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. PDF
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. PDF
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. PDF
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. PDF
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. PDF
Steele, P. R. 2010. Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Psiguria (Cucurbitaceae). Systematic Botany 35: 341–357. PDF
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. PDF
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. PDF