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Sean W. Graham is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Within these broader fields, their work concentrates on subfields including Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Genetics, and Immunology.

The main topics covered by Sean W. Graham include Plant Diversity and Evolution, Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions, Plant and Animal Studies, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, and Plant Parasitism and Resistance.

Their recent scholarly publications reflect a strong focus on phylogenomics and plant biology. Key papers include:

  • Exploring Angiosperms353: An open, community toolkit for collaborative phylogenomic research on flowering plants, 2021, American Journal of Botany
  • Comprehensive phylogenomic time tree of bryophytes reveals deep relationships and uncovers gene incongruences in the last 500 million years of diversification, 2023, American Journal of Botany
  • A new carnivorous plant lineage (Triantha) with a unique sticky-inflorescence trap, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Phylogenomic resolution of order- and family-level monocot relationships using 602 single-copy nuclear genes and 1375 BUSCO genes, 2022, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Discordant Phylogenomic Placement of Hydnoraceae and Lactoridaceae Within Piperales Using Data From All Three Genomes, 2021, Frontiers in Plant Science

Sean W. Graham frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • American Journal of Botany
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Genome Biology and Evolution
  • New Phytologist

Collaborations are evident with several co-authors who have frequently contributed to research efforts. These include:

  • Marybel Soto Gomez
  • Qianshi Lin
  • Paula J. Rudall
  • Rui Wang
  • Cécile Ané

Best Publications

  • A DNA barcode for land plants.

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

  • Phylogenetics of Seed Plants: An Analysis of Nucleotide Sequences from the Plastid Gene rbcL

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  • Choosing and Using a Plant DNA Barcode

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

  • Phylotranscriptomic analysis of the origin and early diversification of land plants

    Norman J. Wickett;Siavash Mirarab;Nam Nguyen;Tandy Warnow

  • Multiple Multilocus DNA Barcodes from the Plastid Genome Discriminate Plant Species Equally Well

    Aron J. Fazekas;Kevin S. Burgess;Prasad R. Kesanakurti;Sean W. Graham

  • Data access for the 1,000 Plants (1KP) project.

    Naim Matasci;Ling Hong Hung;Zhixiang Yan;Eric J. Carpenter

  • The Physcomitrella patens chromosome-scale assembly reveals moss genome structure and evolution.

    Daniel Lang;Kristian K. Ullrich;Florent Murat;Joerg Fuchs

  • Utility of 17 chloroplast genes for inferring the phylogeny of the basal angiosperms.

    Sean W. Graham;Richard G. Olmstead

  • Are plant species inherently harder to discriminate than animal species using DNA barcoding markers

    Aron J. Fazekas;Prasad R. Kesanakurti;Kevin S. Burgess;Diana M. Percy

  • Towards a phylogenetic nomenclature of Tracheophyta

    Philip D. Cantino;James A. Doyle;Sean W. Graham;Walter S. Judd

  • MICROSTRUCTURAL CHANGES IN NONCODING CHLOROPLAST DNA: INTERPRETATION, EVOLUTION, AND UTILITY OF INDELS AND INVERSIONS IN BASAL ANGIOSPERM PHYLOGENETIC INFERENCE

    Sean W. Graham;Patrick A. Reeves;Analiese C. E. Burns;Richard G. Olmstead

  • Early genome duplications in conifers and other seed plants.

    Zheng Li;Anthony E. Baniaga;Emily B. Sessa;Moira Scascitelli

  • Multigene Analyses of Monocot Relationships

    Mark W. Chase;Michael F. Fay;Dion S. Devey;Oliver Maurin

  • Assembling the tree of the monocotyledons: plastome sequence phylogeny and evolution of Poales.

    Thomas J. Givnish;Mercedes Ames;Joel R. McNeal;Michael R. McKain

  • Hydatellaceae identified as a new branch near the base of the angiosperm phylogenetic tree

    Jeffery M. Saarela;Hardeep S. Rai;James A. Doyle;Peter K. Endress

  • Monocot plastid phylogenomics, timeline, net rates of species diversification, the power of multi-gene analyses, and a functional model for the origin of monocots.

    Thomas J. Givnish;Alejandro Zuluaga;Daniel Spalink;Marybel Soto Gomez

  • Evaluating methods for isolating total RNA and predicting the success of sequencing phylogenetically diverse plant transcriptomes.

    Marc T.J. Johnson;Eric J. Carpenter;Zhijian Tian;Richard Bruskiewich

  • 10KP: A phylodiverse genome sequencing plan.

    Shifeng Cheng;Michael Melkonian;Stephen A Smith;Samuel Brockington

  • Discriminating plant species in a local temperate flora using the rbcL+matK DNA barcode

    Kevin S. Burgess;Aron J. Fazekas;Prasad R. Kesanakurti;Sean W. Graham

  • The evolutionary history of ferns inferred from 25 low-copy nuclear genes

    Carl J. Rothfels;Fay Wei Li;Erin M. Sigel;Layne Huiet

  • Rooting Phylogenetic Trees with Distant Outgroups: A Case Study from the Commelinoid Monocots

    Sean W. Graham;Richard G. Olmstead;Spencer C. H. Barrett

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis W. Stevenson
Dennis W. Stevenson New York Botanical Garden
Gane Ka-Shu Wong
Gane Ka-Shu Wong University of Alberta
Douglas E. Soltis
Douglas E. Soltis University of Florida
Michael Melkonian
Michael Melkonian Max Planck Society
Jim Leebens-Mack
Jim Leebens-Mack University of Georgia
Spencer C. H. Barrett
Spencer C. H. Barrett University of Toronto
Fay-Wei Li
Fay-Wei Li Cornell University
J. Chris Pires
J. Chris Pires Colorado State University
Pamela S. Soltis
Pamela S. Soltis University of Florida
Richard G. Olmstead
Richard G. Olmstead University of Washington

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