Paul S. Manos

Jack H. Neely Professor of Biology

Office: 
330 Bio Sci Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: 
Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708-0338
Phone: 
(919) 660-7358
Email: 
pmanos@duke.edu
Paul S. Manos
My research emphasizes woody plants, especially the systematics of Fagaceae (the oak family), Juglandaceae (the walnut family), and related wind-pollinated families of flowering plants (Fagales). Our lab uses DNA sequences to generate hypotheses of phylogenetic relationship for inferring morphological character evolution, analyzing patterns of biogeography, and testing species concepts. Students and postdocs have studied the systematics and diversification of the following angiosperm families: Acanthaceae, Nyctaginaceae, Zingiberaceae, Rhamnaceae, Montiaceae, Humiriaceae, Solanaceae, Convolvulaceae, Piperaceae, and Dilleniaceae. Current research interests involve a range of evolutionary and ecological questions within the Fagaceae. For example, we have reinterpreted cupule evolution in the Fagaceae and calibrated the phylogeny for the American clades of Quercus. Ongoing collaborations with Andrew Hipp, John McVay, Andy Crowl, Antonio González-Rodríguez, and Jeannine Cavender-Bares seek to integrate phylogenetic data with phenotypic traits and functional genes to explain species distributions and to better understand the adaptive nature of introgression in the oaks. Other research interests include the phylogeography of eastern North American woody plants and the development of a research network for the southeastern flora.

Education

  • Ph.D., Cornell University 1992

  • M.S., Rutgers University 1986

  • B.A., Drew University 1982

Harnik, PG, Maherali, H, Miller, JH, and Manos, PS. "Geographic range velocity and its association with phylogeny and life history traits in North American woody plants." Ecology and Evolution 8, no. 5 (March 2018): 2632-2644. Full Text

Meireles, JE, and Manos, PS. "Pervasive migration across rainforest and sandy coastal plain Aechmea nudicaulis (Bromeliaceae) populations despite contrasting environmental conditions." Molecular Ecology 27, no. 5 (March 2018): 1261-1272. Full Text

Cavender-Bares, J, Kothari, S, Meireles, JE, Kaproth, MA, Manos, PS, and Hipp, AL. "The role of diversification in community assembly of the oaks (Quercus L.) across the continental U.S." American journal of botany 105, no. 3 (March 2018): 565-586. Full Text

Deng, M, Jiang, X-L, Hipp, AL, Manos, PS, and Hahn, M. "Phylogeny and biogeography of East Asian evergreen oaks (Quercus section Cyclobalanopsis; Fagaceae): Insights into the Cenozoic history of evergreen broad-leaved forests in subtropical Asia." Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 119 (February 2018): 170-181. Full Text

Hipp, AL, Manos, PS, González-Rodríguez, A, Hahn, M, Kaproth, M, McVay, JD, Avalos, SV, and Cavender-Bares, J. "Sympatric parallel diversification of major oak clades in the Americas and the origins of Mexican species diversity." The New Phytologist 217, no. 1 (January 2018): 439-452. Full Text Open Access Copy

Hauser, DA, Keuter, A, McVay, JD, Hipp, AL, and Manos, PS. "The evolution and diversification of the red oaks of the California Floristic Province (Quercus section Lobatae, series Agrifoliae)." American journal of botany 104, no. 10 (October 2017): 1581-1595. Full Text

Fitz-Gibbon, S, Hipp, AL, Pham, KK, Manos, PS, and Sork, VL. "Phylogenomic inferences from reference-mapped and de novo assembled short-read sequence data using RADseq sequencing of California white oaks (Quercus section Quercus)." Genome 60, no. 9 (September 2017): 743-755. Full Text

Pham, KK, Hipp, AL, Manos, PS, and Cronn, RC. "A time and a place for everything: phylogenetic history and geography as joint predictors of oak plastome phylogeny." Genome 60, no. 9 (September 2017): 720-732. Full Text

McVay, JD, Hauser, D, Hipp, AL, and Manos, PS. "Phylogenomics reveals a complex evolutionary history of lobed-leaf white oaks in western North America." Genome 60, no. 9 (September 2017): 733-742. Full Text

McVay, JD, Hipp, AL, and Manos, PS. "A genetic legacy of introgression confounds phylogeny and biogeography in oaks." Proceedings. Biological sciences 284, no. 1854 (May 2017). Full Text

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Selected Grants

Collaborative Research: Automated and Community-driven Synthesis of the Tree of Life awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2012 to 2018

Collaborative Research: Phylogeny of the New World Oaks: Diversification of an Ecologically awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2012 to 2016

DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Edaphic factors in the diversification of Ceanothus L., subgenus Cerastes (Rhamnaceae) awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2008 to 2010

DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Invasion dynamics of the parasitic plant, Epifagus virginiana awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2006 to 2010

Macroevolutionary analysis of Fagaceae: A study of the pattern and process of woody plant diversification awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2005 to 2010

DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Systematics and Pollinator Transitions in the Species-rich Genus Ruellia (Acanthaceae) awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2006 to 2008

REU Site: Bioinformatic and Phylogenetic approaches to the study of plant and fungal biodiversity awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2004 to 2007

DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Mating System Diversity in Boerhavia (Nyctaginaceae) awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2003 to 2006

The phylogenetic biology of the paleotropical tree genus Lithocarpus (Fagaceae) awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2001 to 2005

Rates of range expansion in eastern trees based on molecular and fossil records. awarded by National Science Foundation (Co-Principal Investigator). 2001 to 2005

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