Christine Davis

PhD, Duke University, 2005

B.S. Botany, University of Florida, 1998

Christine is broadly interested in plant and fungal systematics and plant-fungal interactions. Her research focuses on liverwort phylogeny and the fungal endophytes of liverworts. She also works on phylogenetics of the Xylariaceae (Ascomycota), a group commonly found as endophytes in a wide range of plant hosts.

Christine was a postdoc in the Shaw lab in 2005-2007, and was responsible for sequencing and data analyses for the LiToL project (Liverwort Tree of Life). She was also collaborating with J. Duckett and R. Ligrone on a phylogenetic analysis of liverwort-fungal “mycorrhizae.”

In addition to her research, Christine teaches botany classes in the Native Plant Studies and Botanical Illustration programs at the North Carolina Botanical Garden.

Currently, Christine is an Assistant Proffesor of Biology at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC.

Publications:

Liu, Y., Y. Jia, W. Wang, Z.-D. Chen, Y.-L. Qiu, and E. C. Davis. In review. Phylogenetic Relationships of Two Endemic Genera Trichocoleopsis and Neotrichocolea (Hepaticae) from East Asia. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Gardens.

Davis, E. C. and A. J. Shaw. In review. Diversity of liverwort-associated endophyte communities is structured by geography, not host phylogeny. Molecular Ecology.

Forrest, L. L., E. C. Davis, D. G. Long, B. J. Crandall-Stotler, A. Clark, and M. L. Hollingsworth. 2006. Unraveling the evolutionary history of the liverworts (Marchantiophyta) – Multiple taxa, genomes, and analyses. Bryologist 109: 303–334.

Davis, E. C. 2004. A molecular phylogeny of leafy liverworts (Jungermanniidae: Marchantiophyta). In Goffinet, B., V.C. Hollowell, and R.E. Magill [eds.]. Molecular systematics of bryophytes: progress, problems & perspectives. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 98. St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Davis, E.C., Franklin J.B., A.J. Shaw & R. Vilgalys. 2003. Endophytic Xylaria (Xylariaceae) among liverworts and angiosperms: phylogenetics, distribution and symbiosis. American Journal of Botany 90(11): 1661-1667.

Davis, E. C. 2002. The Medical Garden. Second edition. Duke University Medical Center Library.

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