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Paul G Wolf

Paul G Wolf

Professor and Co-Director of Graduate Programs
BSc (1982) University of Leicester, England)
MA (1986, University of Kansas)
Ph.D. (1990) Washington State University)
Faculty: Biology Faculty
Location:  BNR 335
Office Phone:  435 797-4034
Fax:  435 797-1575
Utah State University
Department of Biology
UMC 5305
Logan, UT 84322-5305
Webpage:  http://129.123.92.202/wolflab/wolflab/home.html
Curriculum Vitae

Lab:                   BNR 46
Lab Phone:        797-0052
 

RESEARCH

Link to Paul Wolf's Research Web Page

 

TEACHING (All courses on Blackboard)

Undergraduate level: 
Genetics Laboratory 

Population Genetics
Principles of Genetics

Graduate level:
Evolutionary Genetics
Molecular Population Genetics Laboratory
Principles of Phylogenetic Systematics
Evolutionary Genomics


Seminar courses:
Phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequences
Principles of the coalescent process
The Phylogeny seminar group

 

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Banks, J. A.,  T. Nishiyama, M. Hasebe, J. L. Bowman, M. Gribskov, C. dePamphilis, P. G. Wolf et al. 2011. The Selaginella genome identifies changes in gene content associated with the evolution of vascular plants. Science 332: 960-963.
Der, J. P., M. S. Barker , N. J. Wickett, C. W. dePamphilis, P. G. Wolf. 2011. De novo characterization of the gametophyte transcriptome in bracken fern, Pteridium aquilinum. BMC Genomics 12: 99. 
Wolf P.G., Der J.P., Duffy A.M., Davidson J.B., Grusz A.L., Pryer K.M. 2011. The evolution of chloroplast genes and genomes in ferns. Plant Molecular Biolgy 76: 251-261.
Karol, K. G., Arumuganathan, K., Boore, J. L., Duffy, A. M., Everett, K. D. E., Hall, J. D., Hansen, S. K., Kuehl, J. V., Mandoli, D. F., Mishler, B. D., Olmstead, R. G., Renzaglia, K. S., Wolf, P. G. 2010. Complete plastome sequences of Equisetum arvense and Isoetes flaccida: implications for phylogeny and plastid genome evolution of early land plant lineages. BMC Evol. Biol. 10: 321.
Wolf, P. G., Roper, J. M., Duffy, A. M. 2010. The evolution of chloroplast genome structure in ferns. Genome 53: 731-738.
Oliver, M. J., A. G. Murdock, B. D. Mishler, J. V. Kuehl, J. L. Boore, D. F. Mandoli, K. D. E. Everett, P. G. Wolf, A. M. Duffy, K. G. Karol. 2010. Chloroplast genome sequence of the moss Tortula ruralis: gene content, polymorphism, and structural arrangement relative to other green plant chloroplast genomes. BMC Genomics 2010, 11:143
Barker, M. S. and P. G. Wolf. 2010. Unfurling fern biology in the genomics age. BioScience 60(3): 177-185.
Smith, A. R., K. M. Pryer, E. Schuettpelz, P. Korall, H. Schneider & P. G. Wolf. 2006. A classification for extant ferns. Taxon 55 (3): 705-731
Pryer, K. M., E. Schuettpelz, P.G. Wolf, H. Schneider, A. R. Smith, R. Cranfill. 2004. Phylogeny and evolution of ferns (monilophytes) with a focus on the early leptosporangiate divergences. American Journal of Botany 91: 1557-1581.
Wolf, P. G., C. A. Rowe, R. B. Sinclair, M. Hasebe. 2003. Complete nucleotide sequence of the chloroplast genome from a leptosporangiate fern, Adiantum capillus-veneris L. DNA Research 10 (2): 59-64.
Pryer, K. M., H. Schneider, A. R. Smith, R. Cranfill, P. G. Wolf, J. S. Hunt, and S. D. Sipes. 2001. Horsetails and ferns are a monophyletic group and the closest relatives to seed plants. Nature 409: 618-622 .