Sandra Knapp

Summary

Affiliation: The Natural History Museum
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Tobacco to tomatoes: a phylogenetic perspective on fruit diversity in the Solanaceae
    Sandra Knapp
    Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
    J Exp Bot 53:2001-22. 2002
  2. ncbi Four new vining species of Solanum (Dulcamaroid clade) from Montane habitats in tropical America
    Sandra Knapp
    Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 5:e10502. 2010
  3. ncbi Genetics. Celebrating spuds
    Sandra Knapp
    Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK
    Science 321:206-7. 2008
  4. ncbi Anthropology. Some like it hot
    Sandra Knapp
    Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
    Science 315:946-7. 2007
  5. ncbi Rarity, species richness, and the threat of extinction--are plants the same as animals?
    Sandra Knapp
    Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS Biol 9:e1001067. 2011
  6. ncbi Stability or stasis in the names of organisms: the evolving codes of nomenclature
    Sandra Knapp
    Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 359:611-22. 2004
  7. ncbi Ecology. Refuting refugia?
    Sandra Knapp
    Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK
    Science 300:71-2. 2003
  8. ncbi On 'various contrivances': pollination, phylogeny and flower form in the Solanaceae
    Sandra Knapp
    Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 365:449-60. 2010
  9. ncbi Dynamic diversity
    Sandra Knapp
    Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
    Nature 422:475. 2003
  10. ncbi Spreading the word
    Sandra Knapp
    Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
    Nature 446:261-2. 2007

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Publications17

  1. ncbi Tobacco to tomatoes: a phylogenetic perspective on fruit diversity in the Solanaceae
    Sandra Knapp
    Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
    J Exp Bot 53:2001-22. 2002
    ..Finally, several key areas of future comparative, phylogenetic investigation into fruit type evolution in the family are highlighted...
  2. ncbi Four new vining species of Solanum (Dulcamaroid clade) from Montane habitats in tropical America
    Sandra Knapp
    Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 5:e10502. 2010
    ..I am currently preparing a worldwide monograph of these two groups, comprising some 70 species...
  3. ncbi Genetics. Celebrating spuds
    Sandra Knapp
    Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK
    Science 321:206-7. 2008
  4. ncbi Anthropology. Some like it hot
    Sandra Knapp
    Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
    Science 315:946-7. 2007
  5. ncbi Rarity, species richness, and the threat of extinction--are plants the same as animals?
    Sandra Knapp
    Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
    PLoS Biol 9:e1001067. 2011
    ..Biology, geography, and history all are important factors in risk, and the study poses many questions about how we categorise and assess species for conservation priorities...
  6. ncbi Stability or stasis in the names of organisms: the evolving codes of nomenclature
    Sandra Knapp
    Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 359:611-22. 2004
    ....
  7. ncbi Ecology. Refuting refugia?
    Sandra Knapp
    Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK
    Science 300:71-2. 2003
  8. ncbi On 'various contrivances': pollination, phylogeny and flower form in the Solanaceae
    Sandra Knapp
    Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 365:449-60. 2010
    ..More studies of pollinators in the field are a priority...
  9. ncbi Dynamic diversity
    Sandra Knapp
    Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
    Nature 422:475. 2003
  10. ncbi Spreading the word
    Sandra Knapp
    Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
    Nature 446:261-2. 2007
  11. ncbi Evolution of rDNA in Nicotiana allopolyploids: a potential link between rDNA homogenization and epigenetics
    Ales Kovarik
    Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, CZ 61265 Brno, Czech Republic
    Ann Bot 101:815-23. 2008
    ..We review patterns of evolution in rDNA in the angiosperm genus Nicotiana to determine consequences of allopolyploidy on these processes...
  12. ncbi Phylogenetic relationships in Nicotiana (Solanaceae) inferred from multiple plastid DNA regions
    James J Clarkson
    Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3DS, UK
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 33:75-90. 2004
    ..Nicotiana is likely to have evolved in southern South America east of the Andes and later dispersed to Africa, Australia, and southwestern North America...
  13. ncbi Biodiversity hotspots through time: an introduction
    Katherine J Willis
    Long term Ecology Laboratory, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 362:169-74. 2007
    ..Lateral thinking, across knowledge systems and with open-mindness about bridging data gaps, will be necessary for our accumulating knowledge about our planet's past to be brought to bear on our attempts to conserve it in the future...
  14. ncbi Molecular systematics, GISH and the origin of hybrid taxa in Nicotiana (Solanaceae)
    Mark W Chase
    Molecular Systematics Section, Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3DS, UK
    Ann Bot (Lond) 92:107-27. 2003
    ....
  15. ncbi Long-term genome diploidization in allopolyploid Nicotiana section Repandae (Solanaceae)
    James J Clarkson
    Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gasrdens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3DS, UK
    New Phytol 168:241-52. 2005
    ..In Nicotiana, 4.5 Myr of allopolyploid evolution renders genomic in situ hybridization (GISH) unsuitable for the complete resolution of parental genomes...
  16. ncbi Comparative genomics and repetitive sequence divergence in the species of diploid Nicotiana section Alatae
    K Yoong Lim
    School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK
    Plant J 48:907-19. 2006
    ..This rapid rate of divergence is analogous to that found in polyploid species, and is therefore, in plants, not only associated with polyploidy...
  17. ncbi The absence of Arabidopsis-type telomeres in Cestrum and closely related genera Vestia and Sessea (Solanaceae): first evidence from eudicots
    Eva Sykorova
    School of Biological Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, UK
    Plant J 34:283-91. 2003
    ..We found that the Cestrum species investigated had particularly large mean chromosome sizes. We discuss whether this is a consequence of alternative telomere end maintenance systems...