Publications:
Savolainen, V., M.-C. Anstett, C. Lexer, I.
Hutton, J. J. Clarkson, M. V. Norup, M. P.
Powell, D. Springate, N. Salamin & W. J. Baker. 2006.
Evolutionary biology: Sympatric plant speciation in
islands? (Reply to: T. F. Stuessy Nature
443, doi10.1039/nature05216).
Nature 443: E12-E13.
Norup, M. V., J. Dransfield, M. W. Chase, A. S.
Barfod, E. S. Fernando & W. J. Baker. 2006.
Homoplasious character combinations and generic
delimitation: a case study from the Indo-Pacific arecoid
palms (Arecaceae).
American Journal of Botany, 93
(7):
1065-1080.
Savolainen, V., M.-C. Anstett, C. Lexer, I.
Hutton, J. J. Clarkson, M. V. Norup, M. P.
Powell, D. Springate, N. Salamin & W. J. Baker. 2006.
Sympatric speciation on Lord Howe Island.
Nature 441: 210-213.
Baker, W. J., S. Zona, C. D. Heatubun, R. A. Maturbongs,
& M. V. Norup. 2006.
Dransfieldia (Arecaceae) - A New Palm Genus from
Western New Guinea. Systematic
Botany 31 (1): 60-68.
Norup, M. V. 2005.
Alsmithia subsumed in Heterospathe
(Arecaceae, Arecoideae). Novon 15
(3): 455-457.
Norup, M. V. 2004. Lauraceae. In Cheek,
M., B. J. Pollard, I. Darbyshire, J.-M. Onana, & C.
Wild [eds.], The plants of Kupe, Mwanenguba and the Bakossi
Mountains, Cameroon. A conservation checklist. Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew,
UK.
In
preparation:
Norup, M. V. & A. S. Barfod. Taxonomic
history of the palm genera Heterospathe and
Rhopaloblaste. In prep. for Palms (the
Journal of the International Palm Society)
Major assignments written
(unpublished):
Bachelor thesis in General Botany: Heterostyly –
Description and systematic distribution of the phenomenon,
and evolutionary arguments for its development in
zygomorphic plants.
Molecular Population Genetics and Evolution project:
Lindera – A molecular genetic case-study of
paraphyly in the Lauraceae.
Biological Project: Molecular
evidence for the taxonomic status of the palm genera
Heterospathe and Rhopaloblaste (subfamily
Arecoideae; subtribe Iguanurinae).
MSc Thesis: Testing generic delimitation of the two
Indo-Pacific arecoid palm genera Heterospathe and
Rhopaloblaste: inferences from low-copy nuclear
DNA and morphology.