Publications

Cover features: PI Ekwealor and collaborators' paper on parasitic plants was featured on the May 2026 issue. Our 2024 IJPS Coulter Review was featured on the cover of the July 2024 issue. PI Ekwealor's artwork made the cover of the APPS special issue Methodologies in Gametophyte Biology.

Rose A. Marks, R. Shawn Abrahams, Jenna T. B. Ekwealor (2026). Shaped by context: Evolutionary trajectories of desiccation tolerance in land plants. American Journal of Botany.

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Jenna T. B. Ekwealor, Kevin A. Simonin (2026). Growth–defence trade-off defines a diffusion limit. A commentary on ‘Boundary-line trade-off in bryophytes between UV photoprotection and photosynthetic capacity, but not desiccation tolerance’. Annals of Botany.

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Kirsten K. Coe, Lloyd R. Stark, Mandy L. Slate, John C. Brinda, D. Nicholas McLetchie, Jenna T. B. Ekwealor (2025). Influence of prehydration events on revival of the dryland moss Syntrichia caninervis desiccated for 17 years: does water content matter?. The Bryologist.

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Adam C. Schneider, Jenna T. B. Ekwealor, Ariana Besik, Nurulain Ibrahim, Ingo Ensminger, Saša Stefanović (2025). Photosynthetic activity in the heterotrophic plant genus Cuscuta (Convolvulaceae) is modulated by phylogeny and ontogeny. Annals of Botany.

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Rose A. Marks, Jenna T. B. Ekwealor, Mariana A. S. Artur, Luis Bondi, Thomas C. Boothby, Olivia M. S. Carmo, Danilo C. Centeno, Kirsten K. Coe, Halford J. W. Dace, S. Field, A. Hutt, Stefan Porembski, A. Thalhammer, Llewelyn van der Pas, Andrew J. Wood, Peter Alpert, D. Bartels, Steven Boeynaems, Mandar N. Datar, Tabea Giese, W. I. Seidou, S. M. Kirchner, Julius Köhler, U. G. V. S. S. Kumara, Jinseul Kyung, Rafe Lyall, Joelle B. V. T. Ndongmo, M. S. Otegui, Viloshanie Reddy, J. Rexroth, Shandry M. Tebele, Robert VanBuren, Jerome Verdier, Ute C. Vothknecht, M. F. Wittenberg, E. Zokov, Seung Y. Rhee, Brent D. Mishler, Anderson T. Silva, Li'ang Yu, Andrea K. Jones, Andrew D. L. Nelson, Melvin J. Oliver (2025). Life on the dry side: a roadmap to understanding desiccation tolerance and accelerating translational applications. Nature Communications.

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Jenna T. B. Ekwealor, Kirsten M. Fisher (2024). Reproduction and population dynamics in autonomous gametophytes. International Journal of Plant Sciences.

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Xiaodan Zhang, Jenna T. B. Ekwealor, Brent D. Mishler, Anderson T. Silva, Li'ang Yu, Andrea K. Jones, Andrew D. L. Nelson, Melvin J. Oliver (2024). Syntrichia ruralis: emerging model moss genome reveals a conserved and previously unknown regulator of desiccation in flowering plants. New Phytologist.

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Jenna T. B. Ekwealor, Scott W. Roy (2023). Sex chromosomes: How to make a hermaphrodite. Current Biology.

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Rebecca B. Dikow, Jenna T. B. Ekwealor, William J. B. Mattingly, Michael G. Trizna, Elizabeth Harmon, Torsten Dikow, Carlos F. Arias, Richard G. J. Hodel, Jennifer Spillane, Mirian T. N. Tsuchiya, Luis Villanueva, Alexander E. White, Madeline G. Bursell, Tiana Curry, Christelle Inema, Kayla Geronimo-Anctil (2023). Let the records show: Attribution of scientific credit in natural history collections. International Journal of Plant Sciences.

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Jenna T. B. Ekwealor, Simone D. Benjamin, Jordan Z. Jomsky, Matthew A. Bowker, Lloyd R. Stark, D. Nicholas McLetchie, Brent D. Mishler, Kirsten M. Fisher (2022). Genotypic confirmation of a biased phenotypic sex ratio in a dryland moss using restriction fragment length polymorphisms. Applications in Plant Sciences – Gametophyte Biology. *Cover feature.

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Jenna T. B. Ekwealor, Brent D. Mishler (2021). Transcriptomic effects of acute ultraviolet radiation exposure on two Syntrichia mosses. Frontiers in Plant Science – Plant Abiotic Stress.

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Jenna T. B. Ekwealor, Theresa A. Clark, Oliver Dautermann, Alexander Russell, Sotodeh Ebrahimi, Lloyd R. Stark, Krishna K. Niyogi, Brent D. Mishler (2021). Natural ultraviolet radiation exposure alters photosynthetic biology and improves recovery from desiccation in a desert moss. Journal of Experimental Botany.

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Anderson T. Silva, Bei Gao, Kirsten M. Fisher, Brent D. Mishler, Jenna T. B. Ekwealor, Lloyd R. Stark, Xiaoshuang Li, Daoyuan Zhang, Matthew A. Bowker, John C. Brinda, Kirsten K. Coe, Melvin J. Oliver (2020). To dry perchance to live: insights from the genome of the desiccation-tolerant biocrust moss Syntrichia caninervis. The Plant Journal.

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Jenna T. B. Ekwealor, Kirsten M. Fisher (2020). Life under quartz: Hypolithic mosses in the Mojave Desert. PLOS ONE.

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Jenna T. B. Ekwealor, Adam Payton, Amber Paasch, Kirsten M. Fisher, Stuart McDaniel (2017). Multiple factors influence population sex ratios in the Mojave Desert moss Syntrichia caninervis. American Journal of Botany, 104(5).

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Pierre P. Eleniste, Vruti Patel, Sumana Posritong, Odette Zero, Heather Largura, Ying-Hua Cheng, Evan R. Himes, Matthew Hamilton, Jenna T. B. Ekwealor, Melissa A. Kacena, Angela Bruzzaniti (2015). Pyk2 and megakaryocytes regulate osteoblast differentiation and migration via distinct and overlapping mechanisms. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, 117.

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Tomas E. Meijome, Jenna T. B. Ekwealor, R. Adam Hooker, Ying-Hua Cheng, Wendy A. Ciovacco, Sanjeev M. Balamohan, Trishya L. Srinivasan, Brahmananda R. Chitteti, Pierre P. Eleniste, Mark C. Horowitz, Edward F. Srour, Angela Bruzzaniti, Robyn K. Fuchs, Melissa A. Kacena (2015). C-Mpl is expressed on osteoblasts and osteoclasts and is important in regulating skeletal homeostasis. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, 117.

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