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Paul S. Manos, Professor of Biology

Paul S. Manos

Please note: Paul has left the "Duke Herbarium" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

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).

Contact Info:
Office Location:  330 Bio Sci Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:  (919) 660-7358
Email Address: send me a message

Teaching (Spring 2024):

  • BIOLOGY 207.01, ORGANISMAL EVOLUTION Synopsis
    FFSC 4233, MWF 10:20 AM-11:10 AM
  • LS 760.01, SELECTED TOPICS Synopsis
    GLS 2114 0101, Th 06:00 PM-09:00 PM
Teaching (Fall 2024):

  • BIOLOGY 341L.001, PLANT COMMUNITIES Synopsis
    Bio Sci 060, F 11:45 AM-12:35 PM; Bio Sci 060, W 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
  • BIOLOGY 341L.01L, PLANT COMMUNITIES Synopsis
    Bio Sci 060, F 01:25 PM-04:55 PM
Education:

Ph.D.Cornell University1992
M.S.Rutgers University1986
B.A.Drew University1982
Specialties:

Systematics
Keywords:

Acanthaceae • Adaptation • Adaptation, Biological • Animals • Base Sequence • Bayes Theorem • Bees • Biological Evolution • Birds • Ceanothus • Cell Nucleus • Classification • Climate Change • DNA • DNA Restriction Enzymes • DNA, Chloroplast • DNA, Plant • DNA, Ribosomal • DNA, Ribosomal Spacer • Ecology • Environment • Feeding Behavior • Flowers • Fossils • Fruit • Genes, Plant • Geography • Host-Parasite Interactions • Hybridization • Ipomoea • Juglandaceae • Likelihood Functions • Markov Chains • Models, Genetic • Molecular Sequence Data • Monte Carlo Method • Muser Mentor • North America • Orobanchaceae • Phylogeny • Pollen • Pollination • Population Density • Reproductive Isolation • Restriction Mapping • Rhamnaceae • RNA, Ribosomal, 5.8S • Sequence Alignment • Sequence Analysis, DNA • Sequence Homology • Software • Soil • Time Factors • Trees

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

  • Eric Green  
  • José Eduardo Meireles  
  • Dylan O. Burge  
  • Erin A Tripp  
  • Erica Tsai  
  • N Douglas  
Postdocs Mentored

  • S-H Oh (December 26, 2002 - June 26, 2007)  
  • C H Cannon (2000/12-2001/12)  
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. 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]
  2. 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]
  3. 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]
  4. 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]
  5. 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]


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