Christine Bacon

SENIOR LECTURER

Department of Biological & Environmental

Sciences

Telephone

+46 31-786 51 67

+46 766-18 51 67

Mail

christine.bacon@bioenv.gu.se

Visiting address

Carl Skottsbergs gata 22B

41319 Göteborg

Postal address

Box 461

40530 Göteborg

Publications

Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering
plants

Daniele Silvestro, Christine D. Bacon, W. N. Ding, Q. Y. Zhang, P. C. J. Donoghue, Alexandre Antonelli, Y. W. Xing
Nature Ecology & Evolution - 2021-01-01
Pollinators drive floral evolution in an Atlantic Forest
genus

I. M. Kessous, R. L. Moura, D. R. Couto, C. M. Zanella, Alexandre Antonelli, Christine D. Bacon, F. Salgueiro, A. F. Costa
Aob Plants - 2020-01-01
Disproportionate extinction of South American mammals drove the asymmetry of the Great American Biotic
Interchange

Juan D. Carrillo, Sören Faurby, Daniele Silvestro, A. Zizka, Carlos Jaramillo, Christine D. Bacon, Alexandre Antonelli
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2020-01-01
Selective extinction against redundant species buffers functional
diversity

C. Pimiento, Christine D. Bacon, Daniele Silvestro, A. Hendy, C. Jaramillo, A. Zizka, X. Meyer, Alexandre Antonelli
Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences - 2020-01-01
Unraveling the Phylogenomic Relationships of the Most Diverse African Palm Genus Raphia (Calamoideae,
Arecaceae)

A. J. Helmstetter, S. M. Kamga, K. Bethune, T. Lautenschlager, A. Zizka, Christine D. Bacon, J. J. Wieringa, F. Stauffer, Alexandre Antonelli, B. Sonke, T. L. P. Couvreur
Plants-Basel - 2020-01-01
Transitions between biomes are common and directional in Bombacoideae
(Malvaceae)

Alexander Zizka, J. G. Carvalho-Sobrinho, R. T. Pennington, L. P. Queiroz, S. Alcantara, D. A. Baum, Christine D. Bacon, Alexandre Antonelli
Journal of Biogeography - 2020-01-01
A Guide to Carrying Out a Phylogenomic Target Sequence Capture
Project

Tobias Andermann, Maria Fernanda Torres Jimenez, Pável Matos-Maraví, R. Batista, José Luis Blanco-Pastor, A. L. S. Gustafsson, L. Kistler, Isabel M. Liberal, Bengt Oxelman, Christine D. Bacon, Alexandre Antonelli
Frontiers in Genetics - 2020-01-01
Drivers of bromeliad leaf and floral bract variation across a latitudinal gradient in the Atlantic
Forest

B. Neves, C. M. Zanella, I. M. Kessous, F. P. Uribbe, F. Salgueiro, F. Bered, Alexandre Antonelli, Christine D. Bacon, A. F. Costa
Journal of Biogeography - 2020-01-01
Targeted Capture of Hundreds of Nuclear Genes Unravels Phylogenetic Relationships of the Diverse Neotropical Palm Tribe
Geonomateae

O. Loiseau, I. Oliyares, M. Paris, M. de La Harpe, A. Weigand, D. Koubinova, J. Rolland, Christine D. Bacon, H. Balslev, F. Borchsenius, A. Cano, T. L. P. Couvreur, C. Delnatte, F. Fardin, M. Gayot, F. Mejia, T. Mota-Machado, M. Ferret, J. Roncal, M. J. Sanin, F. Stauffer, C. Lexer, M. Kessler, N. Salamin
Frontiers in Plant Science - 2019-01-01
Phylogenomics, biogeography and evolution in the American genus Brahea
(Arecaceae)

C. F. Barrett, B. T. Sinn, L. T. King, J. C. Medina, Christine D. Bacon, S. C. Lahmeyer, D. R. Hodel
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society - 2019-01-01
- Could coastal plants in western Amazonia be relicts of past marine
incursions?

R. Bernal, Christine D. Bacon, H. Balslev, C. Hoorn, S. J. Bourlat, H. Tuomisto, S. Salamanca, M. T. van Manen, I. Romero, P. Sepulchre, Alexandre Antonelli
Journal of Biogeography - 2019-01-01
Ancient Polyploidy and Genome Evolution in
Palms

C. F. Barrett, M. R. McKain, B. T. Sinn, X. J. Ge, Y. Q. Zhang, Alexandre Antonelli, Christine D. Bacon
Genome Biology and Evolution - 2019-01-01
Niche conservatism drives a global discrepancy in palm species richness between seasonally dry and moist
habitats

C. Cássia-Silva, C. G. Freitas, D. M. C. C. Alves, Christine D. Bacon, R. G. Collevatti
Global Ecology and Biogeography - 2019-01-01
Soil fertility and flood regime are correlated with phylogenetic structure of Amazonian palm
communities

Christine D. Bacon, Sören Faurby, Alexandre Antonelli, S. M. Kristiansen, J. C. Svenning, H. Balslev
Annals of Botany - 2019-01-01
Adjacency and Area Explain Species Bioregional Shifts in Neotropical
Palms

C. G. Freitas, Christine D. Bacon, A. C. Souza-Neto, R. G. Collevatti
Frontiers in Plant Science - 2019-01-01
Embracing heterogeneity: coalescing the Tree of Life and the future of
phylogenomics

G. A. Bravo, Alexandre Antonelli, Christine D. Bacon, K. Bartoszek, M. P. K. Blom, S. Huynh, G. Jones, L. L. Knowles, Sangeet Lamichhaney, T. Marcussen, H. Morlon, L. K. Nakhleh, B. Oxelman, B. Pfeil, A. Schliep, N. Wahlberg, F. P. Werneck, J. Wiedenhoeft, S. Willows-Munro, S. V. Edwards
Peerj - 2019-01-01
Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity
research

Alexandre Antonelli, María Ariza, J. Albert, Tobias Andermann, Josué Azevedo, Christine D. Bacon, Sören Faurby, Thaís Guedes, C. Hoorn, L. G. Lohmann, Pável Matos-Maraví, Camila Ritter, I. Sanmartín, Daniele Silvestro, Marcelo Tejedor, H. Ter Steege, H. Tuomisto, F. P. Werneck, Alexander Zizka, S. V. Edwards
PeerJ - 2018-01-01
SECAPR-a bioinformatics pipeline for the rapid and user-friendly processing of targeted enriched Illumina sequences, from raw reads to
alignments

Tobias Andermann, A. Cano, Alexander Zizka, Christine D. Bacon, Alexandre Antonelli
Peerj - 2018-01-01
Rivers shape population genetic structure in Mauritia flexuosa
(Arecaceae)

N. L. Sander, F. Perez-Zavala, C. J. Da Silva, J. C. Arruda, M. T. Pulido, M. A. A. Barelli, A. B. Rossi, A. P. Viana, M. S. B. Boechat, Christine D. Bacon, A. Cibrian-Jaramillo
Ecology and Evolution - 2018-01-01
Phylotar: An automated pipeline for retrieving orthologous DNA sequences from GenBank in
R

Dominic J. Bennett, H. Hettling, Daniele Silvestro, Alexander Zizka, Christine D. Bacon, Sören Faurby, R. A. Vos, Alexandre Antonelli
Life - 2018-01-01
The road to evolutionary success: insights from the demographic history of an Amazonian
palm

W. A. Melo, C. G. Freitas, Christine D. Bacon, R. G. Collevatti
Heredity - 2018-01-01
Iriarteeae palms tracked the uplift of Andean
Cordilleras

Christine D. Bacon, F. J. Velasquez-Puentes, C. Hoorn, Alexandre Antonelli
Journal of Biogeography - 2018-01-01
The roles of dispersal and mass extinction in shaping palm diversity across the
Caribbean

A. Cano, Christine D. Bacon, F. W. Stauffer, Alexandre Antonelli, M. L. Serrano-Serrano, M. Perret
Journal of Biogeography - 2018-01-01
Amazonia is the primary source of Neotropical
biodiversity

Alexandre Antonelli, Alexander Zizka, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Ruud Scharn, Christine D. Bacon, Daniele Silvestro, Fabien L. Condamine
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2018-01-01
Evolutionary persistence in Gunnera and the contribution of southern plant groups to the tropical Andes biodiversity
hotspot

Christine D. Bacon, F. J. Velásquez-Puentes, L. F. Hinojosa, Thomas Schwartz, Bengt Oxelman, Bernard E. Pfeil, M. T. K. Arroyo, L. Wanntorp, Alexandre Antonelli
PeerJ - 2018-01-01
Comment (1) on "Formation of the Isthmus of Panama" by O'Dea et
al.

Carlos Jaramillo, Camilo Montes, Agustín Cardona, Daniele Silvestro, Alexandre Antonelli, Christine D. Bacon
Science advances - 2017-01-01
Endemic palm species shed light on habitat shifts and the assembly of the Cerrado and Restinga
floras

Christine D. Bacon, R. M. Moraes, C. Jaramillo, Alexandre Antonelli
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - 2017-01-01
Toward a Self-Updating Platform for Estimating Rates of Speciation and Migration, Ages, and Relationships of
Taxa.

Alexandre Antonelli, Hannes Hettling, Fabien L. Condamine, Karin Vos, R. Henrik Nilsson, Michael J Sanderson, Hervé Sauquet, Ruud Scharn, Daniele Silvestro, Mats H. Töpel, Christine D. Bacon, Bengt Oxelman, Rutger A Vos
Systematic biology - 2017-01-01
Fossil biogeography: A new model to infer dispersal, extinction and sampling from palaeontological
data

Daniele Silvestro, Alexander Zizka, Christine D. Bacon, Borja Cascales-Miñana, Nicolas Salamin, Alexandre Antonelli
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences - 2016-01-01
An introduction to plant phylogenomics with a focus on
palms

C. F. Barrett, Christine D. Bacon, Alexandre Antonelli, A. Cano, Tobias Hofmann
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society - 2016-01-01
Phylogenetics of Iriarteeae (Arecaceae), cross-Andean disjunctions and convergence of clustered infructescence morphology in
Wettinia

Christine D. Bacon, F. Velasquez-Puentes, A. Florez-Rodriguez, H. Balslev, G. Galeano, R. Bernal, Alexandre Antonelli
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society - 2016-01-01
The Neogene rise of the tropical Andes facilitated diversification of wax palms (Ceroxylon: Arecaceae) through geographical colonization and climatic niche
separation

M. J. Sanín, W. D. Kissling, Christine D. Bacon, F. Borchsenius, G. Galeano, J. C. Svenning, J. Olivera, R. Ramírez, P. Trénel, J. C. Pintaud
Botanical journal of the Linnean Society - 2016-01-01
Species limits, geographical distribution and genetic diversity in Johannesteijsmannia
(Arecaceae)

Christine D. Bacon, S. L. Look, N. Gutierrez-Pinto, Alexandre Antonelli, H. T. W. Tan, P. P. Kumar, S. L. Guan, J. Dransfield, W. J. Baker
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society - 2016-01-01
Exploring palm–insect interactions across geographical and environmental
gradients

Z. Restrepo Correa, L. A. Núñez Avellaneda, S. González-Caro, F. J. Velásquez-Puentes, Christine D. Bacon
Botanical journal of the Linnean Society - 2016-01-01
Quaternary glaciation and the Great American Biotic
Interchange

Christine D. Bacon, P. Molnar, Alexandre Antonelli, A. J. Crawford, C. Montes, M. C. Vallejo-Pareja
Geology - 2016-01-01
Biogeography of the Malagasy Celastraceae: Multiple independent origins followed by widespread dispersal of genera from
Madagascar

Christine D. Bacon, C.D. Bacon, M.P. Simmons, R.H. Archer, L.C. Zhao, J. Andriantiana
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - 2016-01-01
Reply to Lessios and Marko et al.: Early and progressive migration across the Isthmus of Panama is robust to missing data and
biases

Christine D. Bacon, Daniele Silvestro, C. Jaramillo, B.T. Smith, P. Chakrabarty, Alexandre Antonelli
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2015-01-01
An engine for global plant diversity: Highest evolutionary turnover and emigration in the American
tropics

Alexandre Antonelli, Alexander Zizka, Daniele Silvestro, Ruud Scharn, B. Cascales-Miñana, Christine D. Bacon
Frontiers in Genetics - 2015-01-01
Revisiting the origin and diversification of vascular plants through a comprehensive Bayesian analysis of the fossil
record

Daniele Silvestro, B. Cascales-Minana, Christine D. Bacon, Alexandre Antonelli
New Phytologist - 2015-01-01
Biological evidence supports an early and complex emergence of the Isthmus of
Panama

Christine D. Bacon, Daniele Silvestro, C. Jaramillo, B. T. Smith, P. Chakrabarty, Alexandre Antonelli
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2015-01-01
Geographic and taxonomic disparities in species diversity: dispersal and diversification rates across wallace's
line

Christine D. Bacon, F. Michonneau, A. J. Henderson, M. J. McKenna, A. M. Milroy, M. P. Simmons
Evolution - 2013-01-01