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Livia Wanntorp
Associate Professor
Department of Phanerogamic Botany
Swedish Museum of Natural History,
Box 50007,
SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
*Associate
editor of ÒPlant Systematics and EvolutionÓ http://www.springer.com/springerwiennewyork/life+sciences/journal/606
*Scandinavian
Representative of the ÒInternational Asclepiad SocietyÓ http://www.asclepiad-international.org/
*Secretary
of the Swedish Systematics Association (Svenska Systematikfšreningen)
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Academic history
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2009- 2008 2008 |
Researcher, Swedish Museum of
Natural History, Department of Phanerogamic Botany. Curator, Swedish Museum of
Natural History, Department of Paleobotany. Researcher, Lund
University, GeoBiosphere Science Centre. |
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2007 -2008 |
Researcher, Swedish Museum of
Natural History, Department of Paleobotany. |
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2005 - 2007 |
Senior lecturer in University
Pedagogy, Centre for Teaching and Learning (UPC), Stockholm University http://www.upc.su.se |
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2004 –
2005 |
Postdoctoral researcher, Ludwig
Maximilian University, Munich http://www.botanik.biologie.uni-muenchen.de/botsyst/ |
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2003 –
2004 |
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Sweden. |
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2002, October |
Doctor of Philosophy in
Plant Systematics, Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Sweden. |
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Main projects
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Diversification
in the Indomalesian Rain Forest - ancient stability or recent dynamics?
In this project, I, and my
collaborators are using species-rich groups of flowering plants such members of
the tribe Marsdenieae in the milkweed family (Apocynaceae), Meliaceae in the
mahogany family, and Maesa (Maesaceae) as model organisms to study
diversification patterns and processes in the Indomalesian archipelago.
The horticulturally
important genus Hoya, wax plants, in the Marsdenieae, includes 200-300 species.
Hoyas are tropical lianas, often epiphytic with a typical Indomalesian- Pacific
distribution. Despite of its large popularity as ornamentals, and although
appreciated for their perfumed and showy flowers, the systematics of Hoya has until now been poorly studied. In
this study I reconstruct the phylogenetic tree of Hoya and its relatives of
the Marsdenieae using molecular and morphological characters as well as
chemical components of the flower scents. Main aim of the project is to use the
phylogeny of Hoya to disentangle Angiosperm diversification in the
Indomalesian-Pacific area during the Cenozoic. A resolved and comprehensive
phylogenetic tree will allow for taxonomic revisions of the genus and the
proposal of a new classification reflecting evolution and for the clarification
of the evolution of particularly interesting flower structures as coronas and
pollinaria.
Different parts of the
project are in collaboration with Dr. A. Muellner (Senckenberg Laboratory,
Frankfurt), Dr. P. Forster (Queensland herbarium), Dr. J. Klackenberg and Dr.
A. Anderberg (Swedish Museum of Natural History), Dr. A.-K. Borg Karlsson (KTH,
Stockholm), Dr. S. Liede and Dr. U. Meve (Bayreuth University), Dr. T.
Livshultz (Omaru University, Nebraska), Dr. R. Hall (Holloway College, London),
M. Rodda (University of Torino) and N. Simonsson.
Other
projects
Phylogeny and
biogeography of Samolus (Theophrastaceae), Ericales
Samolus includes 12-15 species with a mainly Southern distribution in South Africa, South America, Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, but also including several species from North America. In this project collaborators and I am investigating the phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of Samolus and its position in the Ericales by using a combination of molecular and morphological characters. Collaborators of the project are Dr. A. Anderberg and his team of the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm.
Dating lineages in
the Gunneraceae
The genus Gunnera, single land plant having an intracellular symbiosis
with the cyanobacteria of Nostoc,
includes 30-40 species distributed in all continents of the Southern
Hemisphere. Based on molecular phylogenetics, Gunnera occupies a crucial
position in the angiosperms, as sister group to the other core "eudicotsÓ.
As a PhD student I studied the molecular phylogenetics and the biogeography of Gunnera, a project that I later
extended so as to include palynological, paleobotanical and flower
morphological studies on the genus. Today, I participate in a project together
with Dr. A. Antonelli and Dr C. Hughes (Institute of Systematic Botany, Zurich)
aiming to the dating of lineages of Gunnera using Bayesian and likelihood
analyses.
Ecological and evolutionary
consequences of hybridization: cloud-forest Gunnera species in Costa
Rica
Costa Rica hosts two
species of Gunnera, G. insignis, occurring from Nicaragua to
Panama and G. talamancana, known only from the Talamanca mountain chain in southern
Costa Rica. These species are among the few in Gunnera to form natural
hybrids. Together with Dr. L. Kirkendall and his team (Bergen University,
Evolutionary Ecology research group (EV¯)), I am investigating ecological and
evolutionary consequences of hybridization in the gunneras of Costa Rica.
Past and present
diversity of the Proteaceae
The family
Proteaceae with over 1700 species is yet another example of Antarctic organisms
and thanks to the great number of fossils we know that Proteaceae had a wider
distribution and a higher morphological diversity in the past. In this project
I am investigating fossil pollen from the Southern Island of New Zealand as
well as from Campbell Island together with Dr. V. Vajda (GeoBiosphere Science
Center, Lund University) and D. J. I Raine (Institute of Geological and Nuclear
Sciences). Another part of the project on the paleobotanical diversity of
Proteaceae in South Africa is in collaboration with Dr. Cantrill (Melbourne
Bot. Garden). Aims of this project are to explore Proteaceae diversification
and evolution at the boundary between the Cretaceous and the Tertiary and link
it to the present distribution of the family.
Publications
2010 and in press
* Wanntorp, L. and Anderberg, A. A. Evolution and
diversification of brook weeds (Samolus, Samolaceae, Ericales). In press in
International Journal of Plant Sciences.
* Wanntorp, L., Puglisi, C., Penneys, D. and Ronse De
Craene. In press. Multiplications of floral organs in flowers-a case study in
Conostegia (Melastomataceae, Myrtales). In: "Flowers of the Tree of
Life". Wanntorp, L. and Ronse De Craene (eds).
* Cantrill, D. J.,Wanntorp, L. and Drinnan, A. N. Mesofossil flora from
the Late Cretaceous of New Zealand. In press in Cretaceous Research.
* Wanntorp, L. 2010 Gunneraceae. In: Flora Nordica 6: 157,
Jonsell, B. (ed.). Stockholm.
* Wanntorp, L. Gunneraceae. The Jepson's manual (Flora of California)
edited by Hickman, J.C. In press.
2009
* Wanntorp, L. Phylogenetic systematics of Hoya (Apocynaceae). 2009. Blumea 54: 228–232.
* Ronse
De Craene and
Wanntorp, L. 2009. Floral development and anatomy of
Salvadoraceae. Annals of Botany. 104: 913–923,
2009
* Wanntorp, L. 2009. Systematik
der Gattung Hoya - Herausforderungen und Lohn. Avonia
27(3): 104-112.
* Wanntorp, L. and Ronse
De Craene, L.P. 2009. Perianth evolution in the Sandalwood order Santalales. American Journal of Botany 96(7): 1361-1371.
* Wanntorp, L. and
Kunze, H. 2009. Identifying synapomorphies in the flowers of Hoya and Dischidia
– towards phylogenetic understanding. International Journal of Plant
Sciences 170(3): 331–342. 2009.
2008
* Kunze, H. and Wanntorp, L. 2008. The gynostegium of Hoya
spartioides
(Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae): A striking case of incongruence between
molecular and phenotypic evolution. Organisms Diversity and Evolution 8(5): 346-357.
* Kunze, H. and Wanntorp, L.
2008. Corona and anther skirt in Hoya (Apocynaceae, Marsdenieae).
Plant Systematics and Evolution: 271: 9-17.
* Ronse De Craene, L.P. and Wanntorp
L. 2008. Morphology and anatomy of the flower of Meliosma
(Sabiaceae): implications for pollination biology. Plant Systematics and
Evolution 271: 79-91.
* Dehghani, R., Wanntorp, L., Pagani, P.,
KŠllersjš, M., Werdelin, L. and Veron, G. 2008. Phylogeography of the
white-tailed mongoose (Herpestidae, Carnivora, Mammalia) based on partial
sequences of the mtDNA control region. Journal of Zoology 1-9.
2007
* Wanntorp, L. and Ronse
De Craene, L.P. 2007. Flower development of Meliosma (Sabiaceae) -
evidence for multiple origins of pentamery in the eudicots. American
Journal of Botany 94(11): 1828-1836.
* Wanntorp, L. 2007. Systematics of Hoya -
challenges and rewards. Asklepios 99: 9-16.
* Wanntorp, L. 2007. Hoya
eller inte Hoya - det Šr frŒgan. Hoyatelegrafen 3: 18-23.
* Wanntorp, L. 2007.
Porslinsblommornas evolution - gamla och nya metoder lšser gŒtan. Svensk
Botanisk Tidskrift 10(5): 281-286.
* Sanmartin Bastida, I., Wanntorp,
L. and Winkworth, R. 2007. West Wind Drift Revisited: Testing for
directional dispersal in the Southern Hemisphere using Event-based
tree-fitting. Journal of Biogeography 34: 398-416.
* Wanntorp, L. 2007.
Pollinaria of Hoya (Marsdenieae, Apocynaceae): shedding light on
molecular phylogenetics. Taxon 56(2): 465-478.
* Wanntorp, L. and
Forster, P. 2007. Phylogenetic relationships between Hoya and the
monotypic genera Madangia, Absolmsia, Micholitzia (Marsdenieae,
Apocynaceae): insights from flower morphology. Annals of the Missouri
Botanical Garden 94(1): 36-55.
2006
* Wanntorp, L. and
Klackenberg, J. 2006. Gunnera morae (Gunneraceae), a new species from
Colombia". Caldasia 28(2): 221-225.
* Wilkinson, H. and Wanntorp, L.
Gunneraceae. 2006. In: The Families and Genera of flowering plants. Kubitzki,
K. (ed.). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
* Ronse De Craene, L. P. and Wanntorp,
L. 2006. Evolution of floral characters in the genus Gunnera.
Systematic Botany 31(4): 671-688.
* Wanntorp, L., Kocyan,
A., van Donkelaar, R. and Renner. S.S. 2006. Towards a Monophyletic Hoya
(Marsdenieae, Apocynaceae): Inferences from the Chloroplast trnL
Region and the rbcL-atpB Spacer. Systematic Botany 31(3):
586-596.
* Wanntorp, L. Molecular
Systematics and Evolution of the Genus Gunnera. 2006. In: Plant
Genome. Biodiversity and Evolution 1C: 419-436, edited by Sharma, A. K.
& Sharma, A.
* Wanntorp, L., Kocyan,
A. and Renner. S.S. 2006. Wax plants disentangled: A phylogeny of Hoya
(Marsdenieae, Apocynaceae) inferred from nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequences.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39: 722-733.
2005
* Wanntorp, L. and Ronse
De Craene, L.P. 2005. The Gunnera flower - key to eudicot
diversification or response to pollination mode?. International Journal of
Plant Sciences 166 (6): 945-953.
2004
* Wanntorp, L.,
Dettmann, M.E. and Jarzen, D.M. 2004. Tracking the Mesozoic distribution of Gunnera:
comparison with the fossil species Tricolpites reticulatus Cookson. Review
of Palaeobotany and Palynology 132/3-4: 163-174.
* Rutishauser, R., Wanntorp, L.
and Pfeiffer, E. 2004. Gunnera herteri - developmental morphology of a
dwarf from Uruguay and S Brazil (Gunneraceae). Plant Systematics and
Evolution 248(1-4): 219-241.
* Wanntorp, L. 2004. Gunnera -
ett antarktiskt vŠxtslŠkte. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 98(1): 54-61.
* Wanntorp, L.,
Praglowski, J. and Grafstršm, E. 2004. New insight into the pollen morphology
of Gunnera (Gunneraceae). Grana 43: 15-21.
2003
* Wanntorp, L. and
Wanntorp H-E. 2003. The biogeography of Gunnera L.: vicariance and
dispersal. Journal of Biogeography 30: 979-987.
* Wanntorp, L. 2003. Origin and
identity of the cultivated Gunnera manicata: A historical review.
The Plantsman 2:
221-225.
* Wanntorp, L., Wanntorp
H-E. and Rutishauser, R. 2003. On the homology of the scales in Gunnera
(Gunneraceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 142
(3): 303-308.
2002
* Wanntorp, L., 2002.
Ph. D. Thesis. Phylogeny and Biogeography of Gunnera. Stockholm
University, Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-7265-514-3, pp. 1-26.
* Wanntorp, L. 2002. Gunnera
and its Antarctic distribution. Abstract in: Cladistics, Oral
presentation at the Willi Hennig Society's meeting, Helsinki, Finland,
12-15/8 2002.
* Wanntorp, L.,
Wanntorp, H-E. and KŠllersjš, M. 2002. Phylogenetic Relationships of Gunnera
based on Nuclear Ribosomal DNA ITS Region, rbcL and rps16
intron Sequences. Systematic Botany 27(3): 512-521.
* Wanntorp, L.,
Wanntorp, H-E. and KŠllersjš, M. 2002. The identity of Gunnera manicata
Linden ex AndrŽ - Resolving a Brazilian-Colombian enigma. Taxon 51: 493-497.
2001
* Wanntorp, L. 2001.
Lic. Thesis. "Molecular phylogeny of Gunnera". Stockholm University,
Stockholm, Sweden.
* Wanntorp, L.,
Wanntorp, H-E., Oxelman, B. and KŠllersjš, M. 2001. Phylogeny of Gunnera.
Plant Systematics and Evolution 226: 85-107.
2000
* Denk, T., Wanntorp, L.
and Manum, S.B., 2000. Catalogue of plant fossils from Spitzbergen,
Paleobotanical Department, Swedish Museum of Natural History.
Contributions to conferences
2009
* Wanntorp, L., Gotthardt, K., Muellner, A. N.
Tracking the diversification of the Indomalesian rain forest using the genus Hoya (Apocynaceae). SAGE 2009. 14-17
September 2009.
2008
* Wanntorp, L. and
Ronse De Craene, L. P. Perianth differentiation in the Santalales - what
morphology can tell us about molecular phylogenetics. Systematics 2008.
Gšttingen 7-11 April 2008.
2007
* Wanntorp, L. and Ronse De Craene,
L. P. Flower development of Meliosma (Sabiaceae) - evidence for multiple
origins of pentamery in the eudicots. Oral presentation at ÒSystematics: The
Sixth Biennial Conference of the Systematics AssociationÓ, Edinburgh 28-31 August
2007.
* Wanntorp, L. Phylogenetic
systematics of Hoya. Oral presentation at ÒFlora Malesiana MeetingÓ, Leiden
17-22 June 2007.
* Wanntorp,
L. and Cantrill, D. Reconstructing the Late Cretaceous flora of New Zealand. Poster
presentation at ÒThe Paleontological Association meetingÓ, Uppsala 16-19
December 2007.
2006
* Wanntorp, L. and Ronse De Craene, L.
P. Floral evolution in Gunneraceae. Poster presentation at ÒThe XV Congress of
the Federation of European Societes of Plant BiologyÓ, Lyon 17-21 July 2006.
* Wanntorp, L. Utmost sophistication
and delicate fragrance – for whom? A review on the flowers of Hoya (Apocynaceae), an
ecologically unexplored genus. Oral presentation at SCAPE meeting, GŒlš, 20-22
October 2006.
2005
* Ronse De Craene, L. P. and Wanntorp,
L.
Bridging the basal eudicot and core eudicot boundary. How can we reconcile
phylogeny with floral evolution? Oral presentation at ÒThe 17th International
Botanical Congress (IBC)Ó, Vienna, 18-23 July 2005.
* Wanntorp, L. and Rutishauser, R. Did
giants evolve from dwarfs? Developmental morphology of Gunnera herteri. Invited speaker at
ÒThe
17th International Botanical Congress (IBC)Ó, Vienna 18-23 July 2005.
* Wanntorp, L. First phylogeny of Hoya and close relatives:
how do we go from here? Oral presentation at ÒSystematics Fifth Biennial
Conference of the Systematics AssociationÓ Cardiff 22-26 August 2005.
2004
* Wanntorp, L. Systematics of Gunnera (Gunneraceae) and its
bearing on Gondwana. Oral presentation at ÒIV Southern Connections ConferenceÓ,
University of Cape Town 19-23 January 2004.
* Wanntorp, L., Jarzen, D. M,
and Dettmann, M. E. The angiosperm genus Gunnera in the Mesozoic:
comparison between Tricolpites reticulatus and pollen of extant Gunnera. Oral presentation at ÒXI International Palynological CongressÓ, Granada 4-9 July
2004.
* Fesq-Martin, M. Friedmann, A., Wanntorp,
L., Peters, M. and Bayer, E., 2004. Palaeoecological aspects of the Gunnera-Nostoc-Symbiosis.
Poster presentation 14.
ÒJahrestreffen des Arbeitskreises Vegetationsgeschichte der
Reinhold-Tyxen-GesellschaftÓ, Berlin 22-25. October 2004.
2003
* Wanntorp, L. Scales in the
angiosperm genus Gunnera- a phylogenetic approach. Oral presentation at ÒSystematics:
fourth Biennial Conference of the Systematic AssociationÓ, Trinity College,
Dublin 18-22 August 2003.
2002
* Wanntorp, L. Phylogeny of Gunnera. Oral presentation at
ÒASPT symposiumÓ, Albuquerque 12-16 August
2002.
* Wanntorp, L. Gunnera and its Antarctic
biogeography. Oral presentation at ÒThe Willi Hennig Society 's annual
meetingÓ, Helsinki 12-15 August 2002.
1996
* Wanntorp, L. Gunnera and Antarctic
biogeography, 1996. Oral presentation at ÒThe 3rd
Meeting of the Nordic Phylogenetic Systematics NetworkÓ, Bergen 14-18 August 1996.