Christiane Kiefer

The paper investigates the evolution and reversal of woodiness in flowering plants, finding that drought supports persistence while reduced frost drives gains and increased frost leads to loss.

This paper develops a method to analyze hybrid and polyploid evolutionary relationships using phylogenetic placement of paralogs from target enrichment data, showing its ability to detect hybridization and polyploidization events.

The paper investigates the spatio-temporal evolution of annual species in the Arabideae tribe using plastid genome data and ecological modeling to test migration versus adaptation hypotheses.