[Aquatic Plants: Systematics and evolution]

• Sarah B. Yakimowski, Spencer C. H. Barrett (2016) The role of hybridization in the evolution of sexual system diversity in a clonal, aquatic plant. Evolution 70(6): 1200?1211.
• Razifard et al. (2016) Evidence for the Transfer of Elatine rotundifolia to Linderniaceae. Systematic Botany 41(3):665-671.
• Chen et al. (2015) A phylogeny and biogeographic analysis for the Cape-Pondweed family Aponogetonaceae (Alismatales). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 82: 111?117.
• Petersen, G., Seberg, O., Cuenca, A., Stevenson, D. W., Thadeo, M., Davis, J. I., Graham, S. and Ross, T. G. (2015), Phylogeny of the Alismatales (Monocotyledons) and the relationship of Acorus (Acorales?). Cladistics. doi: 10.1111/cla.12120
• Les, D. H., E. L. Peredo, U. M. King, L. K. Benoit, N. P. Tippery, C. J. Ball and R. K. Shannon. (2015) Through thick and thin: Cryptic sympatric speciation in the submersed genus Najas (Hydrocharitaceae) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 82: 15-30.
• Nathan E. Harms, Dean A. Williams, Michael J. Grodowitz (2014) Genetic Relationships among Invasive Hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata L.f. Royle) Biotypes in the US and Their Implications for Management

• Petersen, Gitte; Seberg, Ole; Short, Frederick T.; Fortes, Miguel D. (2014) Complete genomic congruence but non-monophyly of Cymodocea (Cymodoceaceae), a small group of seagrasses. Taxon 63: 3-8.
• Iles WJ, Lee C, Sokoloff DD, Remizowa MV, Yadav SR, Barrett MD, Barrett RL, Macfarlane TD, Rudall PJ, Graham SW (2014) Reconstructing the age and historical biogeography of the ancient flowering-plant family Hydatellaceae (Nymphaeales). BMC Evolutionary Biology 14:102.
• Chen, L. Y., Zhao, S. Y., Mao, K. S., Les, D. H., Wang, Q. F., Moody, M. L. (2014) Historical biogeography of Haloragaceae: An out-of-Australia hypothesis with multiple intercontinental dispersals. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 78: 87-95.
• Lumbreras, Ana, Molina, Jose Antonio, Benavent, Alberto, Marticorena, Alicia, Pardo, Cristina. (2014) Disentangling the taxonomy and ecology of South American Ranunculus subgen. Batrachium. Aquatic Botany 114: 21-28.
• Josh Sulman, Bryan Drew, Chloe Drummond, Eisuke Hayasaka, Kenneth Sytsma. (2013) Systematics, biogeography, and character evolution of Sparganium (Typhaceae): Diversification of a widespread, aquatic lineage. American Journal of Botany 100: 2023-2039.
• Donald H. Les, Elena L. Peredo, Lori K. Benoit, Nicholas P. Tippery, Ursula M. King, and Sallie P. Sheldon. (2013) Phytogeography of Najas gracillima (Hydrocharitaceae) in North America and its cryptic introduction to California. American Journal of Botany 100: 1905-1915.

• Tippery. N. P. and D. H. Les (2013) Hybridization and systematics of dioecious North American Nymphoides (N. aquatica and N. cordata; Menyanthaceae). Aquatic Botany 104: 127-137.

• Les, D.H. and N.P. Tippery. (2013) In time and with water ... the systematics of alismatid monocotyledons. Pp. 118-164 in P. Wilkin, ed. Early Events in Monocot Evolution. Cambridge University Press.

• Zdenek Kaplan and Judith Fehrer (2013) Molecular identification of hybrids from a former hot spot of Potamogeton hybrid diversity. Aquatic Botany 105: 34-40.

• Ito, Y., T. Ohi-Toma, J. Murata and N. Tanaka (2013) Comprehensive phylogenetic analyses of the Ruppia maritima complex focusing on taxa from the Mediterranean. Journal of Plant Research 126: xxx-xxx.

• Ito, Y. and N. Tanaka (2013) Additional Potamogeton hybrids from China: Evidence from a comparison of chloroplast trnT-trnF and nuclear ITS phylogenies. APG: Acta Phytotaxonomica et Geobotanica 64: 15-28.

• Iles, W.J.D., P.J. Rudall, D.D. Sokoloff, M.V. Remizowa, T.D. Macfarlane, M.D Logacheva and S.W. Graham (2012) Molecular phylogenetics of Hydatellaceae (Nymphaeales): sexual-system homoplasy and a new sectional classification. American Journal of Botany 99: 663-676.

• Tania Aires, Nuria Marba, Regina L. Cunha, Gary A. Kendrick, Diana I. Walker, Ester A. Serrao, Carlos M. Duarte, Sophie Arnaud-Haond (2011)

• Tiffany S. Bone, Stephen R. Downie, James M. Affolter, and Krzysztof Spalik (2011) A Phylogenetic and Biogeographic Study of the Genus Lilaeopsis (Apiaceae Tribe. Oenantheae). Systematic Botany 36: 789-805.

• Kim, C. and H.-K. Choi (2011) Molecular systematics and character evolution of Typha (Typhaceae) inferred from nuclear and plastid DNA sequence data. Taxon 60: 1417-1428.

• Ito, Y. and N. Tanaka (2011) Hybridisation in a tropical seagrass genus, Halodule (Cymodoceaceae), inferred from plastid and nuclear DNA phylogenies. Telopea 13: 219-231.

• Tippery. N. P. and D. H. Les (2011) Evidence for the hybrid origin of Nymphoides montana Aston (Menyanthaceae). Telopea 13: 285-294.

• Thomas Borsch, Cornelia Lohne, Mame Samba Mbaye and John Wiersema (2011) Towards a complete species tree of Nymphaea: shedding further light on subg. Brachyceras and its relationships to the Australian water-lilies. Telopea 13: 193-217.

• Nils Arrigo, Sven Buerki, Anouk Sarr, Roberto Guadagnuolo, Gregor Kozlowski (2011) Phylogenetics and phylogeography of the monocot genus Baldellia (Alismataceae): Mediterranean refugia, suture zones and implications for conservation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58: 33-42.

• Yu Ito, Tetsuo Ohi-Toma, Jin Murata and Norio Tanaka (2010) Hybridization and polyploidy of an aquatic plant, Ruppia (Ruppiaceae), inferred from plastid and nuclear DNA phylogenies. American Journal of Botany 97: 1156-1167. (featured on cover)

• Donald H. Les, Sallie P. Sheldon and Nicholas P. Tippery (2010) Hybridization in Hydrophiles: Natural Interspecific Hybrids in Najas (Hydrocharitaceae). Systematic Botany 35: 736-744.

• Michael L. Moody and Donald Les (2010) Systematics of the Aquatic Angiosperm Genus Myriophyllum (Haloragaceae). Systematic Botany 35: 121-139.

• Reut M & Jobson RW (2010) A phylogenetic study of subgenus Polypompholyx: a parallel radiation of Utricularia (Lentibuariaceae) throughout Australasia. Australian Systematic Botany 23: 152-161.

• Christopher D. Preston & Pertti Uotila (2009) Sagittaria × lunata, a binomial for the widespread North European Hybrid between S. natans and S. sagittifolia (Alismataceae) Annales Botanici Fennici 46(3):215-230.

• Les, Donald H.; Murray, Nancy M.; Tippery, Nicholas P. (2009) Systematics of Two Imperiled Pondweeds (Potamogeton vaseyi, P. gemmiparus) and Taxonomic Ramifications for Subsection Pusilli (Potamogetonaceae). Systematic Botany 34: 643-651.

• Nathalie S. Nagalingum, Harald Schneider, Kathleen M. Pryer (2007) Molecular Phylogenetic Relationships and Morphological Evolution in the Heterosporous Fern Genus Marsilea. Systematic Botany 32: 16-25.

• Michael L. Moody and Donald Les (2007) Phylogenetic systematics and character evolution in the angiosperm family Haloragaceae. American Journal of Botany 94: 2005-2025.

• Thomas Borsch, Khidir W. Hilu, John H. Wiersema, Cornelia Lohne, Wilhelm Barthlott, Volker Wilde (2007) Phylogeny of Nymphaea (Nymphaeaceae): Evidence from substitutions and microstructural changes in the chloroplast trnT-trnF region. International Journal of Plant Sciences 168: 639-671.

• Charlotte Lindqvist, Jan De Laet, Robert R. Haynes, Lone Aagesen, Brian R. Keener, Victor A. Albert (2006) Molecular phylogenetics of an aquatic plant lineage, Potamogetonaceae. Cladistics 22: 568-588.

• Satoko Iida, Keiko Kosuge and Yasuro Kadono (2004) Molecular phylogeny of Japanese Potamogeton species in light of noncoding chloroplast sequences Aquatic Botany 80: 115-127.

• Eric Schuettpelz and Sara B. Hoot (2004) Phylogeny and biogeography of Caltha (Ranunculaceae) based on chloroplast and nuclear DNA sequences American Journal of Botany 91: 247-253.

• Norio Tanaka, Koichi Uehara and Jin Murata (2004) Correlation between pollen morphology and pollination mechanisms in the Hydrocharitaceae Journal of Plant Research 117: 265-276.

• Norio Tanaka, John Kuo, Yuji Omori, Masahiro Nakaoka and Keiko Aioi (2003) Phylogenetic relationships in the genera Zostera and Heterozostera (Zosteraceae) based on matK sequence data Journal of Plant Research 116: 273-279.

• D. J. Padgett, M. Shimoda, L. A. Horky, and D. H. Les (2002) Natural hybridization and the imperiled Nuphar of western Japan. Aquatic Botany 72: 161-174.

• Donald H. Les, Michael L. Moody, Surrey W. L. Jacobs, and Randall J. Bayer (2002) Systematics of Seagrasses (Zosteraceae) in Australia and New Zealand. Systematic Botany 27: 468-484.

• Cameron KM, K Wurdack, & RW Jobson (2002) Molecular evidence for the common origin of snap-traps among carnivorous plants. American Journal of Botany 89: 1503-1509.

• D. J. Padgett, D. H. Les and G. E. Crow (1999) Phylogenetic relationships in Nuphar Sm. (Nymphaeaceae): evidence from morphology, chloroplast DNA and nuclear ribosomal DNA. American Journal of Botany 86: 1316-1324.

• Donald H. Les, Edward L. Schneider, Donald J. Padgett, Pamela S. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis, Michael Zanis (1999) Phylogeny, Classification and Floral Evolution of Water Lilies (Nymphaeaceae; Nymphaeales): A Synthesis of Non-molecular, rbcL, rnatK, and 18s rDNA Data. Systematic Botany 24: (1): 28-46.

• Les, D. H., M. A. Cleland and M. Waycott (1997) Phylogenetic studies in Alismatidae, II: evolution of marine angiosperms (‘seagrasses’) and hydrophily. Systematic Botany 22: 443-463.

• Norio Tanaka, Hiroaki Setoguchi and Jin Murata (1997) Phylogeny of the family hydrocharitaceae inferred from rbcL and matK gene sequence data Journal of Plant Research 110: 329-337.

• Les DH, Garvin DK, Wimpee CF. (1993) Phylogenetic studies in the monocot subclass Alismatidae: evidence for areappraisal of the aquatic order Najadales. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 2: 304-314.