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Leigh A. Johnson Biology Email: Leigh_Johnson@byu.edu 683 WIDB Associate Professor
Herbarium Curator, Stanley L. Welsh Herbarium at the M. L. Bean Museum |
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Plant systematics, molecular and morphological aspects of plant speciation, evolution. |
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Articles Johnson, L. A., L. M. Chan, T. L. Weese, L. D. Busby, and S. McMurry. "Nuclear and cpDNA sequences combined provide strong inference of higher phylogenetic relationships in the phlox family (Polemoniaceae)." Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 48 (2008): 997-1012. Leigh A. Johnson. "Transfer of the Western North American Species Gilia splendens to Saltugilia (Polemoniaceae), and the taxonomic affinities of Gilia scopulorum, Gilia stellata, and Gilia yorkii." Novon. 17 (2007): 193-197. Leigh A. Johnson. "Two new species and a reassessment of synonymy in the Navarretia pubescens complex (Polemoniaceae) of western North America." Novon. 17 (2007): 454-461. Leigh A. Johnson and Robert L. Johnson. "Morphological delimitation and molecular evidence for allopolyploidy in Collomia wilkenii (Polemoniaceae), a new species from northern Nevada." Systematic Botany. 31.2 (2006): 349-360. Terri L. Weese and Leigh A. Johnson. "Utility of NADP-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase for species-level evolutionary inference in angiosperm phylogeny: a case study in Saltugilia." Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 36 (2005): 24-41. Johnson, L. A., K. H. Huish, and J. M. Porter. "Seed surface sculpturing and its systematic significance in Gilia (Polemoniaceae) and segregate genera." International Journal of Plant Sciences. 165 (2004): 153-172. Johnson, L. A. "Polemoniaceae." The Tree of Life web project. Apr. 2004. <website> Weese, T. L., and L. A. JOHNSON. "Saltugilia latimeri: a new species of Polemoniaceae." Madroño. 48 (2001): 198-204. JOHNSON, L. A. and T. L. Weese. "Geographic distribution, morphological and molecular characterization, and relationships of Lathrocasis tenerrima (Polemoniaceae)." Western North American Naturalist. 60 (2000): 355-373. Porter, J. M. and L. A. JOHNSON. "A phylogenetic classification of Polemoniaceae." Aliso. 19 (2000): 55-91. JOHNSON, L. A., D. E. Soltis, and P. S. Soltis. "Phylogenetic affinities of Polemoniaceae inferred from nuclear ribosomal 18S DNA sequences." Plant Systematics and Evolution. 214 (1999): 65-89. Multimedia Johnson, L. A. and L. B. Glazier. Collomia (branch page on the Tree of Life Web Project). Dec. 2008. <website> |
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| Courses Taught |
| InBio 331, Plant Diversity (team taught with Blaine Furniss) InBio 430, Plant Classification InBio 510, Advanced Plant Taxonomy InBio 512, Angiosperm Phylogeny |
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