Douglas E. Soltis

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Douglas Edward Soltis , called Doug Soltis, (born October 28, 1953 ) is an American botanist and evolutionary biologist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Soltis ".

Soltis studied at the College of William and Mary with a bachelor's degree in 1975 and at Indiana University with a master's degree in 1977 and a PhD in biology in 1980. His dissertation was entitled A biosystematic study of Sullivantia and related studies in the Saxifragaceae . He was a professor of botany at Washington State University and, from 2001, at the University of Florida and the Florida Museum of Natural History .

Soltis is concerned with phylogeny and evolution of plants and particularly the angiosperms (angiosperms), origin of the flower, phylogeography, polyploidy and its role in evolution. He is involved in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (revision of the family tree of angiosperms on a genetic basis) and in the 1kP project (One thousand plant transcriptomes, building a gene database by sequencing the genome of around 1000 plant species). He is also working with Chinese scientists on a Tree of Life project on the plants of China (around 30,000 species). He is working with colleagues on a similar project for vascular plants in Florida (also with applications in nature conservation). Research by him and his colleagues showed, among other things, that Amborella is closest to the origin of the bedecktsamer, and he is involved in the sequencing project of the Amborella genome. They also found that autopolyploidy is more common in plants than previously thought and were able to identify various polyploidy events in the evolution of the eclipses (including a duplication of the gene set close to the original form of the eclipses). In phylogeography they were able to identify a limit in terms of the genomic material of plants (later also found in animals) in the middle of Oregon, which can be traced back to geographical isolation in the Pleistocene.

In 2016 he received the Darwin Wallace Medal with his wife Pamela Soltis , with whom he also works a lot, and both received the Merit Award of the Botanical Society of America in 2010 and they received the Asa Gray Award. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the National Academy of Sciences (2017) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

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Books:

  • with Pamela Soltis: Developmental genetics of the flower, Advances in botanical research incorporating advances in plant pathology 44, 2006
  • Editor with Pamela Soltis, Jeff J. Doyle: Molecular systematics of plants, Chapman and Hall 1992
  • Editor with Pamela Soltis: Isozymes in plant biology, Portland: Dioscorides Press 1989, London: Chapman and Hall 1990

Some essays:

  • with Pamela Soltis: The origin and diversification of angiosperms, American J. of Botany, Volume 91, 2004, pp. 1614-1626
  • with S. Kim, PS Soltis u. a .: Pre-angiosperm duplication of floral genes and regulatory tinkering at the base of angiosperms, American J. of Botany, Volume 91, 2004, pp. 2102-2118
  • with JC Pires, PS Soltis a. a .: Molecular cytogenetic analysis of recently evolved Tragopogon (Asteraceae) allopolyploids reveal a karyotype that is additive of the diploid progenitors, Am. J. of Botany, Vol. 91, 2004, pp. 1022-1035
  • with TJ Davies, TG Barraclough, Mark W. Chase , PS Soltis, V. Savolainen: Darwin's abominable mystery: Insights from a supertree of the angiosperms, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, Volume 101, 2004, pp. 1904– 1909.
  • with LP Ronse DeCraene, PS Soltis: Evolution of floral structures in basal angiosperms, International Journal of Plant Sciences, Volume 164, 2003, S329-S363.
  • with others: Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II, 2003
  • with PS Soltis, V. Savolainen, PR Crane, T. Barraclough: Rate heterogeneity among lineages of land plants: integration of molecular and fossil data and evidence for molecular living fossils, Proc. of the National Academy of Sci. USA, Vol. 99, 2002, pp. 4430-4435
  • with John N. Thompson , Pamela Soltis, DW Schemske, JF Hancock: Autopolyploidy in angiosperms: have we grossly underestimated the number of species?, Taxon, Volume 56, 2007, pp. 13-30

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SURNAME Soltis, Douglas E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soltis, Douglas Edward; Soltis, Douglas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American evolutionary biologist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1953