Selected Publications
Ree, R. H. and S. A. Smith. 2008. Maximum-likelihood inference of geographic range evolution by dispersal, local extinction, and cladogenesis. Systematic Biology 57(1):4-414. [PDF]
Sargent, R. D., C. Goodwillie, S. Kalisz, and R. H. Ree. 2007. Phylogenetic evidence for a flower size and number trade-off. American Journal of Botany 94:2059-2062.
Kalisz, S., R. H. Ree, and R. D. Sargent, 2006. Linking floral symmetry genes to breeding system evolution. Trends in Plant Science 11(12):568-573.[PDF]
Fine, P. V. A. and R. H. Ree. 2006. Evidence for a time-integrated species-area effect on the latitudinal gradient in tree diversity. American Naturalist 168(6):786-804. [PDF]
Ree, R. H., B. R. Moore, C. O. Webb, and M. J. Donoghue. 2005. A likelihood framework for inferring the evolution of geographic range on phylogenetic trees. Evolution 59(11):2299-2311. [PDF]
Ree, R. H. 2005. Phylogeny and the evolution of floral diversity in Pedicularis (Orobanchaceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences 166(4):595-613. [PDF]
Ree, R. H. 2005. Detecting the historical signature of key innovations using stochastic models of character evolution and cladogenesis. Evolution 59(2):257-265. [PDF]
Cronk, Q. C. B., J. Whitton, R. H. Ree, and I. E. P. Taylor, eds. 2004. Molecular Genetics and Ecology of Plant Adaptation. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario. (Proceedings of an international workshop held December 11-13, 2002, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada).
Ree, R. H., H. L. Citerne, M. Lavin and Q. C. B. Cronk. 2004. Heterogeneous selection on LEGCYC paralogs in relation to flower morphology and the phylogeny of Lupinus (Leguminosae). Molecular Biology and Evolution 21(2):321-331. [PDF]
Sanderson, M., A. C. Driskell, R. H. Ree, O. Eulenstein and S. Langley. 2003. Obtaining maximal concatenated phylogenetic data sets from large sequence databases. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20:1036-1042.
Donoghue, M. J. and R. H. Ree. 2000. Homoplasy and developmental constraint: a model and an example from plants. American Zoologist 40(5):759-769. [PDF]
Ree, R. H. and M. J. Donoghue. 1999. Inferring rates of change in flower symmetry in asterid angiosperms. Systematic Biology 48(3):633-641. [PDF]
Donoghue, M. J., R. H. Ree and D. A. Baum. 1998. Phylogeny and the evolution of flower symmetry in the Asteridae. Trends in Plant Sciences 3(8):311-317. [PDF]
Ree, R. H. and M. J. Donoghue. 1998. Step matrices and the interpretation of homoplasy. Systematic Biology 47(4):582-588. [PDF]
Ree, R. H. 1997. Pollen flow, fecundity, and the adaptive significance of heterostyly in Palicourea padifolia. Biotropica 29(3):298-308.
Thursday, 21 February 2008