Pamela S. Soltis

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Pamela Sue Soltis (* as Pamela Sagraves November 13, 1957 in Nelsonville, Ohio ) is an American botanist and evolutionary biologist. Your official botanical author abbreviation is " PSSoltis ".

Soltis was 1976 Valedictorian (top of his class, the closing speech held) on its High School (Pella High School in Iowa), studied biology at Central College in Iowa (bachelor's degree in 1980 summa cum laude ) and at the University of Kansas at which she received her master's degree in botany in 1984 and her PhD in 1986. From 1986 she was Assistant Professor, 1992 Associate Professor and 1998 Professor at Washington State University . She has been a curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History since 2000 and research professor at the University of Florida since 2006 (Distinguished Professor since 2007).

It deals with mechanisms of speciation , phylogeny of angiosperms (angiosperms) and land plants, evolution of characteristics such as flowers, evolutionary role of polyploidy , genetic issues of conservation in conservation, biogeography . She is in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group .

In 2016 she received the Darwin Wallace Medal with her husband Douglas E. Soltis , with whom she also works a lot, and both received the Merit Award of the Botanical Society of America in 2010. In 2016 she became a member of the National Academy of Sciences and in 2017 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2007-08 she was President of the Botanical Society of America and she was President of the Society of Systematic Biologists. In 2002 she received the Dahlgren Prize of the Royal Physiographical Society in Lund and in 2006 the Asa Gray Award with Douglas Soltis . She received the Botanical Society of America's Centennial Award and the Stebbins Award.

Fonts (selection)

Books:

  • with Douglas E. Soltis: Developmental genetics of the flower, Advances in botanical research incorporating advances in plant pathology 44, 2006
  • Editor with Douglas E. Soltis, Jeff J. Doyle: Molecular systematics of plants, Chapman and Hall 1992
  • Editor with Douglas E. Soltis: Isozymes in plant biology, Portland: Dioscorides Press 1989, London: Chapman and Hall 1990
  • Studies of genetic variation in an introgressive complex in Clarkia (Onagraceae), University of Kansas, 1986 (dissertation)

Some essays:

  • with Douglas E. Soltis: The origin and diversification of angiosperms, American J. of Botany, Volume 91, 2004, pp. 1614-1626
  • with S. Kim, DE 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, DE Soltis u. 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 , DE 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, DE Soltis: Evolution of floral structures in basal angiosperms, International Journal of Plant Sciences, Volume 164, 2003, S329-S363.
  • with others: Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II: An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II, Botanical J. of the Linnean Society, Volume 141, 2003, pp. 399-436
  • with DE 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 MA Gitzendanner: Patterns of genetic variation in rare and widespread plant congeners: Do rare species have low levels of genetic variability?, American J. of Botany, Volume 87, 2000, pp. 783-792
  • with Mark W. Chase, DE Soltis: Angiosperm phylogeny inferred from multiple genes: A research tool for comparative biology, Nature, Volume 402, 1999, pp. 402-404
  • with John N. Thompson , Douglas Soltis, DW Schemske, JF Hancock: Autopolyploidy in angiosperms: have we grossly underestimated the number of species?, Taxon, Volume 56, 2007, pp. 13-30

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum Vitae (pdf), Florida Museum of Natural History, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Soltis, Pamela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sagraves, Pamela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American evolutionary biologist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Nelsonville, Ohio