Shi, T., H. Huang, and M. S. Barker. 2010. Ancient genome duplications during the evolution of kiwifruit (Actinidia) and related Ericales. Annals of Botany in press.

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Dempewolf, H., N. C. Kane, K. L. Ostevik, M. Geleta, M. S. Barker, Z. Lai, M. L. Stewart, E. Bekele, J. M. M. Engels, Q. C. B. Cronk, and L. H. Rieseberg. 2010. Establishing genomic tools and resources for Guizotia abyssinica (L.f.) Cass. - the development of a library of expressed sequence tags, microsatellite loci and the sequencing of its chloroplast genome. Molecular Ecology Resources in press.

Supplemental Data

Barker, M. S. and P. G. Wolf. 2010. Unfurling fern biology in the genomics age. BioScience 60(3): 177-185.

Mayrose, I., M. S. Barker, and S. P. Otto. 2010. Probabilistic models of chromosome number evolution and the inference of polyploidy. Systematic Biology 59(2): 132-144.

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Barker, M. S., H. Vogel, and M. E. Schranz. 2009. Paleopolyploidy in the Brassicales: Analyses of the Cleome transcriptome elucidate the history of genome duplications in Arabidopsis and other Brassicales. Genome Biology and Evolution 1(1): 391-399.

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Barker, M. S. and G. Yatskievych. 2009. Summary of the 2008 AFS Symposium: From gels to genomics: The evolving landscape of pteridology. A celebration of Gerald Gastony's Contributions to Fern Evolutionary Biology. American Fern Journal 99(2): 117-141.

Wood, T. E., N. Takebayashi, M. S. Barker, I. Mayrose, P. B. Greenspoon, and L. H. Rieseberg. 2009. The frequency of polyploid speciation in vascular plants. PNAS 106(33): 13875-13879.

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Kane, N. C., M. King, M. S. Barker, A. Raduski, S. Karrenberg, Y. Yatabe, S. J. Knapp, and L. H. Rieseberg. 2009. Comparative genomic and population genetic analyses indicate highly porous genomes and high levels of gene flow between divergent Helianthus species. Evolution 63(8): 2061-2075.

Barker, M. S.*, K. M. Dlugosch*, A. C. C. Reddy, S. N. Amyotte^#, and L. H. Rieseberg. 2009. SCARF: Maximizing next-generation EST assemblies for evolutionary and population genomic analyses. Bioinformatics 25(4): 535-536.


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Barker, M. S., N. C. Kane, M. Matvienko, A. Kozik, R. W. Michelmore, S. J. Knapp, and L. H. Rieseberg. 2008. Multiple paleopolyploidizations during the evolution of the Compositae reveal parallel patterns of duplicate gene retention after millions of years. Molecular Biology and Evolution 25(11): 2445-2455.

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Nakazato, T., M. S. Barker, L. H. Rieseberg, and G. J. Gastony. 2008. Evolution of the nuclear genome of ferns and lycophytes. Pp. 177-200 in: The Biology and Evolution of Ferns and Lycophytes, T. Ranker and C. Haufler, eds. Cambridge University Press.

Shaw, S. W., S. V. Sprunt, and M. S. Barker. 2008. New records for Puerto Rican Ferns. American Fern Journal 98(2): 107-111.

Brandvain, Y.*, M. S. Barker*, and M. J. Wade. 2007. Gene co-inheritance and gene transfer. Science 315: 1685.

*Co-first authors
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Barker, M. S. and R. J. Hickey. 2006. A revision of Caribbean Adiantopsis (Pteridaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 93(3): 371-401.

Barker, M. S. and L. Sanchez. 2005. Inks Lake State Park and Westcave Preserve, Botany 2005 AFS Fern Foray. Fiddlehead Forum: Bulletin of the American Fern Society 32(4-5): 31-33.

Barker, M. S., J. P. Demuth, and M. J. Wade. 2005. Maternal expression relaxes constraint on innovation of the anterior determinant, bicoid. PLoS Genetics 1(5): e57.*

Nature Reviews Genetics Highlight

Barker, M. S., S. W. Shaw, R. J. Hickey, J. E. Rawlins, and J. Fetzner. 2005. Lepidopteran soral crypsis on Caribbean ferns. Biotropica 37(2): 314-316. *

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Educational display at the Denver Botanic Gardens

Barker, M. S. 2005. A Natural History of Ferns by Robbin C. Moran.  Amer. Fern J. 95(3): 128-129.

Shaw, S. W., M. S. Barker, and R. J. Hickey. 2004. New municipality records for Puerto Rican pteridophytes. Fern Gaz. 17: 97-99.

Hauk, W. D. and M. S. Barker. 2003. Botrychium lanceolatum subsp. angustisegmentum in Ohio. Amer. Fern J. 93(2): 93-94.

Hickey, R. J., M. S. Barker, and M. Ponce. 2003. An Adiantopsis hybrid from northeastern Argentina and vicinity. Amer. Fern J. 93(1): 42-44.

Barker, M. S. and W. D. Hauk. 2003. An evaluation of Sceptridium dissectum (Ophioglossaceae) with ISSR markers: Implications for Sceptridium systematics. Amer. Fern J. 93(1): 1-19.

Hauk, W. D. and M. S. Barker. 2000. Larch Mountain, 2000 AFS Fern Foray. Fiddlehead Forum: Bulletin of the American Fern Society. 27(5): 26-27.

Barker, M. S. 1999. A molecular assessment of infraspecific genetic variation in Draba verna L. using ISSR (Inter-Simple Sequence Repeat) Markers. Denison Journal of Biological Science 33(1): 27-34.