Mexicanconifers.org is the lab web page of David Gernandt. Visitors can find pages with species lists of Mexican conifers, information on current and past students, ongoing herbarium database capturing projects, molecular protocols, course offerings, and links to events at the Instituto de Biología, UNAM.

David Gernandt

Instituto de Biología, UNAM

Gernandt

In northern California.

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.