Understanding plant speciation and diversification patterns
Biodiversity and Evolution
I am interested in understanding speciation and diversification patterns of plants, questioning the role of adaptation in the emergence and the maintenance of species boundaries. This includes the analysis of intra and interspecific diversity for conservation purposes or for phylogeographic analyses using various molecular markers from different genomes (nucleus, chloroplast, mitochondria).
Recent Publications
- A 638-gene phylogeny supports the recognition of twice as many species in the Malagasy endemic genus Capurodendron (Sapotaceae)
Boluda, Carlos G.; Christe, Camille; Naciri, Yamama; Gautier, Laurent
Taxon 10.1002/tax.12676 APR 2022 - A taxonomic revision of Ranunculus sect. Batrachium in Corsica: a morphological and statistical analysis
Jeanmonod, Daniel; Naciri, Yamama
Candollea 10.15553/c2021v762a9 DEC 2021 - Species Delimitation and Conservation in Taxonomically Challenging Lineages: The Case of Two Clades of Capurodendron (Sapotaceae) in Madagascar
Boluda, Carlos G.; Christe, Camille; Randriarisoa, Aina; Gautier, Laurent; Naciri, Yamama
Plants-basel 10.3390/plants10081702 AUG 2021 - Phylogeographic reconstructions can be biased by ancestral shared alleles: The case of the polymorphic lichen Bryoria fuscescens in Europe and North Africa
Boluda, Carlos G.; Rico, Victor J.; Naciri, Yamama; Hawksworth, David L.; Scheidegger, Christoph
Molecular Ecology 10.1111/mec.16078 OCT 2021 - Usnea dasopoga (Ach.) Nyl. and U. barbata (L.) F. H. Wigg. (Ascomycetes, Parmeliaceae) are two different species: a plea for reliable identifications in molecular studies
Clerc, Philippe; Naciri, Yamama
Lichenologist 10.1017/S0024282921000128 MAY 2021 - New genetic markers for Sapotaceae phylogenomics: More than 600 nuclear genes applicable from family to population levels
Christe, Camille; Boluda, Carlos G.; Koubinova, Darina; Gautier, Laurent; Naciri, Yamama
Molecular Phylogenetics And Evolution 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107123 JUL 2021 - Labramia ambondrombeensis (Sapotaceae), a Critically Endangered new species from Madagascar
Randriarisoa, Aina; Naciri, Yamama; Gautier, Laurent
Candollea 10.15553/c2020v751a8 Published: JUN 2020 - The genetics of evolutionary radiations
Naciri, Yamama; Linder, H. Peter
Biological Reviews DOI: 10.1111/brv.12598 2020 - Species delimitation in the East Asian species of the relict tree genus Zelkova (Ulmaceae): A complex history of diversification and admixture among species
Naciri, Y; Christe, C; Betrisey, S; Song, YG; Deng, M; Garfi, G; Kozlowski, G
MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION, 134 172-185; 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.02.010 MAY 2019 - New insights into the Usnea cornuta aggregate (Parmeliaceae, lichenized Ascomycota): Molecular analysis reveals high genetic diversity correlated with chemistry
Gerlach, ADL; Toprak, Z; Naciri, Y; Caviro, EA; da Silveira, RMB; Clerc,P
MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION, 131 125-137; 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.035 FEB 2019 - Three Critically Endangered new species of Capurodendron (Sapotaceae) from Madagascar
Gautier, Laurent; Naciri, Yamama
CANDOLLEA, 73 (1):121-129; 10.15553/c2018v731a13 JUN 2018 - Morphological convergence in the recently diversified Silene gigantea complex (Caryophyllaceae) in the Balkan Peninsula and south-western Turkey, with the description of a new subspecies
Du Pasquier, Pierre-Emmanuel; Jeanmonod, Daniel; Naciri, Yamama
BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, 183 (3): 474-493 10.1093/botlinnean/bow016 MAR 1 2017 - A phylogenetic circumscription of Silene sect. Siphonomorpha (Caryophyllaceae) in the Mediterranean Basin
Naciri, Yamama; Du Pasquier, Pierre-Emmanuel; Lundberg, Magnus; et al.
TAXON, 66 (1): 91-108 https://doi.org/10.12705/661.5 FEB 2017 - Evolutionary histories determine DNA barcoding success in vascular plants: seven case studies using intraspecific broad sampling of closely related species
Wyler, Sofia Caetano; Naciri, Yamama
BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, 16: MAY 13 2016 - Species delimitation and relationships: The dance of the seven veils
Naciri, Yamama; Linder, H. Peter
TAXON 64 (1): 3-16 10.12705/641.24 MAR 2015 - Patterns of diversification amongst tropical regions compared: a case study in Sapotaceae (vol 5, pg 362, 2014)
Armstrong, KE; Stone, GN; Nicholls, JA; Valderrama, E; Anderberg, AA; Smedmark, J; Gautier, L; Naciri, Y; Milne, R; Richardson, JE
FRONTIERS IN GENETICS Volume: 6 Article Number: 86 10.3389/fgene.2015.00086 MAR 5 2015 - …

Dr. Yamama Naciri
Conservatoire et Jardins botaniques de Genève
Department of Plant Sciences
1292 Geneva
Tel: +41 (0)22 418 51 65
Publications
Research topics
- Genetic diversity and phylogeography
- Speciation patterns
- DNA barcoding
- Conservation genetics
Interdisciplinary
- Quantitative genetics
- Plant ecology
- Population genetics