Roberta J. Mason-Gamer
Molecular Systematics of Plants

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Selected Publications

Mason-Gamer, R. J., M. Naum, and M. M. Burns. 2010.Reticulate evolutionary history of a complex group of grasses: phylogeny of Elymus StStHH allotetraploids based on three nuclear genes. PLoS ONE 5:e10989. Abstract   Reprint(pdf)

Mason-Gamer, R. J., M. Naum, and M. M. Burns. 2010. Phylogenetic relationships and reticulation among Asian Elymus (Poaceae) allotetraploids: Analyses of three nuclear gene trees. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54:10–22. Abstract   Reprint(pdf)

Mason-Gamer, R. J.  2008.  Allohexaploidy, introgression, and the complex phylogenetic history of Elymus repens (Poaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47:598–611. Abstract   Reprint(pdf)

Mason-Gamer, R. J.  2007.  Allopolyploids of the genus Elymus (Triticeae, Poaceae): a phylogenetic perspective. Aliso 23:372–379. Abstract   Reprint(pdf)

Mason-Gamer, R. J.  2007.  Multiple homoplasious insertions and excisions of a Triticeae (Poaceae) DNA transposon: a phylogenetic perspective. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7:92.  Abstract
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Simeone, M. C., K. R. Gedye, R. J. Mason-Gamer, B. S. Gill, and C. F. Morris.  2006.  Conserved regulatory elements identified from a comparative survey of puroindoline gene sequences of Triticum and Aegilops diploid taxa.  Journal of Cereal Science 44:21–33. Abstract

Mason-Gamer, R. J.  2005.  The β-amylase genes of grasses and a phylogenetic analysis of the Triticeae.  American Journal of Botany 92:1045–1058.  Abstract
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Helfgott, D. M. and R. J. Mason-Gamer.  2004.  The evolution of North American Elymus (Triticeae, Poaceae) allotetraploids: evidence from phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase gene sequences.  Systematic Botany 29:850–861.  Abstract   Reprint(pdf)

Mason-Gamer, R. J.  2004.  Reticulate evolution, introgression, and intertribal gene capture in an allohexaploid grass.  Systematic Biology 53:25–37.  Abstract   Reprint(pdf)

Cox, R., R. J. Mason-Gamer, C. L. Jackson, and N. Segev.  2004.  Phylogenetic analysis of Sec7-domain-containing Arf nucleotide exchangers. Molecular Biology of the Cell 15:1487–1505.  Abstract

Mason-Gamer, R. J., N. L. Orme, and C. M. Anderson.  2002.  Phylogenetic analysis of North American Elymus and the monogenomic Triticeae (Poaceae) using three chloroplast DNA data sets.  Genome 45:991–1002. Abstract   Reprint(pdf)

Mathews, S., R. E. Spangler, R. J. Mason-Gamer, and E. A. Kellogg.  2002.  Phylogeny of Andropogoneae inferred from phytochrome B, GBSSI, and ndhF.  International Journal of Plant Sciences 163:441–450. Abstract     Reprint(pdf)

Mason-Gamer, R. J.  and D. M. Helfgott.  2002.  Molecular phylogenetic investigation of allopolyploid Elymus in North America.  Pp. 21–26 in Proceedings of the 4th International Triticeae Symposium.  P. Hernández, M. T. Moreno, J. I. Cubero, and A. Martin, eds.  Consejería de Agricultura y Pesca, Junta de Andalucia.  Abstract

Mason-Gamer, R. J.  2001.  Origin of North American Elymus (Poaceae: Triticeae)  allotetraploids based on granule-bound starch synthase gene sequences. Systematic Botany 26:757–768.  Abstract   Reprint (pdf)

Grass Phylogeny Working Group.  2001.  Phylogeny and subfamilial classification of the  grasses (Poaceae).  Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 88:373–457. Abstract

Mason-Gamer, R. J., K. E. Holsinger, and R. K. Jansen.  1999.  Chloroplast DNA variation in Coreopsis nuecensoides and C. nuecensis (Asteraceae), a presumed progenitor-derivative species pair.  Plant Systematics and Evolution 218:5–12.  Abstract     Reprint(pdf)

Mason-Gamer, R. J., C. Weil, and E. A. Kellogg.  1998.  Granule-bound starch synthase:  structure, function, and phylogenetic utility.  Molecular Biology and Evolution  15:1658–1673.  Abstract     Reprint(pdf)

Mason-Gamer, R. J., and E. A. Kellogg.  1996.  Testing for phylogenetic conflict  among molecular data sets in the tribe Triticeae (Gramineae).  Systematic Biology 45:524–545.  Abstract     Reprint(pdf)

Kellogg, E. A., R. Appels, and R. J. Mason-Gamer. When gene trees tell different stories: the diploid genera of the Triticeae. Systematic Botany 21:321–347. Abstract     Reprint(pdf)

Holsinger, K. E., and R. J. Mason-Gamer.  1996.  Hierarchical analysis of nucleotide diversity in spatially structured populations.  Genetics 142:629–639.  Abstract     Reprint(pdf)

Mason-Gamer, R. J., K. E. Holsinger, and R. K. Jansen.  1995.  Chloroplast DNA  haplotype variation within and among populations of Coreopsis grandiflora (Asteraceae). Molecular Biology and Evolution 12:371–381. Abstract     Reprint(pdf)

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