelz;Petra Korall;Petra Korall

  • A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns

    Eric Schuettpelz;Harald Schneider;Alan R. Smith;Peter Hovenkamp

  • The Selaginella genome identifies genetic changes associated with the evolution of vascular plants.

    Jo Ann Banks;Tomoaki Nishiyama;Mitsuyasu Hasebe;Mitsuyasu Hasebe;John L. Bowman;John L. Bowman

  • Phylogeny and evolution of ferns (monilophytes) with a focus on the early leptosporangiate divergences

    Kathleen M. Pryer;Eric Schuettpelz;Paul G. Wolf;Harald Schneider;Harald Schneider

  • Horsetails and ferns are a monophyletic group and the closest living relatives to seed plants.

    Kathleen M. Pryer;Harald Schneider;Alan R. Smith;Raymond Cranfill

  • Fern genomes elucidate land plant evolution and cyanobacterial symbioses

    Fay Wei Li;Fay Wei Li;Paul Brouwer;Lorenzo Carretero-Paulet;Shifeng Cheng

  • Fern phylogeny based on rbcL nucleotide sequences

    Mitsuyasu Hasebe;Paul G Wolf;Kathleen M. Pryer;Kunihiko Ueda

  • Evolutionary Conservation of ABA Signaling for Stomatal Closure

    Shengguan Cai;Guang Chen;Yuanyuan Wang;Yuqing Huang

  • The C-Fern (Ceratopteris richardii) genome: insights into plant genome evolution with the first partial homosporous fern genome assembly

    D. Blaine Marchant;D. Blaine Marchant;D. Blaine Marchant;Emily B. Sessa;Paul G. Wolf;Paul G. Wolf;Kweon Heo

  • Geographic distributions of homosporous ferns: does dispersal obscure evidence of vicariance?

    Paul G. Wolf;H. Schneider;T. A. Ranker

  • High levels of RNA editing in a vascular plant chloroplast genome: analysis of transcripts from the fern Adiantum capillus-veneris.

    Paul G. Wolf;Carol A. Rowe;Mitsuyasu Hasebe

  • Phylogenetic Relationships of Dennstaedtioid Ferns: Evidence from rbcL Sequences

    Paul G. Wolf;Pamela S. Soltis;Douglas E. Soltis

  • Genomics of Chloroplasts and Mitochondria

    Paul G. Wolf;K. G. Karol

  • Chloroplast Phylogeny Indicates That Bryophytes Are Monophyletic

    Tomoaki Nishiyama;Paul G. Wolf;Masanori Kugita;Robert B. Sinclair

  • Complete plastome sequences of Equisetum arvense and Isoetes flaccida: implications for phylogeny and plastid genome evolution of early land plant lineages

    Kenneth G Karol;Kathiravetpillai Arumuganathan;Jeffrey L Boore;Aaron M Duffy

  • The phylogeny of land plants inferred from 18S rDNA sequences: pushing the limits of rDNA signal?

    P S Soltis;D E Soltis;P G Wolf;D L Nickrent

  • Plant Genome Diversity

    Paul G. Wolf

  • Complete nucleotide sequence of the chloroplast genome from a leptosporangiate fern, Adiantum capillus-veneris L.

    Paul G. Wolf;Carol A. Rowe;Robert B. Sinclair;Mitsuyasu Hasebe

  • Functional gene losses occur with minimal size reduction in the plastid genome of the parasitic liverwort Aneura mirabilis.

    Norman J. Wickett;Yan Zhang;S. Kellon Hansen;Jessie M. Roper

  • CHLOROPLAST-DNA AND ALLOZYMIC VARIATION IN DIPLOID AND AUTOTETRAPLOID HEUCHERA GROSSULARIIFOLIA (SAXIFRAGACEAE).

    Paul G. Wolf;Douglas E. Soltis;Pamela S. Soltis

Frequent Co-Authors

Kathleen M. Pryer
Kathleen M. Pryer Duke University
Douglas E. Soltis
Douglas E. Soltis University of Florida
Pamela S. Soltis
Pamela S. Soltis University of Florida
Harald Schneider
Harald Schneider Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
Jeffrey L. Boore
Jeffrey L. Boore University of California, Berkeley
Mitsuyasu Hasebe
Mitsuyasu Hasebe The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI
Brent D. Mishler
Brent D. Mishler University of California, Berkeley
Fay-Wei Li
Fay-Wei Li Cornell University
Michael S. Barker
Michael S. Barker University of Arizona
Richard G. Olmstead
Richard G. Olmstead University of Washington

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