RECENT PAPERS

Regional DNA Variation within Rhododendron macrophyllum.  Xi,Z.,Denton, A., Liang, S., Sugden, L., Hodson, M. and Hall, B.D. Journal of the American Rhododendron Society 60(1): 37-41 (2006).

Phylogeny, historical biogeography and patterns of diversification for Pinus (Pinaceae):  Phylogenetic tests of fossil-based hypotheses. Eckert, A.J. and Hall, B.D. Mol. Phylo. and Evol. 40:166-182. (2006) Currently available online at the MPE web site

The Taxonomy of Subsection Pseudovireya:  Two distinctly different taxa within subsection Pseudovireya and their Relation to the Rooting of section Vireya within subgenus Rhododendron.  Hall, B.D, Craven, L. A. and Goetsch, L. A. Rhododendron Species 1:91-97 (2006). Yearbook of the Rhododendron Species Foundation, Federal Way, WA.

The Molecular Systematics of Rhododendron:  A Phylogeny based upon RPB2 Gene Sequences. Goetsch, L.A., Eckert, A.J., and Hall, B. D. Systematic Botany, 30(3): 616-626  (2005).

RPB2 gene phylogeny in flowering plants, with particular emphasis on asterids Oxelman,B., Yoshikawa,N., McConaughy,B.L., Luo,J., Denton,A.L. and Hall,B.D. Mol.Phylogenetics & Evol. 32(2) 462-479 (2004).

Body plan evolution of ascomycotes, as inferred from an RNA polymerase II phylogeny. (2004).

             Y.J. Liu and B.D. Hall Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 101: 4507-12.