Dr James Clark
PhD, MSc, BSc
Current positions
Research Associate
School of Biological Sciences
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Research interests
Whole genome duplication (palaeopolyploidy) and the evolution of the land plant body plan
Publications
Recent publications
07/02/2022An estimate of the deepest branches of the tree of life from ancient vertically-evolving genes
eLife
Divergent evolutionary trajectories of bryophytes and tracheophytes from a complex common ancestor of land plants
Nature Ecology and Evolution
The origin and evolution of stomata
Current Biology
Origin of horsetails and the role of whole-genome duplication in plant macroevolution
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Evolution of metazoan morphological disparity
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Thesis
Whole Genome Duplication and the Evolution of the Land Plant Body Plan
Supervisors
Award date
23/01/2019
Related people
Professor Philip Donoghue
Professor of Palaeobiology
School of Earth Sciences
Professor Alistair Hetherington
Melville Wills Chair in Botany
School of Biological Sciences
Professor Davide Pisani
Professor of Phylogenomics
School of Biological Sciences
Dr Tom Williams
Associate Professor in Molecular Evolution
School of Biological Sciences