Goffinet Lab
| Phone: | 860 486-5290 |
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| E-mail: | bernard.goffinet@uconn.edu |
| Address: | Mailing: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 75 NorthEagleville road University of Connecticut Storrs CT 06269-3043 Office: Storrs Campus Biology Pharmacy Bldg Room 300 Lab: rooms 312 & 316 |
The research interests in this lab
cross organismal lines with projects focusing on liverworts, hornworts, mosses or lichen-forming fungi and span the fields of floristics and phylogeography, systematics and phylogeny, genome evolution and developmental biology.
News
- Updated on-line classification of mossesBernard Goffinet and William R. Buck have updated the on-line classification of extant mosses integrating most generic and supra generic taxa described to 2019. The classification now accommodates 969 genera!Posted on January 7, 2020
- New publication on liverwort mitochondrial genomesDong S., C. Zhao, S. Zhang, L. Zhang, H. Wu, R. Zhu, Y. Jia, B. Goffinet & Y. Liu. 2020. Mitochondrial genomes of the early land plant lineage liverworts (Marchantiophyta): conserved genome structure, and ongoing low frequency recombination. BMC Genomics 20: 953. pdf Abstract reads: Background: In contrast to the highly labile mitochondrial (mt) genomes of vascular […]Posted on December 12, 2019
- New publication on liverwort organellar genomesDong S., C. Zhao, S. Zhang, H. Wu, W. Mu, T. Wei, N. Li, H. Liu, J. Cui, R. Zhu, B. Goffinet & Y. Liu. 2020. The amount of RNA editing sites in liverwort organellar genes is correlated with GC content and nuclear PPR protein diversity. Genome Biology and Evolution 11: 3233–3239. pdf Abstract reads: […]Posted on December 2, 2019