I am currently funded by NSF on a project documenting the flora of the southern Philippines. The other two PIs are Peter Fritsch (Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Ft. Worth, TX) and Darin Penneys (University of North Carolina, Wilmington). Another project involves generating complete chloroplast genome sequences for members of the sandalwood order, Santalales. Collaborators include Huei-Jiun Su (National Taiwan University), Joshua Der (California State University Fullerton), Gitte Petersen (Stockholm University, Sweden), Sarah Mathew (Louisiana State University) and Marcos Caraballo (Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.). With over 350 species, Thesium (Thesiaceae) is the largest genus in Santalales. Along with Miguel García (Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid, Spain) we have generated a comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Thesium.
Publications
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- Edlund, M., Anderson, B.M., Su, H.-J., Robison, T., Caraballo-Ortiz, M.A., Der, J.P., Nickrent, D.L., & Petersen, G. 2025. Plastome evolution in Santalales involves relaxed selection prior to loss of ndh genes and major boundary shifts of the inverted repeat. Annals of Botany 135: 515-530. doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcae145
- García, M.A., Mucina, L. & Nickrent, D. L. 2024. A tough nutlet to crack: Resolving the phylogeny of Thesium (Thesiaceae), the largest genus in Santalales. Taxon 73(1):190-236. doi.org/10.1002/tax.13123
- Cai, L., Kreft, H., Taylor, A., Denelle, P., Schrader, J., Essl, F., van Kleunen, M., Pergl, J., Pyšek, P., Stein, A., Winter, M., Barcelona, J.F., Fuentes, N., Inderjit, Karger, D.N., Kartesz, J., Kuprijanov, A., Nishino, M., Nickrent, D., Nowak, A., Patzelt, A., Pelser, P.B., Singh, P., Wieringa, J.J., & Weigelt, P. 2022. Global models and predictions of plant diversity based on advanced machine learning techniques. New Phytologist. doi.org/10.1111/nph.18533
- Nickrent, D. L. 2022. Santalales, order of the sandalwood family. Pp. 717-728, in: The New Natural History of Madagascar, ed. S. M. Goodman. Princeton University Press. 2296 pp.
- Nickrent, D. L. & Rule, M. G. 2022. An evaluation of the genus Cyne (Loranthaceae) including a new species and rediscovery and neotypification of the rare C. quadriangula. Phytotaxa 558(1): 67-80. doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.558.1.4
- Mazo, K. R., D. L. Nickrent, & P. B. Pelser. 2022. Macrosolen zamboangensis (Loranthaceae), a new mistletoe species from Zamboanga Peninsula, Philippines. Webbia. Journal of Plant Taxonomy and Geography 77: 127-134. doi:10.36253/jopt-12339
- Nickrent, D. L. & A. Vartak. 2021. Parasitic flowering plants on postal stamps: Vehicles for learning. Current Science 121: 1538-1548. doi:10.18520/cs/v121/i12/1538-1548
- Su, H.-J., S.-L. Liang, & D. L. Nickrent. 2021. Plastome variation and phylogeny of Taxillus (Loranthaceae). PLoS ONE 16:e0256345. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256345
- Nickrent, D. L., H.-J. Su, R.-Z. Lin, M. P. Devkota, J. -M. Hu, & G. Glatzel. 2021. Examining the needle in the haystack: evolutionary relationships in the mistletoe genus Loranthus Jacq. (Loranthaceae). Systematic Botany 46: 403-415. doi.org/10.1600/036364421X16231785234748
- Nickrent, D. L. 2020. Gymnosiphon syceorosensis (Burmanniaceae), the second new species for the Philippines, to PhytoKeys 146:71-87. doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.146.48321
- Nickrent, D. L. 2020. Parasitic angiosperms: How often and how many? Taxon 69: 5-27. doi.org/10.1002/tax.12195
- Pelser, P. B., D. L. Nickrent, B. W. van Ee, & J. F. Barcelona. 2019. A phylogenetic and biogeographic study of Rafflesia (Rafflesiaceae) in the Philippines: limited dispersal and high island endemism. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 139: 106555. doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106555
- Nickrent, D. L., F. Anderson, & J. Kuijt. 2019. Inflorescence evolution in Santalales: Integrating morphological characters and molecular phylogenetics. American Journal of Botany 106: 402-414. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1250
- Maul, K., M. Krug, D. L. Nickrent, K. F. Müller, D. Quandt, & S. Wicke. 2019. Morphology, geographic distribution and host preference are poor predictors of phylogenetic relatedness in the mistletoe genus Viscum L. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 131: 106-115. doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.041
- Amico, G. C., D. L. Nickrent, & R. Vidal-Russell. 2019. Macroscale analysis of mistletoe host ranges in the Andean-Patagonian forest. Plant Biology 21: 150-156. doi.org/10.1111/plb.12900
