David Gernandt

Instituto de Biología, UNAM

With Pinus culminicola in Sierra de La Marta, Coahuila.

Contact information

dgernandt@ibiologia.unam.mx

telephone: (5255) 5622-9080
fax: (5255) 5550-1706

Departamento de Botanica, Instituto de Biologia
3er Circuito Exterior, Cd. Universitaria, A.P. 70-233
Mexico, D.F., MEXICO C.P. 04510

Education

B.A. Biology, University of Oregon. 1992

Ph.D. Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University. 1998

Recent papers

Gernandt, D.S., Liston, A. and D. Piñero. 2003. Phylogenetics of Pinus subsections Cembroides and Nelsoniae inferred from cpDNA sequences. Systematic Botany. 28: 657-673.

Gernandt, D.S., Geada Lopez, G., Ortiz Garcia, S. and A. Liston. 2005. Phylogeny and classification of Pinus. Taxon. 54: 29-42.

Willyard, A., Syring, J., Gernandt, D.S., Liston, A. and R. Cronn. 2007. Fossil calibration of molecular divergence infers a moderate mutation rate and recent radiations for Pinus. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24: 90-101.

Gernandt, D.S., Magallon, S.A., Geada Lopez, G., Zeron Flores, O., Willyard, A. and A. Liston. 2008. Age estimation in Pinaceae from a combined analysis of modern and fossil taxa. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 169: 1086-1099.

Cronn, R., Liston, A., Parks, M., Gernandt, D.S., Shen, R. and T. Mockler. 2008. Multiplex sequencing of chloroplast genomes using Solexa sequencing-by-synthesis technology. Nucleic Acids Research. doi 10.1093.

Gernandt, D.S., Hernández-León, S., Salgado-Hernández, E. and J.A. Pérez de la Rosa. 2009. Phylogenetic relationships of Pinus subsection Ponderosae inferred from rapidly evolving cpDNA regions. Systematic Botany. 34: 481-491.

Rosas Escobar, P., Gernandt, D.S., Piñero, D. and P.P. Garcillan. 2011. Plastid DNA diversity is higher in the island endemic Guadalupe cypress than in the continental Tecate cypress. PLoS ONE 6: e16133.

Gernandt, D.S., León-Gomez, C., Hernández-León, S. and M.E. Olson. 2011. Pinus nelsonii and a cladistic analysis of Pinaceae ovulate cone characters. Systematic Botany 36:583-594.