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Robert Jansen

Jansen, Robert
Sidney F. and Doris Blake Centennial Professor In Systematic Botany and the Blake Collection

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Main Office: BIO 212 Phone: (512) 471-8827

Alternate Office: BIO 225 Phone: (512) 471-8854

Mailing Address:
The University of Texas at Austin - ICMB
1 University Station C0930
2401 Whitis
Austin,TX 78712-1095

Research Lab Members:
  • Blazier, John (Chris)
  • Gruenstaeudl, Michael
  • Ruhlman, Tracey
  • Schwarz, Erika
  • Weng, Mao-Lun
  • Zhang, Jin

    • Research Summary:
    My primary research interests involve the determination of phylogenetic relationships among plants and the evolution of the chloroplast genome. Research in my lab is concentrated in three areas: (1) organization and evolution of chloroplast genomes; (2) computational methods for comparative chloroplast genomics, (3) examination of extensive genetic integration between the two organelles and the nucleus in plants, and (4) systematics and the evolution of the Asteraceae, Campanulaceae, and Geraniaceae.


    Research Images:
    Pelargonium chloroplast genome
    Pelargonium chloroplast genome -

    Publications:
    2012 Weng M.-L., Ruhlman T.A., Gibby M., and R. K. Jansen, Phylogeny, rate variation, and genome size evolution of Pelargonium (Geraniaceae), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 64: 654-670 view
    2011 Blazier J.C., Guisinger M.M., Jansen R.K, Recent loss of plastid-encoded ndh genes within Erodium (Geraniaceae), Plant Molecular Biology 76: 263-272 view
    2011 Jansen, RK, C Saski, S-B Lee, A K Hansen, and H Daniell, Complete plastid genome sequences of three rosids (Castanea, Prunus, Theobroma): evidence for at least two independent transfers of rpl22 to the nucleus, Molecular Biology and Evolution 28: 835-847 view
    2011 Guisinger MM, Kuehl JV, Boore JL, and RK Jansen., Extreme Reconfiguration of Plastid Genomes in the Angiosperm Family Geraniaceae: Rearrangements, Repeats, and Codon Usage, Molecular Biology and Evolution 28: 583-600 view
    2010 Guisinger, M.M., T.W. Chumley, J.V. Kuehl, J.L. Boore, and R.K. Jansen, Implications of the plastid genome sequence of Typha latifolia (Typhaceae, Poales) for understanding genome evolution in Poaceae, Journal of Molecular Evolution 70: 149-166 view
    2009 Haberle, R.S., A. Dang, T. Lee, C. Penaflor, H. Cortes-Burns, A. Oestreich, L. Raubeson, E. Edwards, S.-T. Tang, N. Cellinese, W.M.M. Eddie, and R.K. Jansen, Molecular systematics of Campanulaceae sensu stricto using chloroplast DNA sequences of atpB, matK, and rbcL, Taxon 58: 715–734 view
    2008 Guisinger MM, Kuehl JV, Boore JL, Jansen RK., Genome-wide analyses of Geraniaceae plastid DNA reveal unprecedented patterns of increased nucleotide substitutions., Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105(47): 18424-9 view
    2008 Cai Z, Guisinger M, Kim HG, Ruck E, Blazier JC, McMurtry V, Kuehl JV, Boore J, Jansen RK., Extensive reorganization of the plastid genome of Trifolium subterraneum (Fabaceae) is associated with numerous repeated sequences and novel DNA insertions, J Mol Evol. 67(6): 696-704 view
    2007 Raubeson, L.A., Peery, R., Chumley, T., Dziubek, C,, Fourcade, H.M., Boore, J.L., Jansen, R.K., Comparative chloroplast genomics: analyses including new sequences from the angiosperms Nuphar advena and Ranunculus macranthus, BMC Genomics 8: 174 view
    2007 Hansen, D.R., Dastidar, S.G., Cai, Z., Penaflor, C., Kuehl, J.V., Boore, J.L., Jansen, R.K., Phylogenetic and evolutionary implications of complete chloroplast genome sequences of four early-diverging angiosperms: Buxus (Buxaceae), Chloranthus (Chloranthaceae), Dioscorea (Dioscoreaceae), and Illicium (Schisandraceae), Mol Phylogenet Evol 45: 547-563 view
    2006 Jansen, R.K., C. Kaittanis, C. Saski, S-B. Lee, J. Tompkins, A. J. Alverson, and, H. Daniell, Phylogenetic analyses of Vitis (Vitaceae) based on complete chloroplast genome sequences: Effects of taxon sampling and phylogenetic methods on resolving relationships among Rosids, BMC Evolutionary Biology 6: 32 view
    2006 Cui, L., N. Veeraraghavan, K. Wall, R.K. Jansen, J. Leebens-Mack, I. Makalowska, C. W. dePamphilis, ChloroplastDB: the chloroplast genome database, Nucleic Acids Research 34: D692-D696 view
    2006 Chumley, T.W., J.D. Palmer, J.P. Mower, J.L. Boore, H.M. Fourcade, P.J. Caile, and R.K. Jansen, The completed chloroplast genome sequence of Pelargonium x hortorum: Organization and evolution of the largest and most highly rearranged chloroplast genome of land plants, Molecular Biology and Evolution 23: 1-16 view
    2005 Leebens-Mack, J., L.A. Raubeson, L. Cui, J. Kuehl, M. Fourcade, T. Chumley, J.L. Boore, R.K. Jansen, and C.W. dePamphilis, Identifying the basal angiosperms in chloroplast genome phylogenies: Sampling one's way out of the Felsenstein zone, Molecular Biology and Evolution 22: 1948-1963 view
    2004 Wyman, S.K., J.L. Boore, and R.K. Jansen, Automatic annotation of organellar genomes with DOGMA, Bioinformatics 20: 3252-325 view