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Marcial Escudero
PeerJ Editor & Author
2,810 Points

Contributions by role

Author 235
Editor 2,575

Contributions by subject area

Biodiversity
Evolutionary Studies
Plant Science
Conservation Biology
Molecular Biology
Taxonomy
Biogeography
Bioinformatics
Genetics
Forestry
Genomics
Ecology
Marine Biology
Ecosystem Science
Freshwater Biology
Zoology
Population Biology
Agricultural Science
Computational Biology

Marcial Escudero

PeerJ Editor & Author

Summary

Assistant Professor of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of Seville (Spain). Past postdoctoral researcher at Doñana Biological Station (CSIC, Seville, Spain), at the Field Museum of Natural History of Chicago (Illionois, USA) and at The Morton Arboretum (Lisle, Illinois, USA). Past PhD student at University Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain).

Biodiversity Biogeography Bioinformatics Climate Change Biology Conservation Biology Ecology Evolutionary Studies Genetics Genomics Taxonomy

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences
PeerJ Open Advances in Plant Science

Past or current institution affiliations

Universidad de Sevilla

Work details

Assistant Professor

University of Seville
April 2015
Plant Biology and Ecology
Our research interest is mainly focused in the study of biodiversity and diversification and evolution of flowering plants at different evolutionary scales. Biodiversity is not evenly distributed , rather it varies greatly across space (e.g. latitudinal gradients, hotspots, etc.) and across the tree of life (e.g. shifts in diversification rates). My colleagues and I perform studies of molecular phylogenetics and biogeography, phylogeography, cytogenetics, herbarium study, phylogenetic comparative methods etc. (i) to quantify the biodiversity (how many species there are and how they are delimited and related) and (ii) to disentangle the mechanisms that generate and maintain the observed biodiversity.

Websites

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 2
  • Edited 20
May 17, 2021
An integrative monograph of Carex section Schoenoxiphium (Cyperaceae)
Modesto Luceño, Tamara Villaverde, José Ignacio Márquez-Corro, Rogelio Sánchez-Villegas, Enrique Maguilla, Marcial Escudero, Pedro Jiménez-Mejías, Manuel Sánchez-Villegas, Monica Miguez, Carmen Benítez-Benítez, A. Muthama Muasya, Santiago Martín-Bravo
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11336 PubMed 34046256
September 22, 2017
Are diversification rates and chromosome evolution in the temperate grasses (Pooideae) associated with major environmental changes in the Oligocene-Miocene?
Manuel Pimentel, Marcial Escudero, Elvira Sahuquillo, Miguel Ángel Minaya, Pilar Catalán
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3815 PubMed 28951814

Academic Editor on

August 18, 2022
A simple hierarchical model for heterogeneity in the evolutionary correlation on a phylogenetic tree
Liam J. Revell, Ken S. Toyama, D. Luke Mahler
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13910 PubMed 35999851
June 22, 2021
Similar seed dispersal systems by local frugivorous birds in native and alien plant species in a coastal seawall forest
Bin Liu, Guohai Wang, Yuting An, Dandan Xue, Libo Wang, Changhu Lu
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11672 PubMed 34221739
October 7, 2019
Plastome sequences help to improve the systematic position of trinerved Lindera species in the family Lauraceae
Xiangyu Tian, Junwei Ye, Yu Song
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7662 PubMed 31608166
August 7, 2019
Development of genomic simple sequence repeat markers for Glycyrrhiza lepidota and cross-amplification of other Glycyrrhiza species
Jun Hyoung Bang, Chi Eun Hong, Sebastin Raveendar, Kyong Hwan Bang, Kyung Ho Ma, Soon Wook Kwon, Hojin Ryu, Ick Hyun Jo, Jong-Wook Chung
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7479 PubMed 31410317
August 1, 2019
The revised complete mitogenome sequence of the tree frog Polypedatesmegacephalus (Anura, Rhacophoridae) by next-generation sequencing and phylogenetic analysis
An Huang, Shuo Liu, Haijun Li, Hongdi Luo, Qingyong Ni, Yongfang Yao, Huailiang Xu, Bo Zeng, Ying Li, Zhimin Wei, Song Li, Mingwang Zhang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7415 PubMed 31396450
May 15, 2019
Retrotransposon-based genetic variation of Poa annua populations from contrasting climate conditions
Piotr Androsiuk, Justyna Koc, Katarzyna Joanna Chwedorzewska, Ryszard Górecki, Irena Giełwanowska
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6888 PubMed 31143535
December 17, 2018
Influenced but not determined by historical events: genetic, demographic and morphological differentiation in Heleobia ascotanensis from the Chilean Altiplano
Moisés A. Valladares, Marco A. Méndez, Gonzalo A. Collado
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5802 PubMed 30588392
October 17, 2018
Comparative systematics and phylogeography of Quercus Section Cerris in western Eurasia: inferences from plastid and nuclear DNA variation
Marco Cosimo Simeone, Simone Cardoni, Roberta Piredda, Francesca Imperatori, Michael Avishai, Guido W. Grimm, Thomas Denk
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5793 PubMed 30356975
September 21, 2018
How much genetic variation is stored in the endangered and fragmented shrub Tetraena mongolica Maxim?
Yingbiao Zhi, Zhonglou Sun, Ping Sun, Kai Zhao, Yangnan Guo, Dejian Zhang, Baowei Zhang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5645 PubMed 30258729
July 31, 2018
Cytogenetic analyses in Trinomys (Echimyidae, Rodentia), with description of new karyotypes
Naiara Pereira Araújo, Cayo Augusto Rocha Dias, Rodolfo Stumpp, Marta Svartman
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5316 PubMed 30083457
May 29, 2018
Resurrection and typification of Elatine campylosperma (Elatinaceae), a long-forgotten waterwort species
Attila Takács, Attila Molnár V., Balázs A. Lukács, Timea Nagy, Ádám Lovas-Kiss, Andy J. Green, Agnieszka Popiela, Lajos Somlyay
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4913 PubMed 29868294
May 23, 2018
Endozoochory by mallard in New Zealand: what seeds are dispersed and how far?
Riley D. Bartel, Jennifer L. Sheppard, Ádám Lovas-Kiss, Andy J. Green
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4811 PubMed 29844967
March 12, 2018
Phylogenetic surveys on the newt genus Tylototriton sensu lato (Salamandridae, Caudata) reveal cryptic diversity and novel diversification promoted by historical climatic shifts
Bin Wang, Kanto Nishikawa, Masafumi Matsui, Truong Quang Nguyen, Feng Xie, Cheng Li, Janak Raj Khatiwada, Baowei Zhang, Dajie Gong, Yunming Mo, Gang Wei, Xiaohong Chen, Youhui Shen, Daode Yang, Rongchuan Xiong, Jianping Jiang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4384 PubMed 29576937
February 2, 2018
A 250 plastome phylogeny of the grass family (Poaceae): topological support under different data partitions
Jeffery M. Saarela, Sean V. Burke, William P. Wysocki, Matthew D. Barrett, Lynn G. Clark, Joseph M. Craine, Paul M. Peterson, Robert J. Soreng, Maria S. Vorontsova, Melvin R. Duvall
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4299 PubMed 29416954
December 22, 2017
Phylogenic study of Lemnoideae (duckweeds) through complete chloroplast genomes for eight accessions
Yanqiang Ding, Yang Fang, Ling Guo, Zhidan Li, Kaize He, Yun Zhao, Hai Zhao
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4186 PubMed 29302399
December 5, 2017
Microcos magnifica (Sparrmanniaceae) a new species of cloudforest tree from Cameroon
Martin Cheek
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4137 PubMed 29230369
December 5, 2017
SDMtoolbox 2.0: the next generation Python-based GIS toolkit for landscape genetic, biogeographic and species distribution model analyses
Jason L. Brown, Joseph R. Bennett, Connor M. French
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4095 PubMed 29230356
November 23, 2017
Morphological and molecular data confirm the transfer of homostylous species in the typically distylous genus Galianthe (Rubiaceae), and the description of the new species Galianthe vasquezii from Peru and Colombia
Javier Elias Florentín, Andrea Alejandra Cabaña Fader, Roberto Manuel Salas, Steven Janssens, Steven Dessein, Elsa Leonor Cabral
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4012 PubMed 29181275
August 9, 2017
Reproductive biology and nectar secretion dynamics of Penstemon gentianoides (Plantaginaceae): a perennial herb with a mixed pollination system?
Lucía Salas-Arcos, Carlos Lara, Juan Francisco Ornelas
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3636 PubMed 28828248
July 21, 2017
Leaf arrangements are invalid in the taxonomy of orchid species
Anna Jakubska-Busse, Elżbieta Żołubak, Zbigniew Łobas, Edyta Magdalena Gola
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3609 PubMed 28740760