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This section contains my posts on botany and announcements of scientific publications

Posts from my Blog

• A new species of Pisonia birdcatcher tree discovered in the island of Jamaica

• The infamous Dodder (Cuscuta, Convolvulaceae): a fascinating parasitic vine

• The parasitic Love Vine, Cassytha filiformis (Lauraceae)

Press Releases and Scientific Publications

• Studying chloroplast genomes across Santalales, a lineage of plants with many parasitic species (2024)

• Describing the structure of chloroplast genomes in parasitic love vines (2023)

• A newly described species of mistletoe from the Philippines (2022)

• New study traces back the progenitor genomes causing COVID-19 and geospatial spread (2021)

• Data analysis identifies the “mother” of all SARS-CoV-2 genomes (2021)

• Redefining the diversity of birdcatcher trees from the Pacific and Indian Oceans (2020)

• A new species of mistletoe-specialist bird from Borneo (2019)

• Mistletoe specimens stored in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (2019)

• Mistletoe samples preserved in vials filled with alcohol (2019)

• From pagan magic to cancer cure? The mysteries of mistletoe (2018)

• Two new species of birdcatcher trees from Puerto Rico (2017)

• Seed dispersal ecology of mistletoes in Puerto Rico (2017)