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Lena Hileman
 
Mitsuyasu Hasebe    
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Kansas, Lawrence

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Sinead Drea, Lena Hileman, G. de Martino, and Vivian F. Irish. (in revision) Functional analyses of genetic pathways controlling petal specification in poppy. Development.

Lena C. Hileman, Jens F. Sundstrom, Amy Litt, Meiqin Chen, Takudzwa Shumba, and Vivian F. Irish. 2006. Molecular and phylogenetic analyses of the MADS-Box gene family in tomato. Molecular Biology and Evolution 23 (11): 2245-2258 NOV abstract | full text | article in pdf format

David A. Baum and Lena C. Hileman. 2005. A developmental genetic model for the origin of the flower. (in press)

Lena C. Hileman, Sinéad Drea, Gemma de Martino, Amy Litt, Vivian F. Irish. 2005. Virus-induced gene silencing is an effective tool for assaying gene function in the basal eudicot species Papaver somniferum (opium poppy)
The Plant Journal 44(2): 334-341. abstract | full text article | article in pdf format

James F. Smith, S.B. Draper, Lena C. Hileman, and David A. Baum. 2004. A phylogenetic analysis within tribes Gloxinieae and Gesnerieae (Gesnerioideae: Gesneriaceae): evolution of GCYC a Gesneriaceae homolog of CYCLOIDEA. Systematic Botany 29(4): 947-958. (not available online)

James F. Smith, Lena C. Hileman, Martyn P. Powell, and David A. Baum. 2004. Evolution of GCYC, a Gesneriaceae homolog of CYCLOIDEA, within Gesnerioideae (Gesneriaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31(2): 765-779. abstract (full text article and pdf available from ScienceDirect from this link)

Lena C. Hileman, Elena M. Kramer, and David A. Baum. 2003. Differential regulation of symmetry genes and the evolution of floral morphologies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 100(22): 12814-12819. abstract | full text article | article in pdf format

Lena C. Hileman, and David A. Baum. 2003. Why do paralogs persist? Molecular evolution of CYCLOIDEA and related floral symmetry genes in antirrhineae (Veronicaceae). Molecular Biology and Evolution 20(4): 591-600. abstract | full text article | article in pdf format

Lena C. Hileman, Michael C. Vasey and V. Thomas Parker. 2001. Phylogeny and biogeography of the Arbutoideae (Ericaceae): Implications for the Madrean-Tethyan hypothesis. Systematic Botany 26(1): 131-143. abstract | full text article | article in pdf format

Guoping G. Shu, Weber Amaral, Lena C. Hileman, and David A. Baum. 2000. LEAFY and the evolution of rosette flowering in violet cress (Jonopsidium acaule, Brassicaceae). American Journal of Botany 87(5): 634-641. abstract | full text article | article in pdf format

 

 

 

 

 

 

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