PUBLICATIONS

Summary

37 papers - 1 letter to the editor - two monographs - 1 book 

325 citations - h-index 11 - 30.53 RG score - 125.7 Impact Factor points accumulated

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

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SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY 65: 51-65

Rumbling orchids: How to assess divergent evolution between chloroplast endosymbionts and the nuclear host 

2016

NEW PHYTOLOGIST 215: 891-905

Recent origin and rapid speciation of Neotropical orchids in the world's richest plant biodiversity hotspot.

2017

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 7:
1-10

Andean mountain building did not preclude dispersal of lowland epiphytic orchids in the Neotropics

2017

SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

IN PRESS

Random Tanglegram Partitions (Random TaPas): an Alexandrian approach to the cophylogenetic Gordian knot

2020

SCIENCE 359: 6383

2018

Mining threatens Colombian ecosystems

PAPERS

Peer-reviewed

2020
41. RANDOM TANGLEGRAM PARTITIONS (RANDOM TAPAS): AN ALEXANDRIAN APPROACH TO THE COPHYLOGENETIC GORDIAN KNOT

Juan A. Balbuena, Oscar Alejandro Pérez Escobar, Cristina Llopis-Belenguer, Isabel Blasco-Costa. Systematic Biology in press. IF: 10.38

40. RESOLVING RELATIONSHIPS IN AN EXCEEDINGLY YOUNG NEOTROPICAL ORCHID LINEAGE USING GENOTYPING-BY-SEQUENCING DATA

Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar*, Diego Bogarín, Rowan Schley, Richard M. Bateman, Guenter Gerlach, Doerte Harpke, Jonathan Brassac, Mario Fernández-Mazuecos, Steven Dodsworth*, Erci hagsater, Mario A. Blanco, Marc Gottschling, Frank R. Blattner. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 144: 106672. IF: 3.9

39. REPETITIVE DNA RESTRUCTURING ACROSS MULTIPLE NICOTIANA ALLOPOLYPLOIDISATION EVENTS SHOWS A LACK OF STRONG CYTOPLASMIC BIAS IN INFLUENCING REPEAT TURNOVER

Steven Dodsworth, Maite S. Guignard, Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Monika Struebig, Mark W. Chase, Andrew R. Leitch. Genes 11: 216 (open access). IF: 2.63

38. THE CLIMATIC CHALLENGE: WHICH PLANTS WILL PEOPLE USE IN THE NEXT CENTURY?

James S. Borrell, Steven Dodsworth, Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Mark A. Lee, Efisio Matana, Philip C. Stevenson, M.-J. Howes, Hugh W. Prichard, Danny Ballesteros, Buntaro Kusumoto, Ia Ondo, Justin MOat, William Miliken, Philippa Ryan, Tiziana Ulian, Samuel Pironon. Environmental and Experimental Botany 170: 103872 (open access). IF: 3.7

2019

37. PHYLOGENETIC COMPARATIVE METHODS IMPROVE THE SELECTION OF CHARACTERS FOR GENERIC DELIMITATIONS IN A HYPERDIVERSE NEOTROPICAL ORCHID CLADE

Diego Bogarín, Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Adam Karremans, Melania Fernández, Jaco Kruizinga, Franco Pupulin, Erik Smets, Barbara Gravendeel. Scientific Reports 9: 11-17 (open access). IF: 4.01

36. LINKING COORDINATED SHIFT IN PLANT RESOURCE ALLOCATION TO A CHROMOSOMAL INVERSION

Steven Dodsworth, Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar. Evolution 73: 1318-1319 (open access). IF: 3.53

35. THE ORIGIN AND DIVERSIFICATION OF THE HYPERDIVERSE FLORA IN THE CHOCÓ BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION

Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar*^, Eve J. Lucas^, Carlos Jaramillo^, Alexande Monro, Sarah K. Morris^, Deborah Greer^, Steven Dodsworth, Josóe Aguilar-Cano, Andrea Sánchez Meseguer, Aleandre Antonelli. Frontiers in Plant Science 10: 1328 (open access). IF: 4.1

2018

34. ANCHORED HYBRID ENRICHMENT GENERATED NUCLEAR, PLASTID AND MITOCHONDRIAL MARKERS RESOLVE THE LEPANTHES HORRIDA (ORCHIDACEAE: PLEUROTHALLIDINAE) SPECIES COMPLEX

Diego Bogarín, Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Dick Groenenberg, Sean D. Holland, Adam Karremans, Emily Moriarty Lemmon Franco Pupulin, Erik Smets, Barbara Gravendeel. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 129: 24-47. IF: 3.99

33. FROM TREE TOPS TO THE GROUND: REVERSALS TO TERRESTRIAL HABIT IN GALEANDRA ORCHIDS (EPIDENDROIDEAE: CATASETINAE)

Aline C. Martins, Thuane Bochorny, Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Guillaume Chomicki, Silvana H. N. Monetiro, Eric Smidt. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 127: 952-960. IF: 3.99

32. IS AMAZONIA A ‘MUSEUM’ FOR NEOTROPICAL TREES? THE EVOLUTION OF THE BROWNEA CLADE (DETARIOIDEAE, LEGUMINOSAE)

Rowan Schley, Manuel de la Estrella, Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Anne Bruneau, Timothy Barraclough, Félix Forest, Bente Klitgaard. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 126: 279-292. IF: 3.99

31. A ROADMAP FOR GLOBAL SYNTHESIS OF THE PLANT TREE OF LIFE

Wolf L. Eiserhardt, Alexandre Antonelli, Dominic Bennett, Laura R. Botiguém J. Gordon Burleigh, Steven Dodsworth, Brian J. Enquist, Félix Forest, Jan T. Kim, Alexey M. Kozlov, Ilia J. Leitch, Brian S. Maitner, Siavash Mirarab, William H. Piel, Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Lisa Pokorny, Carsten Rahbek, Brody Sandel, Stephen Smith, Alexandros Stamatakis, Rutger A Vos, Tandy Warnow, William J. Baker. American Journal of Botany 105:  614-622. IF: 2.84

30. SHAPE-SHIFTING IN SOLANACEAE FLOWERS: THE INFLUENCE OF POLLINATORS

Steven Dodsworth, Andres Orejuela, Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Tiina Särkinen, Sandra Knapp*. Evolution 10.1111/evo.13416 (paper available here). IF: 3.57

29. DRIVERS OF CORAL DIVERSIFICATION IN A MAJOR MARINE BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT

Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Susanna Cass, Steven Dodsworth*. Evolution 10.1111/evo.13419. IF: 3.57

2017

28. MULTIPLE GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGINS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SEX DETERMINATION ENHANCED THE DIVERSIFICATION OF DARWIN’S FAVOURITE ORCHIDS

Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar*, Guillaume Chomicki, Fabien L Condamine, Jurriaan M de Vos*, Aline C Martins, Eric C Smidt, Bente Klitgård, Günter Gerlach, Jochen Heinrichs.  Scientific Reports 7: 1278 (open access). IF: 4.12

27.ANDEAN MOUNTAIN BUILDING DID NOT PRECLUDE DISPERSAL OF LOWLAND EPIPHYTIC ORCHIDS IN THE NEOTROPICS

Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar*, Marc Gottschling, Guillaume Chomicki, Fabien L Condamine, Bente B Klitgård, Emerson Pansarin, Günter Gerlach*. Scientific Reports 7: 4919 (open access). IF: 4.12

26. RECENT ORIGIN AND RAPID SPECIATION OF NEOTROPICAL ORCHIDS IN THE WORLD'S RICHEST PLANT BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT

Oscar Alejandro Pérez‐Escobar^*, Guillaume Chomicki^*, Fabien L Condamine, Adam P Karremans, Diego Bogarín, Nicholas J Matzke, Daniele Silvestro, Alexandre Antonelli. New Phytologist 215: 891-905 (open access) - Altmetric score of 61 with a high attention score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile). IF: 7.43

25. A NEW SPECIES OF TELIPOGON (ONCIDIINAE; ORCHIDACEAE) FROM THE PARAMOS OF COLOMBIA

Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar*, Lizeth Katherine Rodriguez, Carlos Martel. Phytotaxa 305: 262-268. IF: 1.18

24. A BURMESE AMBER FOSSIL OF RADULA (PORELLALES, JUNGERMANNIOPSIDA) PROVIDES INSIGHTS INTO THE CRETACEOUS EVOLUTION OF EPIPHYTIC LINEAGES OF LEAFY LIVERWORTS

Julia Bechteler, Alexander R Schmidt, Matthew AM Renner, Bo Wang, Oscar A. Pérez-Escobar, Alfons Schäfer-Verwimp, Kathrin Feldberg, Jochen Heinrichs*. Fossil Record 20: 201-213 (open access). IF: 0.66

2016

23. GEOGRAPHICAL STRUCTURE, NARROW SPECIES RANGES, AND CENOZOIC DIVERSIFICATION IN A PANTROPICAL CLADE OF EPIPHYLLOUS LEAFY LIVERWORTS

Julia Bechteler, Alfons Schäfer‐Verwimp, Gaik Ee Lee, Kathrin Feldberg, Oscar A. Pérez‐Escobar, Tamás Pócs, Denilson F Peralta, Matthew AM Renner, Jochen Heinrichs*. Ecology and Evolution 7: 638-656 (open access). IF: 2.00

22. A PHYLOGENY OF CEPHALOZIACEAE (JUNGERMANNIOPSIDA) BASED ON NUCLEAR AND CHLOROPLAST DNA MARKERS

Kathrin Feldberg, Jiří Váňa, Johanna Krische, Juliane Kretschmann, Simon DF Patzak, Oscar A Pérez-Escobar, Nicole R Rudolf, Nathan Seefelder, Alfons Schäfer-Verwimp, David G Long, Harald Schneider, Jochen Heinrichs*. Organisms Diversity and Evolution 16: 727-742. IF: 2.17

21. SEX AND THE CATASETINAE (DARWIN’S FAVOURITE ORCHIDS)

Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Marc Gottschling, W Mark Whitten, Gerardo Salazar, Günter Gerlach. Molecular Phyogenetics and Evolution 96: 1-10. IF: 4.41

2015

20. RUMBLING ORCHIDS: HOW TO ASSESS DIVERGENT EVOLUTION BETWEEN CHLOROPLAST ENDOSYMBIONTS AND THE NUCLEAR HOST

Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Juan Antonio Balbuena, Marc Gottschling. Systematic Biology 65: 51-65 (open access). IF: 8.22

19. STRONG BIOGEOGRAPHIC SIGNAL IN THE PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF ROCHEFORTIA SW.(EHRETIACEAE, BORAGINALES)

Ramona Iridia, Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Marc Gottschling*. Plant Systematics and Evolution 301: 1509-1516. IF: 1.30

2014

18. REDISCOVERY OF MALAXIS NANA (ORCHIDACEAE: MALAXIDEAE) IN COSTA RICA, WITH AN UPDATED DESCRIPTION

Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar*, Mario A. Blanco. Lankesteriana 14: 109-114 (open access)

2013

17. A NEW SPECIES OF LEPANTHES (PLEUROTHALLIDINAE, ORCHIDACEAE) FROM COLOMBIA

Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar*, Marta Kolanowska, Cristian Rincón-Useche.  Systematic Botany 38: 316-319. IF: 1.00

16. LEPANTHES ELIZABETHAE (PLEUROTHALLIDINAE, ORCHIDACEAE), A NEW SPECIES FROM COLOMBIA

Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar*, Marta Kolanowska, Edicson Parra-Sanchez.  Phytotaxa 79: 58–62 (open access). IF: 1.00

2012

15. A NEW SPECIES OF LOCKHARTIA (ORCHIDACEAE) FROM COLOMBIA

Marta Kolanowska*, Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar. Systematic Botany 37: 347–351. IF: 1.366

14. A NEW SPECIES OF CAMPYLOCENTRUM (ORCHIDACEAE: ANGRAECINAE) FROM COLOMBIA

Marta Kolanowska*, Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Edicson Parra-Sánchez. Lankesteriana 12: 9-11 (open access)

2011

13. ANATHALLIS MURICAUDATA (LUER) PRIDGEON & M. W. CHASE, UNA RARA ESPECIE DE LA RESERVA BOSQUE DE YOTOCO

Marta Kolanowska, Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Edicson Parra-Sánchez.  Orquideología 28: 31-35 (open access)

12. UNA NUEVA Y PECULIAR ESPECIE DE LEPANTHES (ORCHIDACEAE) DE COLOMBIA

Pedro Ortiz, Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Edicson Parra-Sánchez. Orquideología 28: 22-26 (open access)

11. PRIMER REPORTE DE TELIPOGON LANKESTERI AMES (ORCHIDACEAE) PARA COLOMBIA

Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Edicson Parra-Sánchez, Marta Kolanowska, Pedro Ortiz-Valdivieso. Orquideología 28: 36-40 (open access)

2010

10. LEPANTHES CAETANOAE (PLEUROTHALLIDINAE: ORCHIDACEAE) UNA NUEVA ESPECIE DE LA REGIÓN SUBANDINA DE COLOMBIA

Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Edicson Parra-Sánchez, Marta Kolanowska.  Orquideología 27: 46-50

9. LEPANTHES ORTIZIANA (PLEUROTHALLIDINAE: ORCHIDACEAE) UNA NUEVA ESPECIE DE LOS BOSQUES DE NIEBLA DE LA REGIÓN SUBANDINA DE COLOMBIA

Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Edicson Parra-Sánchez. Orquideología 27: 221-232

8. PRIMER REPORTE DE LEPANTHES STELLARIS LUER & HIRTZ (ORCHIDACEAE) PARA COLOMBIA

Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Edicson Parra-Sánchez, Pedro Ortíz-Valdivieso, Lisa Thoerle. Orquideologia 27: 95-99

7. UNA NUEVA ESPECIE DE ACIANTHERA (ORCHIDACEAE) DE COLOMBIA

Pedro Ortíz-Valdivieso, Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Edicson Parra-Sánchez. Orquideología 27: 55-62

2009

6. INVENTARIO ORQUIDEOLÓGICO DE LA RESERVA BOSQUE DE YOTOCO, VALLE DEL CAUCA

Oscar Alejandro Pérez Escobar, Edicson Parra-Sánchez, Pedro Ortiz-Valdivieso.  Acta Agronómica 58: 189-196 (open access)

5. A NEW AND INTERESTING SPECIES OF LEPANTHES (ORCHIDACEAE) FROM COLOMBIA

Pedro Ortíz-Valdivieso, Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Edicson Parra-Sánchez.

Orquideología 26: 141-143 (open access)

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

4. MINING THREATENS COLOMBIAN ECOSYSTEMS

Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar*, Rodrigo Cámara-Leret, Alexandre Antonelli, Richard Bateman, Sidonie Bellot, Guillaume Chomicki, Antoine Cleef, Mauricio Diazgranados, Steven Dodsworth, Carlos Jaramillo, Santiago Madriñan, Ingrid Olivares, Alejandro Zuluaga, Rodrigo Bernal. Science 359:  1475 - Altmetric score of 161 with a high attention score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile). IF: 33.61

MONOGRAPHS

3. ICONES ORCHIDACEARUM FASCICLE 14: THE GENUS EPIDENDRUM, PART 10

Eric Hagsater, Elizabeth Santiago Ayala, Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Luis Sánchez-Saldaña, Benjamín Colgantes-Meza, Pedro Ortiz-Valdivieso, Miguel Chocce-Peña, Edicson Parra-Sánchez

Adam P. Karremans, Ricardo Fernández-Gonzales, Thiago E. C. Meneguzzo, Marta Kolanowska, Margoth E. Acuña Tarazona, Luis E. Álvarez, Stig Dalström, Callaway H. Dodson, Melanina Fernández, Duván Andrés García-Ramírez, Hugo Medina, Rolando Mormontoy, William Nauray, Cristian C. Rincón-Useche, Saúl Ruíz Pérez, Maite Serguera-Niño, Christina M. Smith, Marcial Villafuerte, Nanette Vega-Vera, Florian Werner. 2013. Herbarium AMO, Insituto Chinoin, Mexico City, Mexico. (available here)

2. ICONES ORCHIDACEARUM FASCICLE 13: THE GENUS EPIDENDRUM, PART 9

Eric Hagsater, Elizabeth Santiago-Ayala, Luis Sánchez-Saldaña, Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Miguel Chocce, Rolando Jiménez-Machorro, Gloria Calatayud, Benjamín Collantes, Calaway H. Dodson

Rudolf Jenny, Adam Karremans, Thiago E. C. Meneguzzo, Delsy Trujillo. 2010. Herbarium AMO,Instituto Chinoin, Mexico City, Mexico. (available here)

BOOKS

1. AN ILLUSTRATED FIELD GUIDE TO THE ORCHIDS OF THE YOTOCO FOREST RESERVE (COLOMBIA)

Marta Kolanowska, Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Edicson Parra-Sánchez, Dariusz L. Szlachetko. 2011. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego. Gdansk, Poland. 293 p. (available for purchase here)

^equal contribution; *corresponding author.