Colin E. Hughes

University of Zurich — Switzerland

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Plant Diversity and Evolution(65), Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics(38), Plant and animal studies(33), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(23), Genetic diversity and population structure(22)

Publications167 total

The complex interaction between megaherbivores, climate and fire has shaped the evolution and distribution of plant spinescence across biogeographical realms
2025Open Access
WCVP: Fabaceae checklist
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2025Open Access
Mosquito sex determination: recent advances and applications
Current Opinion in Insect Science·2025· 1 cited
Legumes
Current Biology·2025· 7 citedOpen Access
Continuous colonization of the Atlantic coastal rain forests of South America from Amazônia
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Advances in Legume Systematics 14. Classification of Caesalpinioideae. Part 2: Higher-level classification
PhytoKeys·2024· 47 citedOpen Access
Wattles on the move
NeoBiota·2024Open Access
Pleistocene diversification of unifoliolate‐leaved <i>Lupinus</i> (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae) in Florida
Molecular Ecology·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
WCVP: Fabaceae checklist
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
WCVP: Fabaceae checklist
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2023Open Access
Precipitation is the main axis of tropical plant phylogenetic turnover across space and time
Science Advances·2023· 70 citedOpen Access
Supplementary Materials for Precipitation is the main axis of tropical plant phylogenetic turnover across space and time
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2023Open Access
Editorial
PhytoKeys·2022· 5 citedOpen Access
Dilemmas in generic delimitation of Senegalia and allies (Caesalpinioideae, mimosoid clade): how to reconcile phylogenomic evidence with morphology and taxonomy?
PhytoKeys·2022· 14 citedOpen Access
Disintegration of the genus Prosopis L. (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae, mimosoid clade)
PhytoKeys·2022· 97 citedOpen Access
Boliviadendron, a new segregate genus of mimosoid legume (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae, mimosoid clade) narrowly endemic to the interior Andean valleys of Bolivia
PhytoKeys·2022· 3 citedOpen Access
Re-establishment of the genus Pseudalbizzia (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae, mimosoid clade): the New World species formerly placed in Albizia
PhytoKeys·2022· 12 citedOpen Access
Mezcala – a new segregate genus of mimosoid legume (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae, mimosoid clade) narrowly endemic to the Balsas Depression in Mexico
PhytoKeys·2022· 5 citedOpen Access
Phylogenomic analysis of 997 nuclear genes reveals the need for extensive generic re-delimitation in Caesalpinioideae (Leguminosae)
PhytoKeys·2022· 71 citedOpen Access
The innovation of the symbiosome has enhanced the evolutionary stability of nitrogen fixation in legumes
New Phytologist·2022· 66 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

R. Toby Pennington(15), Erik J. M. Koenen(12), Gwilym P. Lewis(12), Anne Bruneau(10), Luciano Paganucci de Queiroz(10), Marcelo Fragomeni Simon(10), Matt Lavin(9), C. Donovan Bailey(7), Jens J. Ringelberg(7), Melissa Luckow(6), Daniel J. Murphy(5), Jan J. Wieringa(5), Martin F. Wojciechowski(5), Tiina Särkinen(5), Guy W. Atchison(5), Ruth J. Eastwood(4), Domingos Cardoso(4), Alfonso Delgado‐Salinas(4), Ashley N. Egan(4), Dmitry A. Filatov(4)