Forschungsinteressen

• Systematics, macroevolution, paleobotany, morphology
• Integration of fossil and extant data to infer macroevolutionary processes
• Early evolution of angiosperms
• Morphological diversity of angiosperm flowers

Projects

• Scientific project collaborator FWF-Project P I 6402-B "The Late Cretaceous Flora of South Bohemia" (Jürg Schönenberger)

 Curriculum Vitae

Current position

• 2024– Scientific project collaborator (post doc) FWF-Project I 6402-B

Education and scientific career

• 2019–2024 PhD, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
• 2015–2018 MSc, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
• 2013–2014 BSc Thesis. Instituto de Ecología, Estación Regional del Noroeste (ERNO), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Hermosillo, México
• 2009–2013 BSc in Biology. Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, México

 Publications

López-Martínez, A.M., Magallón, S., von Balthazar, M., Schönenberger, J., Sauquet, H., Chartier, M. (2024). Angiosperm flowers reached their highest morphological diversity early in their evolutionary history. New Phytol. 241, 1348–1360. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19389

López-Martinez, A.M., Schönenberger, J., von Balthazar, M., Gonzalez-Martinez, C.A., Ramírez-Barahona, S., Sauquet, H., Magallón, S. (2023). Integrating fossil flowers into the angiosperm phylogeny using molecular and morphological evidence. Syst Biol. 72, 837–855. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syad017

Schönenberger, J., von Balthazar, M., López-Martínez, A., Albert, B., Prieu, C., Magallón, S., Sauquet, H. (2020). Phylogenetic analysis of fossil flowers using an angiosperm-wide data set: proof-of-concept and challenges ahead. Am. J. Bot. 107, 1433–1448. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1538