William J. Baker

The paper investigates the evolution and reversal of woodiness in flowering plants, finding that drought supports persistence while reduced frost drives gains and increased frost leads to loss.

The paper introduces CAPTUS, a phylogenomics pipeline that efficiently handles mixed sequencing data, revealing topological conflicts in the evolution of Cucurbitales.

This study reconstructs the evolutionary history of palms using 1,033 nuclear genes and fossil evidence, finding the family originated in the Early Cretaceous and diversified rapidly.

The paper constructs the largest dated phylogenetic tree for euphyllophytes by integrating backbone phylogenies and species-level trees, revealing increased topological and age estimation uncertainty in recent times.

The paper investigates factors driving uneven angiosperm diversity in the Canary Islands, finding trait-dependent diversification and spatio-ecological limits are key, not lineage age.

The paper tests how genome size, adaptation, and allometry interact to drive speciation in tropical palms using phylogenetic and trait data.

This study updates the classification of Urticaceae by integrating molecular and morphological data, identifying new tribes and genera, and proposing taxonomic revisions.

The paper develops an AI model to predict successful genomic DNA sequencing from herbarium specimens using morphological, metadata, and DNA quantity features.

This study presents a comprehensive phylogenomic analysis of Magnoliidae, updating its classification by resolving previously ambiguous relationships and recognizing 21 families.

This study constructs a nuclear phylogeny of grasses using genome-scale data, showing agreement with plastome phylogeny and evidence for repeated reticulation events.

This study reconstructs the phylogeny of orchids using genomic data and infers their geographic origin and speciation patterns, finding their origin in Laurasia and recent speciation in Central America.

This study analyzes Poales diversification, showing parallel evolution into open and closed habitats across time and space, with distinct patterns in major families.

The paper improves locus recovery by expanding the Angiosperms353 probe set with more transcriptome data, increasing on-target reads and loci recovery.