Erin Sigel

Erin Sigel

Collections Manager of the Hodgdon Herbarium, UNH Collections
Collections Manager, Albion R. Hodgdon Herbarium
Phone: (603) 862-2809
Office: Spaulding Hall, Room 201l, Durham, NH 03824
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Courses Taught

  • BIOL 409: Intro to Botanical Sciences
  • BIOL 566: Systematic Botany

Selected Publications

  • Sigel, E. M., Mendez-Reneau, J. I., Sutherland, B. L., Schwartsburd, P. B., Holt, S. D., & Beck, J. B. (2025). Being ghosted: determining the progenitor genomes and biogeographic origin of the invasive fern giant salvinia. Biological Invasions, 27(5). doi:10.1007/s10530-025-03580-x

  • Mendez-Reneau, J. I., Richards, J. L., Hobbie, J., Bollich, E., Kooyers, N. J., & Sigel, E. M. (2024). Lineage diversification and rampant hybridization among subspecies explain taxonomic confusion in the endemic Hawaiian fern Polypodium pellucidum.. Am J Bot, 111(9), e16379. doi:10.1002/ajb2.16379

  • Nichols, W. F., Barrett, C. F., Wipff, J. K., Sánchez-Ken, J. G., Knapp, W. M., Sigel, E. M., . . . Corbett, C. (2024). Molecular and Taxonomic Reevaluation of the Digitaria filiformis Complex (Poaceae), Including a Globally Extinct, Single-Site Endemic from New Hampshire, USA, and a New Species from Mexico. Systematic Botany, 49(2), 318-333. doi:10.1600/036364424x17189138775920

  • Holt, S. D., Sigel, E. M., Sutherland, B. L., Schwartsburd, P. B., & Beck, J. B. (2023). What is Salvinia molesta (Salviniaceae)? Determining the maternal progenitor and genetic diversity of the clonal invasive fern giant salvinia. Biological Invasions, 25(7), 2131-2141. doi:10.1007/s10530-023-03028-0

  • Mendez-Reneau, J., Gordon Burleigh, J., & Sigel, E. M. (2023). Target Capture Methods Offer Insight into the Evolution of Rapidly Diverged Taxa and Resolve Allopolyploid Homeologs in the Fern Genus Polypodium s.s.. Systematic Botany, 48(1), 96-109. doi:10.1600/036364423x16758873924135

  • Leebens-Mack, J. H., Barker, M. S., Carpenter, E. J., Deyholos, M. K., Gitzendanner, M. A., Graham, S. W., . . . Transcriptomes, O. T. P. (2019). One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants. NATURE, 574(7780), 679-+. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1693-2

  • Li, F. -W., Brouwer, P., Carretero-Paulet, L., Cheng, S., de Vries, J., Delaux, P. -M., . . . Pryer, K. M. (2018). Fern genomes elucidate land plant evolution and cyanobacterial symbioses. NATURE PLANTS, 4(7), 460-472. doi:10.1038/s41477-018-0188-8

  • Schuettpelz, E., Schneider, H., Smith, A. R., Hovenkamp, P., Prado, J., Rouhan, G., . . . Grp, P. P. (2016). A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns. JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION, 54(6), 563-603. doi:10.1111/jse.12229

  • Rothfels, C. J., Li, F. -W., Sigel, E. M., Huiet, L., Larsson, A., Burge, D. O., . . . Pryer, K. M. (2015). The evolutionary history of ferns inferred from 25 low-copy nuclear genes. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY, 102(7), 1089-1107. doi:10.3732/ajb.1500089

  • Li, F. -W., Villarreal, J. C., Kelly, S., Rothfels, C. J., Melkonian, M., Frangedakis, E., . . . Pryer, K. M. (2014). Horizontal transfer of an adaptive chimeric photoreceptor from bryophytes to ferns. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 111(18), 6672-6677. doi:10.1073/pnas.1319929111

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