User:Craig F. Barrett

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 * Craig F. Barrett
 * Cornell University
 * Department of Plant Biology
 * Ithaca, NY, USA
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I currently work as a postdoctoral researcher in Jerry Davis' lab at Cornell University, on the Monocot Tree of Life Project.

Education

 * 2010, PhD, The Ohio State University
 * 2004, MS, State University of New York-Binghamton
 * 2002, BA, Hartwick College

Research interests

 * 1) Phylogeography, population genetics, speciation, and species delimitation
 * 2) Plant-microbial coevolution and evolutionary ecology (legumes-rhizobia, orchids-fungi, etc.)
 * 3) Systematics of monocots (Arecales, Zingiberales, Alismatales)

Publications
Barrett, C. F., and J. V. Freudenstein. An integrative approach to delimiting species and evolutionarily significant units in a rare but widespread mycoheterotrophic orchid. Molecular Ecology (In review).

Barrett, C. F., Freudenstein, J. V., Taylor, D. L., and U. Kõljalg. 2010. Rangewide analysis of fungal associations in the fully mycoheterotrophic Corallorhiza striata complex (Orchidaceae) reveals extreme specificity on ectomycorrhizal Tomentella (Thelephoraceae) across North America. American Journal of Botany 97: 628-643.

Freudenstein, J. V., and C. F. Barrett. 2010. Mycoheterotrophy and diversity in Orchidaceae with a focus on Corallorhiza. In: Diversity, Phylogeny, and Evolution in the Monocots. Seberg, O., Petersen, G., Barford, A., and J. I. Davis [Eds.]. Aarhus University Press, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Barrett, C. F., and J. V. Freudenstein. 2009. Patterns of morphological and plastid DNA variation in the Corallorhiza striata species complex (Orchidaceae, Epidendroideae). Systematic Botany 34: 496-504.

Barrett, C. F., and J. V. Freudenstein. 2008. Molecular evolution of rbcL in the mycoheterotrophic Coralroot orchids (Corallorhiza Gagnebin: Orchidaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47: 665-679. "pmid=18374606"

Barrett, C. F., and M. A. Parker. 2006. Coexistence of Burkholderia, Cupriavidus [Ralstonia], and Rhizobium sp. nodule bacteria on two native Mimosa spp. from central Pacific Costa Rica. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72: 1198-1206.

Barrett, C. F., and M. A. Parker. 2005. Prevalence of Burkholderia sp. nodule symbionts on four mimosoid legumes from Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 28: 57-65.

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