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Ed Biffin

State Herbarium of South AustraliaORCID 0000-0002-6582-716XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Evolutionary Biology· 2 Molecular Biology· 1

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Organism:plant (other)· 3 Assay:DNA methylation· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:phylogenetics / evolution· 2 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Assay:metagenomics· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Phylogenomic analyses of the Austral podocarps (Podocarpus: Podocarpaceae) reveals unlikely hybrid ancestry of a New Zealand species

Raees Khan, Ed Biffin, John Godfrey Conran, Robert S. Hill, Kor‐jent van Dijk, Michelle Waycott

The paper identifies a hybrid lineage in the Austral podocarps using phylogenomic analyses, revealing that Podocarpus nivalis is a hybrid between P. laetus and P. lawrencei.

bioRxiv · Feb 27, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology

A comparison of two universal angiosperm bait sets and the phylogenomics of Alismatales

Ed Biffin, Michelle Waycott, Timothy Andrew Hammer, Kor‐jent van Dijk

The paper compares two universal angiosperm bait sets, finding OzBaits v2 recovers more genes and provides higher phylogenetic utility than Angiosperms353 for the Alismatales order.

bioRxiv · Sep 15, 2025 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology

A multi-gene region targeted capture approach to detect plant DNA in environmental samples: A case study from coastal environments

Nicole R. Foster, Kor‐jent van Dijk, Ed Biffin, Jennifer M. Young, Vicki A. Thomson, Bronwyn May Gillanders, Alice R. Jones, Michelle Waycott

The paper develops a multi-gene targeted capture method to improve species-level identification of flowering plants in environmental DNA samples.

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution · Oct 25, 2021Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology