User:Aaron Liston

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Aaron Liston

• Aaron Liston
• Oregon State University
• Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology
• Oregon State University
• Corvallis, OR, USA
• Liston:Lab
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Education

• 1990, PhD, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont Graduate University
• 1984, Msc, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
• 1982, Bsc, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Research interests

1. Phylogenomics
2. Chloroplast Evolution
3. Plant Systematics

Recent Publications

1. Meyers, S.C. and A. Liston. 2010. Characterizing the genome of wild relatives of Limnanthes alba (meadowfoam) using massively parallel sequencing. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Molecular Markers in Horticulture. Acta Horticulturae 859:309-314.

2. Parks, M., A. Liston, R. Cronn. 2010. Meeting the challenges of non-referenced genome assembly from short-read sequence data. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Molecular Markers in Horticulture. Acta Horticulturae 859:323-332.

3. Whittall JB, Syring J, Parks M, Buenrostro J, Dick C, Liston A, and Cronn R. Finding a (pine) needle in a haystack: chloroplast genome sequence divergence in rare and widespread pines. Mol Ecol. 2010 Mar;19 Suppl 1:100-14. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04474.x |
4. Parks M, Cronn R, and Liston A. Increasing phylogenetic resolution at low taxonomic levels using massively parallel sequencing of chloroplast genomes. BMC Biol. 2009 Dec 2;7:84. DOI:10.1186/1741-7007-7-84 |
5. Willyard A, Cronn R, and Liston A. Reticulate evolution and incomplete lineage sorting among the ponderosa pines. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2009 Aug;52(2):498-511. DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.02.011 |
6. Cronn R, Liston A, Parks M, Gernandt DS, Shen R, and Mockler T. Multiplex sequencing of plant chloroplast genomes using Solexa sequencing-by-synthesis technology. Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 Nov;36(19):e122. DOI:10.1093/nar/gkn502 |
7. Severns PM and Liston A. Intraspecific chromosome number variation: a neglected threat to the conservation of rare plants. Conserv Biol. 2008 Dec;22(6):1641-7. DOI:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01058.x |
8. Liston A, Parker-Defeniks M, Syring JV, Willyard A, and Cronn R. Interspecific phylogenetic analysis enhances intraspecific phylogeographical inference: a case study in Pinus lambertiana. Mol Ecol. 2007 Sep;16(18):3926-37. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03461.x |
9. Syring J, Farrell K, Businský R, Cronn R, and Liston A. Widespread genealogical nonmonophyly in species of Pinus subgenus Strobus. Syst Biol. 2007 Apr;56(2):163-81. DOI:10.1080/10635150701258787 |
10. Willyard A, Syring J, Gernandt DS, Liston A, and Cronn R. Fossil calibration of molecular divergence infers a moderate mutation rate and recent radiations for pinus. Mol Biol Evol. 2007 Jan;24(1):90-101. DOI:10.1093/molbev/msl131 |

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