Publications

 
 

Tepe, E.J. 2018. A series of unfortunate events: the forgotten botanist and the misattribution of a type collection. PhytoKeys 109: 33–39. PDF

Jahner, J.P., M.L. Forister, T.L. Parchman, A.M. Smilanich, J.S. Miller, J.S. Wilson, T.R. Walla, E.J. Tepe, L.A. Richards, M.A. Quijano-Abril, A.E. Glassmire, and L.A. Dyer. 2017. Host conservatism, geography, and elevation in the evolution of a neotropical moth radiation. Evolution 71: 2885-2900.

Tepe, E.J., G.J. Anderson, D.M. Spooner, and L. Bohs. 2016. Relationships among wild relatives of the tomato and potato: a phylogeny of the Potato clade of the genus Solanum. Taxon 65: 262-276. PDF

Glassmire, A.E., C.S. Jeffrey, M.L. Forister, T. Parchman, C.C. Nice, J.P. Jahner, J.S. Wilson, T. Walla, L.A. Richards, A.M. Smilanich, C.R. Morrison, W. Simbaña, L.A. Salagaje , C. Dodson, J. Miller, M.D. Leonard, E.J. Tepe, S. Villamarin-Cortez, and L.A. Dyer. 2016. Intraspecific phytochemical variation shapes community and population structure for specialist caterpillars. New Phytologist 212: 208–219.

Tepe, E.J., G. Rodríguez-Castañeda, A.E. Glasmire, and L.A. Dyer. 2014. Piper kelleyi, a hotspot of ecological interactions and a new species from Ecuador and Peru. Phytokeys 34: 19–32. PDF

Bornstein, A.J., J.F. Smith, and E.J. Tepe. 2014. Two new species of Piper from the Greater Antilles. Systematic Botany 39: 10-16. PDF

Tepe, E.J. G. Ridley, and L. Bohs. 2012. A new species of Solanum named for Jeanne Baret, an overlooked contributor to the history of botany. PhytoKeys 8: 37-47. PDF

Wilson, J.S., M.L. Forister, L.A. Dyer, J.M. O’Connor, K. Burls, C.R. Feldman, M.A. Jaramillo, J.S. Miller, G. Rodríguez-Castañeda, E.J. Tepe, J.B. Whitfield, and B. Young. 2012. Host conservatism, host shifts and diversification across three trophic levels in two Neotropical forests. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25: 532-546. PDF

Tepe, E.J. and L. Bohs. 2011. A revision of Solanum sect. Herpystichum (Solanaceae). Systematic Botany 36: 1068-1087. PDF

Sanchez-Puerta, M.V., C.C. Abbona, S. Zhuo, E.J. Tepe, L. Bohs, R.Olmstead, and J.D. Palmer. 2011. Multiple recent horizontal transfers of the cox1 intron in the Solanaceae and extended co-conversion of flanking exons. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11:227. PDF

Tepe, E.J., F.T. Farruggia and L. Bohs. 2011. A 10-gene phylogeny of Solanum section Herpystichum (Solanaceae) and a comparison of phylogenetic methods. American Journal of Botany 98: 1356-1365. PDF

Rodríguez-Castañeda, G., R.E. Forkner, E.J. Tepe, L.A. Dyer and G.L. Gentry. 2011. Weighing defensive and nutritive roles of ant mutualists across a tropical altitudinal gradient. Biotropica. 43: 343-350. PDF

Tepe, E.J. and L. Bohs. 2010. A molecular phylogeny of Solanum sect. Pteroidea (Solanaceae) and the utility of COSII markers in resolving relationships among closely related species. Taxon 59: 733-743. PDF

Pelser, P.B., E.J. Tepe, A.H. Kennedy, and L.E. Watson. 2010. The fate of Robinsonia (Asteraceae): sunk in Senecio, but still monophyletic? Phytotaxa 5: 31-46. PDF

Pelser, P.B., A.H. Kennedy, E.J. Tepe, J.B. Shidler, B. Nordenstam, J.W. Kadereit and L.E. Watson. 2010. Patterns and causes of incongruence between plastid and nuclear Senecioneae (Asteraceae) phylogenies. American Journal of Botany 97: 856-873. PDF

Tepe, E.J. and L. Bohs. 2009. Three new species of Solanum section Herpystichum (Solanaceae). Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 3: 511-519. PDF

Tepe, E.J., W.A. Kelley, G. Rodriguez-Castañeda, and L.A. Dyer. Invited contribution, 2009. Characterizing the cauline domatia of two newly discovered Ecuadorian ant-plants in Piper: an example of convergent evolution. Journal of Insect Science 9: 27 (9pp.). PDF

Jaramillo, M.A., R. Callejas, C. Davidson, J.F. Smith, A. Stevens, and E.J. Tepe. 2008. A phylogeny of the tropical genus Piper (Piperaceae) using ITS and the chloroplast intron psbJ-petA. Systematic Botany 33: 647-660. PDF

Stern, S.R., E.J. Tepe and L. Bohs. 2008. Checklist of Solanum of north-central Peru, a hot spot of biological diversity. Arnoldoa 15: 277-284. PDF

Smith, J.F., A.C. Stevens, E.J. Tepe, and C. Davidson. 2008. Placing the origin of two species-rich genera in the Cretaceous with later species divergence in the Tertiary: a phylogenetic, biogeographic, and molecular dating analysis of Piper and Peperomia (Piperaceae). Plant Systematics and Evolution 275: 9-30. PDF

Tepe, E.J., M.A. Vincent and L.E. Watson. 2007. The importance of petiole structure on inhabitability by ants in Piper sect. Macrostachys (Piperaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 153: 181-191. PDF

Tepe, E.J., M.A. Vincent and L.E. Watson. 2007. Stem diversity, cauline domatia, and the evolution of ant-plant associations in Piper sect. Macrostachys (Piperaceae). American Journal of Botany 94: 1-11. PDF

Tepe, E.J., M.A. Vincent and L.E. Watson. 2004. Phylogenetic patterns, evolutionary trends and the origin of ant-plant associations Piper section Macrostachys: Burger’s hypotheses revisited. In L.A. Dyer and A.P.-N. Palmer [eds.], Piper: a model genus for studies of phytochemistry, ecology, and evolution, 157-178. Kluwer Academic, Boston. PDF

Crawford, D.J., E. Ruiz, T.F. Stuessy, E.J. Tepe, P. Aqeveque, F. Gonzalez, R.J. Jensen, G.J. Anderson, G. Bernardello, C.M. Baeza, U. Swenson and M. Silva O. 2001.  Allozyme diversity in endemic flowering plant species of the Juan Fernandez Archipelago, Chile: ecological and historical factors with implications or conservation.  American Journal of Botany 88: 2195-2203. PDF

Crawford, D.J., E. Landolt, D.H. Les and E.J. Tepe.  1997.  Allozyme variation and the taxonomy of Wolffiella.  Aquatic Botany 58: 43-54. ABSTRACT