Louise A. Lewis

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Along the Nipmuk Trail in central Connecticut, Dec. 2006

Associate Professor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-3043

office: 200 Pharmacy/Biology Building
voice: +1 860-486-6723
fax: +1 860-486-6364
email: louise.lewis@uconn.edu

Research Interests

  • Systematics and evolution of green algae, especially terrestrial forms
  • Phylogeny of basal green plants
  • Biodiversity of desert green algae
  • Physiology of desert green algae

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Selected Publications

Lewis, L.A. (2007) Chlorophyta on land. Independent lineages of green eukaryotes from arid lands. In: J. Seckbach (ed.) Extremophilic Algae, Cyanobacteria and non-photosynthetic Protists: From Prokaryotes to Astrobiology. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.

Gray, D.W., Cardon, Z.G., and Lewis, L.A. 2006. Simultaneous collection of rapid chlorophyll fluorescence induction kinetics, fluorescence quenching parameters, and environmental data using an automated PAM-2000/CR10X data logging system. Photosynthesis Research 87: 295-301.

Lewis, L. A., and Lewis, P. O. 2005. Unearthing the molecular phylodiversity of desert soil green algae (Chlorophyta). Systematic Biology 54: 936-947.

Lewis, L. A., and Flechtner, V. R. 2004. Cryptic species of Scenedesmus (Chlorophyta) from desert soil communities of western North America. Journal of Phycology 40: 1127-1137.

Lewis, L. A., and McCourt, R. M. 2004. Green algae and the origin of land plants. American Journal of Botany 91: 1535-1556.

Lewis, L. A., and Muller-Parker, G. 2004. Phylogenetic placement of "Zoochlorellae" (Chlorophyta), algal symbiont of the temperate anemone Anthopleura elegantissima. Biological Bulletin 207: 87-92.

Shoup, S., and Lewis, L. A. 2003. Polyphyletic origin of parallel basal bodies in swimming cells of chlorophycean green algae (Chlorophyta). Journal of Phycology 39: 789-796.

Lewis, L. A., and Flechtner, V. R. 2002. Green algae (Chlorophyta) of desert microbiotic crusts: diversity of North American taxa. Taxon 51: 443-451.

Watanabe, S., Himizu, A., Lewis, L. A., Floyd, G. L., and Fuerst, P. A. 2000. Pseudoneochloris marina, a new coccoid Ulvophycean alga, and its phylogenetic position inferred from morphological and molecular data. Journal of Phycology 36: 596-604.

Lewis, L. A. 1997. Phylogenetic placement of Bracteacoccus based on 18S rDNA sequence data. Journal of Phycology 33: 279-28.

Lewis, L. A., Mishler, B. D., and Vilgalys, R. 1997. Phylogenetic relationships of the liverworts (Hepaticae), a basal embryophyte lineage, inferred from nucleotide sequence data of the chloroplast gene, rbcL. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 7: 377-393.

Hershkovitz, M. A. and Lewis, L. A. 1996. Deep-level diagnostic value of the rDNA-ITS region. Molecular Biology and Evolution 13: 1276- 1295.

Mishler, B. M., Lewis, L. A., Buchheim, M. A., Renzaglia, K. S., Garbary, D. J., Delwiche, C. F., Zechman, F. W., Kantz, T. S., and Chapman, R. L. 1994. Phylogenetic relationships of the "green algae" and "bryophytes". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 81: 451- 483.

Lewis, L. A., Wilcox, L. W., Fuerst, P. A., and Floyd, G. L. 1992. Concordance of molecular and ultrastructural data in the study of zoosporic green algae. Journal of Phycology 28: 375-380.