PUBLICATIONS

2023

• Schley, R. J.; Piñeiro, R.; Nicholls, J. A.; Pezzini, F. ; Kidner, C.; Farbos, A.; Moore, K.; Ringelberg, J. J.; Twyford, A. D.; Dexter, K. D.; Pennington, R. T. ‘Do Reticulate Relationships Between Tropical Trees Drive Diversification? Insights from Inga (Fabaceae)’ (bioRxiv) DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.12.557345
   

• Schley R. J. ‘The causes of species hyperdiversity in tropical ecosystems - from reef to rainforest’
  (In review) Current Biology.

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• Schley R.J.; Leitch I. J.; Christenhusz M. J. M. et al. ‘The genome sequence of the tree of heaven, Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle, 1916’. (2023) Wellcome Open Research. DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19628.1
   

• De-Kayne, R.; Schley, R. J.; Barth, J. M. I. et al. ‘The role of ecology in adaptive radiation’ (In review) Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Speciation.

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• Zutini A. R.; … Schley R. J. et al. ‘Phylogenomics and the rise of the Angiosperms’ (In review) Nature

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2022

• Schley, R. J., Pellicer, J., Ge, X.-J., Barrett, C., Bellot, S., Guignard, M., Novak, P., Suda, J., Fraser, D., Baker, W., Dodsworth, S., Macas, J., Leitch, A., Leitch, I. J. (2022) 'The Ecology of Palm Genomes: Repeat-associated genome size expansion is constrained by aridity'. New Phytologist. DOI: 10.1111/nph.18323

  • Featured on the cover (https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14698137/2022/236/2 )

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• Schley R. J., Qin, M., Vatanparast, M., Malakasi, P., de la Estrella, M., Lewis G. P., Klitgård, B. (2022) 'Pantropical diversification of padauk trees and relatives was influenced by biome-switching and long-distance dispersal'. Journal of Biogeography. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.14310

  • Featured in J. Biogeog.'s "ECR feature": (https://journalofbiogeographynews.org/2022/03/19/ecr-feature-rowan-schley-on-the-diversification-of-pantropical-trees/) 

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2021

• Schley, R. J., Twyford, A., Pennington, R. T. (2021) 'Hybridisation: A 'double-edged sword' for neotropical plant diversity'. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. DOI: 10.1093/botlinnean/boab070

  • Featured as 'most discussed' paper (https://academic.oup.com/botlinnean/pages/highly_cited )

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• Pérez‐Escobar, O.A., Dodsworth, S., Bogarín, D., Bellot, S., Balbuena, J.A., Schley, R.J., Kikuchi, I.A., Morris, S.K., Epitawalage, N., Cowan, R. and Maurin, O., 2021. Hundreds of nuclear and plastid loci yield novel insights into orchid relationships. American Journal of Botany. DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1702

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• Kuhnhäuser, B.G., Bellot, S., Couvreur, T.L., Dransfield, J., Henderson, A., Schley, R., Chomicki, G., Eiserhardt, W.L., Hiscock, S.J. and Baker, W.J., 'A robust phylogenomic framework for the calamoid palms'. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.107067

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• Pérez-Escobar, O.A., Bellott, S., Przelomska, N.A., Flowers, J.M., Nesbitt, M., Ryan, P., Gutaker, R.M., Gros-Balthazard, M., Wells, T., Kuhnhäuser, B.G., Schley, R., et al. (2021). Molecular clocks and archaeogenomics of a Late Period Egyptian date palm leaf reveal introgression from wild relatives and add timestamps on the domestication. Molecular Biology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab188.

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2020

• Schley, R. J., Pennington, R. T., Pérez-Escobar, O. A., Helmstetter, A. J., de la Estrella, M., Larridon, I., Sabino Kikuchi, I. A. B., Barraclough, T., Forest, F., Klitgård, B. (2020)
  ‘Introgression across evolutionary scales suggests reticulation contributes to Amazonian tree diversity’ Molecular Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/mec.15616

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• Qin, M., Zhu, C.‐J. Yang, J.-B., Vatanparast, M., Schley, R. J., Lai, Q., Zhang, D.‐Y., Tu, T.‐Y., Klitgård, B. B.,  Li, S.-J.,  Zhang, D.‐X. (2020)
  ‘Comparative analysis of complete plastid genome reveals powerful barcode regions for identifying wood of Dalbergia odorifera and D. tonkinensis (Leguminosae)’ Journal of Systematics and Evolution.
  DOI: 10.1111/jse.12598 ​

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2019

• Pérez-Escobar, O. A., Bogarín, D., Schley, R. J., Bateman., R, Gerlach, G., Harpke, D., Brassac, J., Fernández-Mazuecos, M., Dodsworth, S., Hagsater, E., Gottschling, M., Blattner, F.  (2019)
  ‘Resolving relationships in an exceedingly young orchid lineage using Genotyping-by-sequencing data’
  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106672

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2018

• Schley, R. J., de la Estrella, M., Pérez-Escobar, O. A., Bruneau, A., Barraclough, T., Forest, F., Klitgård, B. (2018)
  'Is Amazonia a ‘museum’ for Neotropical trees? The evolution of the Brownea clade (Detarioideae, Leguminosae)’ Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.04.029
   

• Nauheimer, L., Schley, R. J., Clements, M. A., Micheneau, C., Nargar, K. (2018)
  ‘Australasian orchid biogeography at continental scale: molecular phylogenetic insights from the sun orchids (Thelymitra, Orchidaceae)’. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.05.031

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2017

• Murphy, B., de la Estrella, M., Schley, R. J., Forest, F., Klitgård, B. (2017)
  ‘On the Monophyly of Macrolobium Schreb., an Ecologically Diverse Neotropical Tree Genus
  (Fabaceae-Detarioideae)’. International Journal of Plant Sciences. DOI: 10.1086/695338