Paul S. Manos, Jack H. Neely Professor
My research emphasizes woody plants, especially the systematics of Fagaceae (the oak family), Juglandaceae (the walnut family), and related wind-pollinated families of flowering plants (Fagales). Our lab uses DNA sequences to generate hypotheses of phylogenetic relationship for inferring morphological character evolution, analyzing patterns of biogeography, and testing species concepts. Students and postdocs have studied the systematics and diversification of the following angiosperm families: Acanthaceae, Nyctaginaceae, Zingiberaceae, Rhamnaceae, Montiaceae, Humiriaceae, Solanaceae, Convolvulaceae, Piperaceae, Ericaceae, and Dilleniaceae. Current research interests involve a range of evolutionary and ecological questions within the Fagaceae. For example, we have reinterpreted cupule evolution in the Fagaceae and calibrated the phylogeny for the American clades of Quercus. Ongoing collaborations with Andrew Hipp, John McVay, Andy Crowl, Antonio González-Rodríguez, and Jeannine Cavender-Bares seek to integrate phylogenetic data with phenotypic traits and functional genes to explain species distributions and to better understand the adaptive nature of introgression in the oaks. Other research interests include the phylogeography of eastern North American woody plants, and patterns of speciation via polyploidy in the true blueberries, Vaccinium section Cyanococcus (with Andy Crowl, Hamid Ashrafi, and Peter Fritsch).
Education:
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1992
M.S., Rutgers University, 1986
B.A., Drew University, 1982
Office Location: 330 Bio Sci Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone: +1 919 660 7358
Email Address: pmanos@duke.edu
Specialties:
Systematics
Research Categories: Systematics and phylogeography of flowering plants
Research Description: My research emphasizes woody plants, especially the systematics of Fagaceae (the oak family), Juglandaceae (the walnut family), and related wind-pollinated families of flowering plants. I generally use DNA sequences to generate hypotheses of phylogenetic relationship for inferring morphological character evolution, analyzing patterns of biogeography, and revising classification. Students in my lab have studied the systematics and diversification of the following angiosperm families: Acanthaceae, Nyctaginaceae, Zingiberaceae, Rhamnaceae, Montiaceae, Humiriaceae, Solanaceae, Convolvulaceae, Piperaceae, and Dilleniaceae. Current research interests involve a range of evolutionary and ecological questions within the Fagaceae, especially the genus Quercus. In collaboration with Chuck Cannon and Sang-Hun Oh, we have reinterpreted cupule evolution in the Fagaceae and calibrated the phylogeny for the entire family. Another collaboration with Andrew Hipp, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, and Jeanne Romero-Severson seeks to integrate phylogenetic data with phenotypic traits and functional genes to explain species distributions in the oaks. Secondary research interests include genetic structure of tree species, phylogeny of neotropical tree communities, and the phylogeography of eastern North American species.
Recent Publications (More Publications) (search)
- Crowl, AA; Fritsch, PW; Tiley, GP; Lynch, NP; Ranney, TG; Ashrafi, H; Manos, PS, A first complete phylogenomic hypothesis for diploid blueberries (Vaccinium section Cyanococcus)., Am J Bot, vol. 109 no. 10 (October, 2022), pp. 1596-1606 [doi] [abs].
- Zhou, B-F; Yuan, S; Crowl, AA; Liang, Y-Y; Shi, Y; Chen, X-Y; An, Q-Q; Kang, M; Manos, PS; Wang, B, Phylogenomic analyses highlight innovation and introgression in the continental radiations of Fagaceae across the Northern Hemisphere., Nature Communications, vol. 13 no. 1 (March, 2022), pp. 1320 [doi] [abs].
- Manos, PS; Hipp, AL, An updated infrageneric classification of the north american oaks (Quercus subgenus quercus): Review of the contribution of phylogenomic data to biogeography and species diversity, Forests, vol. 12 no. 6 (June, 2021) [doi] [abs].
- Crowl, AA; Manos, PS; McVay, JD; Lemmon, AR; Lemmon, EM; Hipp, AL, Uncovering the genomic signature of ancient introgression between white oak lineages (Quercus)., The New Phytologist, vol. 226 no. 4 (May, 2020), pp. 1158-1170 [doi] [abs].
- Hipp, AL; Manos, PS; Hahn, M; Avishai, M; Bodénès, C; Cavender-Bares, J; Crowl, AA; Deng, M; Denk, T; Fitz-Gibbon, S; Gailing, O; González-Elizondo, MS; González-Rodríguez, A; Grimm, GW; Jiang, X-L; Kremer, A; Lesur, I; McVay, JD; Plomion, C; Rodríguez-Correa, H; Schulze, E-D; Simeone, MC; Sork, VL; Valencia-Avalos, S, Genomic landscape of the global oak phylogeny., The New Phytologist, vol. 226 no. 4 (May, 2020), pp. 1198-1212 [doi] [abs].