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Laura L. Forrest
Researcher at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Publications - 55
Citations - 4372
Laura L. Forrest is an academic researcher from Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Monophyly & Marchantiophyta. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 51 publications receiving 3765 citations. Previous affiliations of Laura L. Forrest include Southern Illinois University Carbondale & University of Connecticut.
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A DNA barcode for land plants.
Peter M. Hollingsworth,Laura L. Forrest,John L. Spouge,Mehrdad Hajibabaei,Sujeevan Ratnasingham,Michelle van der Bank,Mark W. Chase,Robyn S. Cowan,David L. Erickson,Aron J. Fazekas,Sean W. Graham,Karen E. James,Ki Joong Kim,W. John Kress,Harald Schneider,Jonathan van Alphen-Stahl,Spencer C. H. Barrett,Cássio van den Berg,Diego Bogarín,Kevin S. Burgess,Kevin S. Burgess,Kenneth M. Cameron,Kenneth M. Cameron,Mark A. Carine,Juliana Chacón,Alexandra Clark,James J. Clarkson,Ferozah Conrad,Dion S. Devey,Caroline S. Ford,Terry A. Hedderson,Michelle L. Hollingsworth,Brian C. Husband,Laura J. Kelly,Laura J. Kelly,Prasad Kesanakurti,Jung Sung Kim,Young-Dong Kim,Renaud Lahaye,Hae-Lim Lee,David G. Long,Santiago Madriñán,Olivier Maurin,Isabelle Meusnier,Steven G. Newmaster,Chong-Wook Park,Diana M. Percy,Gitte Petersen,James E. Richardson,Gerardo A. Salazar,Vincent Savolainen,Vincent Savolainen,Ole Seberg,Mike J. Wilkinson,Dong-Keun Yi,Damon P. Little +55 more
TL;DR: The 2-locus combination of rbcL+matK will provide a universal framework for the routine use of DNA sequence data to identify specimens and contribute toward the discovery of overlooked species of land plants.
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Selecting barcoding loci for plants: evaluation of seven candidate loci with species-level sampling in three divergent groups of land plants.
Michelle L. Hollingsworth,Alex Andra Clark,Laura L. Forrest,James E. Richardson,R. Toby Pennington,David G. Long,Robyn S. Cowan,Mark W. Chase,Myriam Gaudeul,Peter M. Hollingsworth +9 more
TL;DR: Evaluated the seven main candidate plastid regions in three divergent groups of land plants, no single locus showed high levels of universality and resolvability and when multiple loci were combined, fewer barcodes were shared among species.
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Unraveling the evolutionary history of the liverworts (Marchantiophyta): multiple taxa, genomes and analyses
Laura L. Forrest,E. Christine Davis,David G. Long,Barbara Crandall-Stotler,Alexandra Clark,Michelle L. Hollingsworth +5 more
TL;DR: Nucleotide sequence data from three chloroplast genes, one nuclear gene and one mitochondrial gene were assembled for 173 species in 117 genera of liverworts, making this the largest molecular phylogeny of the group to date, providing support for the monophyly of the liverwort and for previously resolved backbone relationships within the Marchantiophyta.
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Extant diversity of bryophytes emerged from successive post-Mesozoic diversification bursts
Benjamin Laenen,Benjamin Laenen,Blanka Shaw,Harald Schneider,Bernard Goffinet,Emmanuel Paradis,Aurélie Désamoré,Aurélie Désamoré,Jochen Heinrichs,Juan Carlos Villarreal,S. R. Gradstein,Stuart F. McDaniel,David G. Long,Laura L. Forrest,Michelle L. Hollingsworth,Barbara Crandall-Stotler,E. C. Davis,John F. Engel,M von Konrat,Endymion D. Cooper,Jairo Patiño,Cymon J. Cox,Alain Vanderpoorten,A. J. Shaw +23 more
TL;DR: Overall estimates of net species diversification are approximately half those reported in ferns and ∼30% those described for angiosperms, and statistical rate analyses reveal that mosses and liverworts underwent bursts of diversification since the mid-Mesozoic.
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Pleistocene and pre-Pleistocene Begonia speciation in Africa
TL;DR: A general pattern is identified where phylogenetically isolated species occur outside the main identified rain forest refuges, and São Tomé appears to have functioned as an important (if previously unrecognised) pre-Pleistocene refuge.