Publications (for P. Roxanne Kellar, Ph.D. formerly Steele)
Ahrendsen, D.L., S.K. Aust, and P.R. Kellar. 2015. Biodiversity assessment using next- generation sequencing: comparison of phylogenetic and functional diversity between Nebraska grasslands. Plant Systematics and Evolution, DOI 10.1007/s00606-015-1246-6
Aust, S.K., D.L. Ahrendsen, and P.R. Kellar. 2015. Biodiversity assessment among two Nebraska prairies: a comparison between traditional and phylogenetic diversity indices. Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e5403 doi: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e5403.
Kellar, P.R., D.L. Ahrendsen, S.K. Aust, A.R. Jones, and J.C. Pires. 2015. Biodiversity comparison among phylogenetic diversity metrics and between three North American prairies. Applications in Plant Sciences 3 (7): 1400108. DOI: 10.3732/apps.1400108.
Steele, P.R., K.L. Hertweck, D. Mayfield, M.R. McKain, J. Leebens-Mack, and J.C. Pires. 2012. Quality and quantity of data recovered from massively parallel sequencing: Examples in Asparagales and Poaceae. American Journal of Botany 99: 330–348.
Steele, P. R. and J. C. Pires. 2011. Biodiversity assessment: state-of-the-art techniques in phylogenomics and species identification. American Journal of Botany 98: 415–425.
Givnish, T.J., M. Ames, J.R. McNeal, M.R. McKain, P.R. Steele, C.W. dePamphilis, S.W. Graham, J.C. Pires, D.W. Stevenson, W.B. Zomlefer, B.G. Briggs, M.R. Duvall, M.J. Moore, J.M. Heaney, D.E. Soltis, P.S. Soltis, K.Thiele, and J.H. Leebens-Mack. 2010. Assembling the tree of the monocotyledons: plastome sequence phylogeny and evolution of Poales. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 97: 584–616.
Steele, P. R. 2010. Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Psiguria (Cucurbitaceae). Systematic Botany 35: 341–357.
Steele, P.R., L.E. Gilbert, L. Friar, and R.K. Jansen. 2010. Molecular systematics of the Neotropical genus Psiguria (Cucurbitaceae). American Journal of Botany 97: 156–173.
Steele, P.R., M. Guisinger-Bellian, C.R. Linder, and R.K. Jansen. 2008. Phylogenetic utility of 141 low-copy nuclear regions in taxa at different taxonomic levels in two distantly related families of rosids. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48(3):1013–1026.