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In Preparation:

Lagomarsino, L., Kirchoff, B.K., Bartlett, M.E. & C.D. Specht. Early floral development in Heliconia latispatha and comparative evolution across Zingiberales.

Renner, T., J. Bragg, H.E. Driscoll, J. Cho, A. Jackson & C.D. Specht. Viral Induced Gene Silencing as a tool for investigating floral developmental genetics in the Zingiberales.

2008

Nguyen, N, H.E. Driscoll, and C.D. Specht. 2008. A molecular phylogeny of the wild onions (Allium; Alliaceae) with a focus on the western North American center of diversity. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47: 1157-1172. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.12.006. (pdf)

Bartlett, M.E., B.K. Kirchoff, and C.D. Specht. 2008. Epi-illuminescence microscopy coupled to in situ hybridization and its utility in the study of evolution and development in non-model species. Development, Genes and Evolution 218(5): 273-279. (pdf)

2007

Kress, W. J., M. Newman, A. Poulsen, and C. D. Specht. 2007. An analysis of generic circumscriptions in tribe Alpinieae (Alpinioideae: Zingiberaceae). The Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore 59: 113-128.

Sass, Chodon, D. Little, D. Wm. Stevenson & C.D. Specht. 2007. DNA-Barcoding in the Cycadales: Testing the potential of proposed barcoding markers for species identification of Cycads. PloS-ONE. 11: e1154. (pdf)

Funk, Vicki and C. D. Specht. 2007. Meta-trees: grafting for a global perspective. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 120(2): 233-241. (pdf)

Specht, C.D. 2007. A fine look at gingers of South India: Review of “Zingiberaceae and Costaceae of South India” by M. Sabu. Taxon 56(1): 276-277. (February 2007)

Sjölander, K. and Specht, C.D. “Functional prediction through phylogenetic inference and structural classification of proteins.” 2007. In R. Apweiler [ed.], The Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics. J. Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK.

2006

Specht, C.D. and Stevenson, D.W. 2006. “A revised taxonomy for Costaceae (Zingiberales).” Taxon 55(1): 153-163.

Specht, C.D. 2006. “Systematics and Evolution of the tropical monocot family Costaceae (Zingiberales): a multiple dataset approach.” Systematic Botany 31(1):88-108.

Davis, J.I., G. Petersen, O. Seberg, D.W. Stevenson, C.R. Hardy, M.P. Simmons, F.A. Michelangeli, D.H. Goldman, L.M. Campbell, C.D. Specht, and J.I. Cohen. 2006. Are mitochondrial genes useful for the analysis of monocot relationships? Taxon 55:857-870. (pdf)

Specht, C.D. “Gondwanan Vicariance or Dispersal in the Tropics? The biogeographic history of the tropical monocot family Costaceae (Zingiberales).” 2006. In J. T. Columbus, E. A. Friar, C. W. Hamilton, J. M. Porter, L. M. Prince, and M. G. Simpson, [eds.], Monocots: comparative biology and evolution. Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, California.

Kress, W.J. and C.D. Specht. “The evolutionary and biogeographic origin and diversification of the tropical monocot order Zingiberales.” 2006. In J. T. Columbus, E. A. Friar, C. W. Hamilton, J. M. Porter, L. M. Prince, and M. G. Simpson, [eds.], Monocots: comparative biology and evolution. Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, California.

Petersen, G., O. Seberg, J.I. Davis, D.H. Goldman, D.W. Stevenson, L.M. Campbell, F.A. Michelangeli, C. D. Specht, M.W. Chase, M.F. Fay, J.C. Pires, J.V. Freudenstein, C. R. Hardy and M.P. Simmons. “Mitochondrial DNA and Monocot Phylogeny.” 2006. In J. T. Columbus, E. A. Friar, C. W. Hamilton, J. M. Porter, L. M. Prince, and M. G. Simpson, [eds.], Monocots: comparative biology and evolution. Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, California.

2001 - 2005

Specht, C.D. 2005. “Phylogenetics, Floral Evolution, and Rapid Radiation in the Tropical Monocot Family Costaceae (Zingiberales).” Pp. 29-60 in Plant Genome: Biodiversity and Evolution. A.K Sharma and A. Sharma (Eds.) Science Publishers, Inc. Enfield, NH. USA.

Kress, W. J. and C. D. Specht. 2005. “Between Cancer and Capricorn: phylogeny, evolution, and ecology of the tropical Zingiberales.“ In I. Friis and H. Balslev, eds. Proceedings of a symposium on plant diversity and complexity patterns - local, regional and global dimensions. Biologiske Skrifter, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen.

Davis, J.I., D.W. Stevenson, G. Petersen, O. Seberg, L.M. Campbell, J.V. Freudenstein, D.H. Goldman, C.R. Hardy, F.A. Michelangeli, M.P. Simmons, C.D. Specht, F. Vergara-Silva, and M.A. Gandolfo. 2004. “A phylogeny of the monocots, as inferred from rbcL and atpA sequence variation, and a comparison of methods for calculating jackknife and bootstrap values.” Systematic Botany 29(3):467-510.

Specht, C.D. and Stevenson, D.W. 2003. “Easy Trees? - Review of "Phylogenetic trees made easy: a how-to manual for molecular biologists" by Barry Hall.” Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 27:168-171.

Specht, C.D., Kress, W.J., Stevenson, D.W., and DeSalle, R. 2001. “A Molecular Phylogeny of Costaceae (Zingiberales).” Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 21(3):333-345.

1997-2000

Stevenson, D.W., Davis, J.D., Freudenstein, J.V., Hardy, C.R., Simmons, M.P., and Specht, C.D. 2000. “A Phylogenetic analysis of the Monocotyledons based on Morphological and Molecular character sets, with comments on the placement of Acoris and Hydetellaceae.” Monocots: Systematics and Evolution. Eds K.L. Wilson and D.A. Morrison. CSIRO:Melbourne.

Lim, J., Heliarutta, Y., Specht, C.D., Jung, J., Sims, L., Bruce, W.B., Diehn, S., and Benfey, P.N. 2000. “Molecular Analysis of the SCARECROW Gene in Maize Reveals a Common Basis for Radial Patterning in Diverse Meristems.” The Plant Cell 12:1307-1318.

Specht, C.D. and Caffrey, P. 1999. “Manejo Sostenible de Recursos y Conservación de la Biodiversidad.” BOLFOR 17: 1-3.

Goldstein, Paul Z. and Specht, C.D. 1997. “Pitfalls in phylogenetic analysis of Large Molecular Data.” In Molecular Ecology and Evolution, in B. Schierwater et al. (eds.) Berlin: Birkhauser Verlag.