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Florida Museum of Natural History: Gainesville, FL, US

2018-08-16 to present | Curator of the Herbarium (Natural History)
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Lucas C. Majure

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University of Florida: Gainesville, FL, US

2007-08 to 2012-08 | Ph.D. (Botany)
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Lucas C. Majure

Works (21)

Diversity, Ecology, and Distribution of Opuntioideae (Prickly Pears and Chollas) Neophytes in Southern Switzerland

Diversity
2025-03-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/d17030197
Contributors: Peter O. Baumgartner; David J. Ferguson; Lucas C. Majure
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Seasonally dry tropical forests of the Greater Antilles yield a new species of the Caribbean clade of Castela, Castela plenaensis (Simaroubaceae), an endemic to the southern slopes of the Sierra de Bahoruco, Dominican Republic

Brittonia
2024-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s12228-024-09810-1
Contributors: Lucas C. Majure; Teodoro Clase
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Biogeography and diversification of the Caribbean clade of Miconia (Melastomataceae): a Cuban origin underlies one of the largest Antillean radiations

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
2023-11-22 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blad048
Contributors: Lucas C Majure; Lucas F Bacci; Eldis R Bécquer; Walter S Judd; Teodoro Clase; J Dan Skean, Jr; Fabián A Michelangeli
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Lista anotada de cactus nativos y naturalizados de Cuba

Botanical Sciences
2023-08-21 | Journal article
DOI: 10.17129/botsci.3324
Contributors: Duniel Barrios; Salvador Arias; Luis Roberto González-Torres; Lucas C. Majure
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Evolution of the Xerocarpa clade (Opuntia; Opuntieae): Evidence for the Role of the Grand Canyon in the Biogeographic History of the Iconic Beavertail Cactus and Relatives

Plants
2023-07-18 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/plants12142677
Contributors: Lucas C. Majure; Thomas H. Murphy; Matias Köhler; Raul Puente; Wendy C. Hodgson
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Phylogenomics of One of the World’s Most Intriguing Groups of CAM Plants, the Opuntioids (Opuntioideae: Cactaceae): Adaptation to Tropical Dry Forests Helped Drive Prominent Morphological Features in the Clade

Diversity
2023-04 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3390/d15040570
Contributors: Lucas C. Majure; Serena Achá; Marc Baker; Raul Puente-Martinez; Matias Köhler; Shannon D. Fehlberg
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More than a prickly morphology: plastome variation in the prickly pear cacti (Opuntieae)

2023-03-14 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.13.532486
Contributors: Matias Köhler; Marcelo Reginato; Jian-Jun Jin; Lucas C. Majure
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Phylogenomics of the Caribbean melocacti: Cryptic species and multiple invasions

TAXON
2022-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/tax.12791
Contributors: Lucas C. Majure; Duniel Barrios; Edgardo Díaz; Lucas F. Bacci; Yuley Encarnación Piñeyro
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Remarkably rapid, recent diversification of Cochemiea and Mammillaria in the Baja California, Mexico region

American Journal of Botany
2022-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.16048
Contributors: Peter B. Breslin; Martin F. Wojciechowski; Lucas C. Majure
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Castela (Simaroubaceae), an impressive New World radiation of thorny shrubs destined for edaphically dry habitats

Brazilian Journal of Botany
2022-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s40415-021-00742-8
Contributors: Lucas C. Majure; Allison Blankenship; Ayress Grinage; Alfredo Noa-Monzón
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On the continuum of evolution: a putative new hybrid speciation event in Opuntia (Cactaceae) between a native and an introduced species in southern South America

Systematics and Biodiversity
2021-11-17 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2021.1967510
Contributors: Matias Köhler; Luis J. Oakley; Fabián Font; M. Laura Las Peñas; Lucas C. Majure
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A new species of Picrasma, P. nanophylla (Simaroubaceae), from the Dominican Republic

Brittonia
2021-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s12228-021-09656-x
Contributors: Lucas C. Majure; Teodoro Clase; Allison Blankenship; Alfredo Noa-Monzón
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An updated account of Simaroubaceae with emphasis on American taxa

Brazilian Journal of Botany
2021-08-19 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s40415-021-00731-x
Contributors: José Rubens Pirani; Lucas C. Majure; Marcelo Fernando Devecchi
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<strong>“That’s <em>Opuntia</em>, that was!”, again: a new combination for an old and enigmatic <em>Opuntia</em> s.l. (Cactaceae)</strong>

Phytotaxa
2021-06-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.505.3.2
Contributors: MATIAS KÖHLER; FABIÁN FONT; RAUL PUENTE-MARTINEZ; LUCAS CHARLES MAJURE
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Identification of the Begomoviruses Squash Leaf Curl Virus and Watermelon Chlorotic Stunt Virus in Various Plant Samples in North America

Viruses
2021-04 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3390/v13050810
Contributors: Rafaela Salgado Fontenele; Amulya Bhaskara; Ilaria N. Cobb; Lucas C. Majure; Andrew M. Salywon; Jesús A. Avalos-Calleros; Gerardo R. Argüello-Astorga; Kara Schmidlin; Philippe Roumagnac; Simone Ribeiro et al.
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Molecular phylogeny of the Mammilloid clade (Cactaceae) resolves the monophyly of Mammillaria

TAXON
2021-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/tax.12451
Contributors: Peter B. Breslin; Martin F. Wojciechowski; Lucas C. Majure
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New World Cactaceae Plants Harbor Diverse Geminiviruses

Viruses
2021-04 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3390/v13040694
Contributors: Rafaela Salgado Fontenele; Andrew M. Salywon; Lucas C. Majure; Ilaria N. Cobb; Amulya Bhaskara; Jesús A. Avalos-Calleros; Gerardo R. Argüello-Astorga; Kara Schmidlin; Anthony Khalifeh; Kendal Smith et al.
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Pleistocene aridification underlies the evolutionary history of the Caribbean endemic, insular, giant Consolea (Opuntioideae)

American Journal of Botany
2021-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1610
Contributors: Lucas C. Majure; Duniel Barrios; Edgardo Díaz; Bethany A. Zumwalde; Weston Testo; Vivian Negrón‐Ortíz
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Phylogenetics of Leptocereus (Cactaceae) on Hispaniola: clarifying species limits in the L. weingartianus complex and a new species from the Sierra de Bahoruco

PhytoKeys
2021-01-29 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.172.59497
Contributors: Lucas C. Majure; Yuley Encarnación; Teodoro Clase; Brígido Peguero; Kelly Ho; Duniel Barrios
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Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Antillean endemic genus Leptocereus (Cactaceae) inferred from chloroplast markers and morphological evidence

Plant Systematics and Evolution
2020-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00606-020-01693-5
Contributors: Duniel Barrios; Luis R. González-Torres; Salvador Arias; Lucas C. Majure
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Phylogenomics in Cactaceae: A case study using the chollas sensu lato (Cylindropuntieae, Opuntioideae) reveals a common pattern out of the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts

American Journal of Botany
2019-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1364
Contributors: Lucas C. Majure; Marc A. Baker; Michelle Cloud‐Hughes; Andrew Salywon; Kurt M. Neubig
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Peer review (14 reviews for 9 publications/grants)

Review activity for American journal of botany. (3)
Review activity for Applications in plant sciences. (1)
Review activity for Brittonia. (4)
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Review activity for Industrial crops and products. (1)
Review activity for Molecular phylogenetics and evolution. (1)
Review activity for Nature communications (1)
Review activity for Nature plants. (1)
Review activity for Planta. (1)
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