Jeffrey D. Palmer

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Indiana University

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms Plant Diversity and Evolution Mitochondrial Function and Pathology Genetic diversity and population structure

Publications

247

Citations

44,675

Est. group size

—

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Active years

Publishing since 1979

Research summary

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Jeffrey D. Palmer studies plant genome evolution, with a focus on the DNA found in cellular organelles such as mitochondria (the cell's energy compartments) and chloroplasts (where photosynthesis occurs). His work uses genetic sequences to reconstruct evolutionary relationships among plants and to investigate unusual processes like horizontal gene transfer, where genetic material moves between unrelated organisms. He examines how organelle genomes rearrange, shrink, or transfer genes to the cell nucleus across diverse plant lineages.

Plant organelle (mitochondrial and chloroplast) genome evolutionPhylogenetics and evolutionary relationships of seed and land plantsHorizontal gene transfer in plantsGene transfer from organelles to the nucleusMolecular evolution and genome rearrangement

Publication activity has been low and slowing over the last decade, with roughly one to two papers per year through 2022 and little activity since.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.4/year recently

Recent publications

Comparison of Early versus Late Below Knee Amputation After Trauma With Standardized Prosthetic Care.
PubMed · 2022
Phylogenetics of Seed Plants: An Analysis of Nucleotide Sequences from the Plastid Gene rbcL
Scholar Works (Boise State University) · 2021
Horizontal gene transfers dominate the functional mitochondrial gene space of a holoparasitic plant
New Phytologist · 2020
Organellomic data sets confirm a cryptic consensus on (unrooted) land‐plant relationships and provide new insights into bryophyte molecular evolution
American Journal of Botany · 2019
Chloroplast DNA and Phylogenetic Relationships
2019
High and Variable Rates of Repeat-Mediated Mitochondrial Genome Rearrangement in a Genus of Plants
Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2018
Mitochondrial Retroprocessing Promoted Functional Transfers of rpl5 to the Nucleus in Grasses
Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2017
<i>Ginkgo</i>and<i>Welwitschia</i>Mitogenomes Reveal Extreme Contrasts in Gymnosperm Mitochondrial Evolution
Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2016
2016.Ginkgo and Welwitschia Mitogenomes Reveal Extreme Contrasts in Gymnosperm Mitochondrial Evolution.Suppl
2016

Publishes in

Molecular Biology and Evolution×3
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences×1
New Phytologist×1
BMC Biology×1
BMC Plant Biology×1

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Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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