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Alastair Culham
PeerJ Editor & Author
4,640 Points

Contributions by role

Author 100
Editor 4,540

Contributions by subject area

Evolutionary Studies
Molecular Biology
Plant Science
Genomics
Biodiversity
Biogeography
Conservation Biology
Ecology
Spatial and Geographic Information Science
Bioinformatics
Agricultural Science
Parasitology
Environmental Impacts
Genetics
Taxonomy
Medical Genetics
Computational Biology
Forestry
Population Biology

Alastair Culham

PeerJ Editor & Author

Summary

Associate Professor of Botany and Curator of the University of Reading Herbarium (RNG).

Biodiversity Biogeography Bioinformatics Climate Change Biology Ecology Genomics Plant Science Taxonomy

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Reading

Work details

Associate Professor of Botany

University of Reading
January 1990
Biological Sciences
Curator of the University of Reading Herbarium

Websites

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  • Google Scholar
  • Culham research group Blog

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
  • Edited 30
November 12, 2021
Comparative plastomics of Amaryllidaceae: inverted repeat expansion and the degradation of the ndh genes in Strumaria truncata Jacq.
Kálmán Könyves, Jordan Bilsborrow, Maria D. Christodoulou, Alastair Culham, John David
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12400 PubMed 34824912

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April 14, 2023
Phylogenetic relationship and comparative analysis of the main Bupleuri Radix species in China
Ping Wang, Jiqing Bai, Xue Li, Tiantian Liu, Yumeng Yan, Yichang Yang, Huaizhu Li
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15157 PubMed 37077311
August 29, 2022
Accelerating the discovery of rare tree species in Amazonian forests: integrating long monitoring tree plot data with metabolomics and phylogenetics for the description of a new species in the hyperdiverse genus Inga Mill
Juan Ernesto Guevara Andino, Consuelo Hernández, Renato Valencia, Dale Forrister, María-José Endara
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13767 PubMed 36061752
April 12, 2022
Identification of the original plants of cultivated Bupleuri Radix based on DNA barcoding and chloroplast genome analysis
Gaixia Zhang, Hui Wang, Linchun Shi, Yang Liu, Ruyu Yao, Chun Sui, Chengmin Yang, Hongliang Ji, Qiuling Wang, Jianhe Wei
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13208 PubMed 35433122
April 7, 2022
Putting small and big pieces together: a genome assembly approach reveals the largest Lamiid plastome in a woody vine
Luiz Henrique M. Fonseca, Alison G. Nazareno, Verônica A. Thode, Alexandre R. Zuntini, Lúcia G. Lohmann
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13207 PubMed 35415013
November 15, 2021
Preliminary placement and new records of an overlooked Amazonian tree, Christiana mennegae (Malvaceae)
Rafael G. Barbosa-Silva, Thales Silva Coutinho, Santelmo Vasconcelos, Delmo Fonseca da Silva, Guilherme Oliveira, Daniela C. Zappi
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12244 PubMed 34820158
June 1, 2021
Alien plants of Europe: introduction pathways, gateways and time trends
Margarita Arianoutsou, Ioannis Bazos, Anastasia Christopoulou, Yannis Kokkoris, Andreas Zikos, Sevasti Zervou, Pinelopi Delipetrou, Ana Cristina Cardoso, Ivan Deriu, Eugenio Gervasini, Konstantinos Tsiamis
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11270 PubMed 34141463
March 26, 2021
A taxonomically detailed and large-scale view of the factors affecting the distribution and abundance of tree species planted in private gardens of Christchurch city, New Zealand
Wei Quan, Jon J. Sullivan, Colin D. Meurk, Glenn H. Stewart
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10588 PubMed 33828902
March 8, 2021
Two centuries from species discovery to diagnostic characters: molecular and morphological evidence for narrower species limits in the widespread SW Australian Anarthria gracilis complex (Restionaceae s.l./Anarthriaceae, Poales)
Constantin I. Fomichev, Terry D. Macfarlane, Carmen M. Valiejo-Roman, Tahir H. Samigullin, Galina V. Degtjareva, Barbara G. Briggs, Dmitry D. Sokoloff
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10935 PubMed 33732546
March 5, 2021
Comparative analysis of complete plastid genomes from Lilium lankongense Franchet and its closely related species and screening of Lilium-specific primers
Danmei Su, Fumin Xie, Haiying Liu, Dengfeng Xie, Juan Li, Xingjin He, Xianlin Guo, Songdong Zhou
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10964 PubMed 33717697
January 4, 2021
Limited effect of a highway barrier on the genetic structure of a gypsum soil specialist
Irene Martín-Rodríguez, Adrián Escudero, Alfredo García-Fernández
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10533 PubMed 33505788
October 15, 2020
Conflicting phylogenetic signals in plastomes of the tribe Laureae (Lauraceae)
Tian-Wen Xiao, Yong Xu, Lu Jin, Tong-Jian Liu, Hai-Fei Yan, Xue-Jun Ge
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10155 PubMed 33088627
May 26, 2020
At the crossroads of botanical collections and molecular genetics laboratory: a preliminary study of obtaining amplifiable DNA from moss herbarium material
Marta Saługa
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9109 PubMed 32518721
April 22, 2020
Long-reads reveal that Rhododendron delavayi plastid genome contains extensive repeat sequences, and recombination exists among plastid genomes of photosynthetic Ericaceae
Huie Li, Qiqiang Guo, Qian Li, Lan Yang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9048 PubMed 32351791
April 7, 2020
ECuADOR—Easy Curation of Angiosperm Duplicated Organellar Regions, a tool for cleaning and curating plastomes assembled from next generation sequencing pipelines
Angelo D. Armijos Carrion, Damien D. Hinsinger, Joeri S. Strijk
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8699 PubMed 32292644
February 13, 2020
The newly developed genomic-SSR markers uncover the genetic characteristics and relationships of olive accessions
Danyang Li, Cui Long, Xiaoming Pang, Delu Ning, Tao Wu, Mingliang Dong, Xiaoning Han, Huihong Guo
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8573 PubMed 32095373
December 17, 2019
Exploring snake occurrence records: Spatial biases and marginal gains from accessible social media
Benjamin M. Marshall, Colin T. Strine
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8059 PubMed 31871833
November 7, 2019
Genome-wide identification and characterization of the MADS-box gene family in Salix suchowensis
Yanshu Qu, Changwei Bi, Bing He, Ning Ye, Tongming Yin, Li-an Xu
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8019 PubMed 31720123
October 7, 2019
Bees may drive the reproduction of four sympatric cacti in a vanishing coastal mediterranean-type ecosystem
Pablo C. Guerrero, Claudia A. Antinao, Beatriz Vergara-Meriño, Cristian A. Villagra, Gastón O. Carvallo
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7865 PubMed 31608183
September 24, 2019
The sugarcane mitochondrial genome: assembly, phylogenetics and transcriptomics
Dyfed Lloyd Evans, Thandekile Thandiwe Hlongwane, Shailesh V. Joshi, Diego M. Riaño Pachón
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7558 PubMed 31579570
September 20, 2019
Complete chloroplast genome sequence of the mangrove species Kandelia obovata and comparative analyses with related species
Yong Yang, Ying Zhang, Yukai Chen, Juma Gul, Jingwen Zhang, Qiang Liu, Qing Chen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7713 PubMed 31579601
August 13, 2019
Grazing effects on woody and herbaceous plant biodiversity on a limestone mountain in northern Tunisia
David Anthony Kirk, Katherine Hébert, Frank Barrie Goldsmith
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7296 PubMed 31428536
July 9, 2019
Complete chloroplast genomes of medicinally important Teucrium species and comparative analyses with related species from Lamiaceae
Arif Khan, Sajjad Asaf, Abdul Latif Khan, Adil Khan, Ahmed Al-Harrasi, Omar Al-Sudairy, Noor Mazin AbdulKareem, Nadiya Al-Saady, Ahmed Al-Rawahi
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7260 PubMed 31328036
July 3, 2019
Monitoring the critically endangered Clanwilliam cedar with freely available Google Earth imagery
Jasper A. Slingsby, Peter W. O. Slingsby
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7005 PubMed 31308994
June 17, 2019
Identification and characterization of Gypsophila paniculata color morphs in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, MI, USA
Marisa L. Yang, Emma Rice, Hailee Leimbach-Maus, Charlyn G. Partridge
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7100 PubMed 31245177
March 11, 2019
A systematic comparison of eight new plastome sequences from Ipomoea L
Jianying Sun, Xiaofeng Dong, Qinghe Cao, Tao Xu, Mingku Zhu, Jian Sun, Tingting Dong, Daifu Ma, Yonghua Han, Zongyun Li
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6563 PubMed 30881765
February 20, 2019
Characterization of the complete chloroplast genomes of five Populus species from the western Sichuan plateau, southwest China: comparative and phylogenetic analyses
Dan Zong, Anpei Zhou, Yao Zhang, Xinlian Zou, Dan Li, Anan Duan, Chengzhong He
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6386 PubMed 30809432
January 25, 2019
Convergent origin of the narrowly lanceolate leaf in the genus Aster—with special reference to an unexpected discovery of a new Aster species from East China
Guo-Jin Zhang, Hai-Hua Hu, Tian-Gang Gao, Michael G. Gilbert, Xiao-Feng Jin
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6288 PubMed 30701132
November 7, 2018
Hemiparasitic plants increase alpine plant richness and evenness but reduce arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal colonization in dominant plant species
Michael McKibben, Jeremiah A. Henning
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5682 PubMed 30425882
July 13, 2018
Genetic diversity and population structure of the endangered basal angiosperm Brasenia schreberi (Cabombaceae) in China
Zhi-Zhong Li, Andrew W. Gichira, Qing-Feng Wang, Jin-Ming Chen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5296 PubMed 30013859
May 11, 2018
Westwards and northwards dispersal of Triosteum himalayanum (Caprifoliaceae) from the Hengduan Mountains region based on chloroplast DNA phylogeography
Hai-rui Liu, Qing-bo Gao, Fa-qi Zhang, Gulzar Khan, Shi-long Chen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4748 PubMed 29770273