Yuan, Y. W., Liu, C., Marx, H.E., and Olmstead, R. G., 2009. An empirical demonstration of using pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) genes as plant phylogenetic tools: Phylogeny of Verbenaceae and the Verbena complex. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution in press.
Yuan, Y. W., Liu, C., Marx, H.E., and Olmstead, R. G., 2009. The pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) gene family, a tremendous resource for plant phylogenetic studies. New Phytologist 182(1): 272-283.
Tank, D.C., Egger, J.M., and Olmstead, R. G., 2009. Phylogenetic Classification of Subtribe Castillejinae (Orobanchaceae). Syst. Bot. 34(1): 182-197.
Olmstead, R. G., Bohs, L., Migid, H.A., Santiago-Valentin, E., Garcia, V.F., Collier, S.M., 2008. A molecular phylogeny of the Solanaceae. Taxon 57(4): 1159-1181.
Yuan, Y. W. and Olmstead, R. G., 2008. Evolution and phylogenetic utility of the PHOT gene duplicates in the Verbena complex (Verbenaceae): dramatic intron size variation and footprint of ancestral recombination. Am. J. Bot. 95(9): 1166-1176.
Yuan, Y. W. and Olmstead, R. G., 2008. A Species-level Phylogenetic Study of the Verbena complex (Verbenaceae) Indicates Two Independent Intergeneric Chloroplast Transfers. Mol. Phylogen. Evol. 48(1): 23-33.
Rai, H.S., Reeves, P.A., Peakall, R., Olmstead, R.G., Graham, S.W., 2008. Inference of higher-order conifer relationships from a multi-locus plastid data set. Botany-Botanique. 86(7): 658-669.
Tank, D.C. and Olmstead, R. G., 2008. From annuals to perennials: Phylogeny of subtribe Castillejinae (Orobanchaceae). Am. J. Bot. 95(5): 608-625.
Cantino, P.D. and Olmstead, R. G., 2008. Application of phylogenetically defined names does not require that every specifier be present on a tree. Syst. Biol. 57(1): 157-160.
Cantino, P.D., Doyle, J.A., Graham, S.W., Judd, W.S., Olmstead, R.G., Soltis, D.E., Soltis, P.S., Donoghue, M.J., 2007. Towards a phylogenetic nomenclature of Tracheophyta. Taxon 56(3): 822-846.
Grose, S.O. and Olmstead, R. G., 2007. Evolution of a charismatic neotropical clade: molecular phylogeny of Tabebuia s.l., Crescentieae, and allied genera (Bignoniaceae). Syst. Bot. 32(3): 650-659.
Grose, S.O. and Olmstead, R. G., 2007. Taxonomic revisions in the polyphyletic genus Tabebuia s.l. (Bignoniaceae). Syst. Bot. 32(3): 660-670.
Yuan, Y. W., Zhang, Z. Y., Chen, Z. D., Olmstead, R. G., 2006. Tracking Ancient Polyploids: A Retroposon Insertion Reveals an Extinct Diploid Ancestor in the Polyploid Origin of Belladonna. Mol. Biol. Evol. 23(12):2263-2267.
Olmstead, R. G. 2006. Multidimensional systematists: 21st Century systematics in a time of rapid progress. Syst. Bot. 31: 437-439.
Tank, D. C., P. Beardsley, S. Kelchner, and R. G. Olmstead. 2006. L.A.S. Johnson Review No, 7. Review of the systematics of Scrophulariaceae s.l. and their current disposition. Australian Syst. Bot. 19: 1-19.
Graham, S. W., J. M. Zgurski, M. A. McPherson, D. M. Cherniawsky, J. M. Saarela, E. S. C. Horne, S. Y. Smith, W. A. Wong, H. E. O’Brien, V. L. Biron, J. C. Pires, R. G. Olmstead, M. W. Chase, and H. S. Rai. 2006. Robust inference of monocot deep phylogeny using an expanded multigene plastid data set. Aliso 22: 3-20.
Nie, Z.-L., J. Wen,, H. Sun., P. Beardsley, and R. G. Olmstead. 2006. Evolution of biogeographic disjunction between eastern Asia and eastern North America in Phryma L. (Phrymaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 93: 1183-1196.