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Research Interests
Professor Hufford is interested in flowering plant systematics and evolution. His research applies phylogenetic systematics to resolve evolutionary relationships and explore diversification processes. He and his students apply molecular markers in phylogenetic studies of various angiosperm groups. Phylogenetic results are used to explore patterns and processes of diversification of plant form, ecology, and geography. Resolving taxonomic problems and revising classifications are also key goals of their phylogenetic research. An area of emphasis in the Hufford laboratory is plant phylogeography in the American West. This research examines the geographic structure of genetic diversity to understand landscape, demographic, and temporal forces that have shaped plant diversity in the West.
Representative Publications
Brokaw, J. and L. Hufford, 2010. Origins and introgression of
polyploid species in Mentzelia section Trachyphytum (Loasaceae).
American Journal of Botany 97: 1457-1473.
Brokaw, J. M. and L. Hufford. 2010. Phylogeny, introgression, and
character evolution of diploid species in Mentzelia section
Trachyphytum (Loasaceae). Systematic Botany 35: 601-617.
Hufford, L. 2003. Homology and developmental transformation:
models for the origins of the staminodes of Loasaceae subfamily
Loasoideae. International Journal of Plant Sciences 164 (5
supplement): S409-S439.
Hufford, L. and M. McMahon, 2003. Beyond morphoclines and trends:
the elements of diversity and the phylogenetic patterning of
morphology. Pp. 165-186 in Deep Morphology: Toward a Renaissance
of Morphology in Plant Systematics, T. F. Stuessy, V. Mayer & E.
Hörandl (eds). Koeltz, Königstein.
Marlowe, K. and L. Hufford. 2007. Taxonomy and biogeography of
Gaillardia (Asteraceae): A phylogenetic analysis. Systematic
Botany 32: 208-226.
Marlowe, K. and L. Hufford. 2008. Evolution of Synthyris section
Dissecta (Plantaginaceae) on Northern Rocky Mountain sky islands.
American Journal of Botany 95: 381-392.
McMahon, M., and L. Hufford, 2002. Developmental morphology and
structural homology of corolla-androecium synorganization in the
tribe Amorpheae (Fabaceae: Papilionoideae). American Journal of
Botany 89: 1884-1898.
McMahon, M., and L. Hufford, 2005. Evolution and development in
the amorphoid clade (Amorpheae: Papilionoideae: Fabaceae): Organ
loss and dedifferentiation. International Journal of Plant Sciences
166: 383-396.
Nazaire, M., and L. Hufford. 2012. A broad phylogenetic analysis
of Boraginaceae: implications for the relationships of Mertensia.
Systematic Botany 37: 758-783.
O'Quinn, R. and L. Hufford, 2005. Molecular systematics of
Montieae (Portulacaceae): Implications for taxonomy, biogeography
and ecology. Systematic Botany 30: 314-331.
Schenk, J. J. and L. Hufford. 2010. Effects of substitutions
models on divergence time estimates: an empirical study of model
uncertainty using Cornales. Systematic Botany 35: 578-592.