Selected Publications
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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in pdf format
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