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62
Citations
27809
World Ranking
2016
National Ranking
239

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Peter M. Hollingsworth is affiliated with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several fields, primarily focusing on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with substantial contributions to agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science.

Their work covers key subfields including molecular biology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, genetics, plant science, and ecology. The main topics addressed in their research involve genetic diversity and population structure, genomics and phylogenetic studies, plant and animal studies, plant and fungal species descriptions, species distribution and climate change, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, and issues related to conservation, biodiversity, and resource management.

Peter M. Hollingsworth has published extensively, with notable recent papers listed below:

  • MitoHiFi: a python pipeline for mitochondrial genome assembly from PacBio high fidelity reads, 2023, BMC Bioinformatics
  • A DNA barcoding framework for taxonomic verification in the Darwin Tree of Life Project, 2024, Wellcome Open Research
  • Sequence locally, think globally: The Darwin Tree of Life Project, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Extinction risk and threats to plants and fungi, 2020, Plants People Planet
  • Specimen and sample metadata standards for biodiversity genomics: a proposal from the Darwin Tree of Life project, 2022, Wellcome Open Research

Frequent co-authors in their body of work include:

  • Alex D. Twyford
  • Markus Ruhsam
  • Michelle Hart
  • Antje Ahrends
  • Paul Kersey

Peter M. Hollingsworth's publications have appeared often in the following venues:

  • Wellcome Open Research
  • Plants People Planet
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Molecular Ecology Resources
  • Nature

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh since 2019.

Best Publications

  • Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi

    Conrad L. Schoch;Keith A. Seifert;Sabine Huhndorf;Vincent Robert

  • A DNA barcode for land plants.

    Peter M. Hollingsworth;Laura L. Forrest;John L. Spouge

  • MitoHiFi: a python pipeline for mitochondrial genome assembly from PacBio high fidelity reads

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  • Choosing and Using a Plant DNA Barcode

    Peter M. Hollingsworth;Sean W. Graham;Damon P. Little

  • Rapid diversification of a species-rich genus of neotropical rain forest trees

    James E. Richardson;James E. Richardson;R. Toby Pennington;Terence D. Pennington;Peter M. Hollingsworth

  • Chloroplast microsatellites: new tools for studies in plant ecology and evolution

    Jim Provan;Wayne Powell;Peter M. Hollingsworth

  • A proposal for a standardised protocol to barcode all land plants

    Mark W. Chase;Robyn S. Cowan;Peter M. Hollingsworth;Cassio van den Berg

  • Origin of angiosperms and the puzzle of the Jurassic gap

    Hong-Tao Li;Ting-Shuang Yi;Lian-Ming Gao;Peng-Fei Ma

  • Selecting barcoding loci for plants: evaluation of seven candidate loci with species-level sampling in three divergent groups of land plants.

    Michelle L. Hollingsworth;Alex Andra Clark;Laura L. Forrest;James Richardson

  • A DNA barcoding framework for taxonomic verification in the Darwin Tree of Life Project

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  • Molecular phylogenetics and evolution of Orchidinae and selected Habenariinae (Orchidaceae)

    Richard M. Bateman;Peter M. Hollingsworth;Jillian Preston;Luo Yi-Bo;Luo Yi-Bo

  • From barcodes to genomes: extending the concept of DNA barcoding

    Eric Coissac;Peter M. Hollingsworth;Sébastien Lavergne;Pierre Taberlet

  • How much effort is required to isolate nuclear microsatellites from plants

    J. Squirrell;P. M. Hollingsworth;M. Woodhead;J. Russell

  • Current trends of rubber plantation expansion may threaten biodiversity and livelihoods

    Antje Ahrends;Antje Ahrends;Peter M. Hollingsworth;Peter M. Hollingsworth;Alan D. Ziegler;Jefferson M. Fox

  • Extinction risk and threats to plants and fungi

    Eimear Nic Lughadha;Steven P. Bachman;Tarciso C.C. Leão;Félix Forest

  • Telling plant species apart with DNA: from barcodes to genomes

    Peter M. Hollingsworth;De-Zhu Li;Michelle van der Bank;Alexander Twyford

  • Plastid phylogenomic insights into relationships of all flowering plant families.

    Hong-Tao Li;Yang Luo;Lu Gan;Peng-Fei Ma

  • Molecular systematics and plant evolution

    Peter M. Hollingsworth;Richard M. Bateman;Richard J. Gornall

  • Understanding and monitoring the consequences of human impacts on intraspecific variation.

    Makiko Mimura;Tetsukazu Yahara;Daniel P. Faith;Ella Vázquez-Domínguez

  • Genome skimming herbarium specimens for DNA barcoding and phylogenomics

    Chun-Xia Zeng;Peter M. Hollingsworth;Jing Yang;Zheng-Shan He

  • DNA barcoding methods for land plants.

    Aron J. Fazekas;Maria L. Kuzmina;Steven G. Newmaster;Peter M. Hollingsworth

  • DNAqua-Net: Developing new genetic tools for bioassessment and monitoring of aquatic ecosystems in Europe

    Florian Leese;Florian Altermatt;Agnès Bouchez;Torbjørn Ekrem

  • Comparative analysis of population genetic structure in Athyrium distentifolium (Pteridophyta) using AFLPs and SSRs from anonymous and transcribed gene regions

    M. Woodhead;J. Russell;J. Squirrell;P. M. Hollingsworth

  • DNA barcoding of lichenized fungi demonstrates high identification success in a floristic context

    Laura J. Kelly;Laura J. Kelly;Peter M. Hollingsworth;Brian J. Coppins;Christopher J. Ellis

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard A. Ennos
Richard A. Ennos University of Edinburgh
Dimitri N. Mavris
Dimitri N. Mavris Georgia Institute of Technology
Grant Allen
Grant Allen University of Manchester
Mark W. Chase
Mark W. Chase Royal Botanic Gardens
Christopher D. Preston
Christopher D. Preston UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Wayne Powell
Wayne Powell Scotland's Rural College
Richard M. Bateman
Richard M. Bateman Royal Botanic Gardens
Joanne Russell
Joanne Russell James Hutton Institute
James E. Richardson
James E. Richardson University College Cork
Alexandre Antonelli
Alexandre Antonelli University of Gothenburg

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