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Lucinda A. McDade
Researcher at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
Publications - 78
Citations - 5531
Lucinda A. McDade is an academic researcher from Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. The author has contributed to research in topics: Monophyly & Acanthaceae. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 75 publications receiving 5080 citations. Previous affiliations of Lucinda A. McDade include Duke University & University of Arizona.
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Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction and biogeography
Gary G. Mittelbach,Douglas W. Schemske,Howard V. Cornell,Andrew P. Allen,Jonathan M. Brown,Mark B. Bush,Susan Harrison,Allen H. Hurlbert,Nancy Knowlton,Harilaos A. Lessios,Christy M. McCain,Amy R. McCune,Lucinda A. McDade,Mark A. McPeek,Thomas J. Near,Trevor D. Price,Robert E. Ricklefs,Kaustuv Roy,Dov F. Sax,Dolph Schluter,James M. Sobel,Michael Turelli +21 more
TL;DR: Two major hypotheses for the origin of the latitudinal diversity gradient are reviewed, including the time and area hypothesis and the diversification rate hypothesis, which hold that tropical regions diversify faster due to higher rates of speciation, or due to lower extinction rates.
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La Selva: ecology and natural history of a neotropical rain forest.
TL;DR: La Selva, a nature reserve and field station in Costa Rica, is one of the most intensively studied and best-understood tropical field sites in the world as mentioned in this paper, and has been a major focus of research on rainforest ecology, flora and fauna.
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Fragrance chemistry, nocturnal rhythms and pollination “syndromes” in Nicotiana
Robert A. Raguso,Rachel A. Levin,Susan E Foose,Susan E Foose,Meredith W Holmberg,Lucinda A. McDade +5 more
TL;DR: GC-MS analyses of nocturnal and diurnal floral volatiles from nine tobacco species (Nicotiana; Solanaceae) suggest that phenotypic fragrance variation in Nicotiana is shaped by pollinator- and herbivore-mediated selection, biosynthetic pathway dynamics and shared evolutionary history.
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Hybrids and phylogenetic systematics. II. The impact of hybrids on cladistic analysis
TL;DR: This study suggests that hybrids are unlikely to cause breakdown of cladistic structure unless they are between distantly related parents and indicates that cladistics may not be specially useful in distinguishing hybrids from normal taxa.
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Hybrids and phylogenetic systematics. I. Patterns of character expression in hybrids and their implications for cladistic analysis
TL;DR: The patterns of character inheritance in these hybrids lead to the prediction that a hybrid will be placed by phylogenetic analysis as a basal lineage to the clade that includes its most derived parent, with relatively little effect on homoplasy.