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• Bowling Green State U.
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Helen J. Michaels Department of Biological Sciences Life Sciences Building Bowling Green State Univeristy Bowling Green, Ohio 43403-0212 email hmichae@bgnet.bgsu.edu

Research Interests

• Molecular evolution, molecular systematics, conservation biology, the evolution and ecology of plant mating systems, plant physiological and evolutionary ecology, DNA fingerprinting and conservation genetics. Specific projects: Ecology and evolution of sexual and asexual plants; evolution of Hawaiian geraniums; effects of population size and habitat structure on genetic variation and fitness of Lupine (Lupinus perennis).

Selected Publications:

• Pax, D.L., R.A. Price and H.J. Michaels. 1997. Phylogenetic position of the Hawaiian Geraniums based on rbcL sequences. American Journal of Botany 84(1):72-78.
• Freeman, D.C., B.A. Wachocki, M.J. Stender, D.E. Goldschlag and H.J. Michaels. 1994. The influence of seed size on sex ratio in spinach: application of the Trivers-Willard hypothesis to plants. Ecoscience 1(1):54-63.
• Chase, M.W., H.J. Michaels, et al. 1993. Phylogenetics of seed plants: an analysis of nucleotide sequences from the plastid gene rbcL. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 80(3):528-548.
• Michaels, H.J., K. Scott, Olmstead, R.G., T. Szaro, R.K. Jansen, and J.D. Palmer. 1993. Interfamilial relationships of the Asteraceae: Insights from rbcL sequences. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 3:742-751.

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