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Research
Latest papers
Trait-Based Selection of Seeds Ingested and Dispersed by North American Waterfowl.
Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
Inflorescences of Cuscuta (Convolvulaceae): Diversity, evolution and relationships with breeding systems and fruit dehiscence modes.
PloS one · 2023 · senior author
The Evolution of Cytogenetic Traits in Cuscuta (Convolvulaceae), the Genus With the Most Diverse Chromosomes in Angiosperms.
Frontiers in plant science · 2022
Latest funding
- $140,000
Systematics and evolution of parasitic plants
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
- $52,470
Automated critical point dry instrumentation for scanning electron microscopy applications
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
- $20,213
Mycorrhiza development and vegetative propagation of Podophyllum peltatum (may-apple, Berberidaceae)
NSERC · 2012 · Principal investigator
15 publications.
Trait-Based Selection of Seeds Ingested and Dispersed by North American Waterfowl.
Almeida BA, Costea M, Silva GG, Maltchik L, De La Cruz SEW, Takekawa JY, Green AJ
Inflorescences of Cuscuta (Convolvulaceae): Diversity, evolution and relationships with breeding systems and fruit dehiscence modes.
Glofcheskie M, Long T, Ho A, Costea M
The Evolution of Cytogenetic Traits in Cuscuta (Convolvulaceae), the Genus With the Most Diverse Chromosomes in Angiosperms.
Ibiapino A, García MA, Amorim B, Baez M, Costea M, Stefanović S, Pedrosa-Harand A
Karyotype asymmetry in Cuscuta L. subgenus Pachystigma reflects its repeat DNA composition.
Ibiapino A, Báez M, García MA, Costea M, Stefanović S, Pedrosa-Harand A
Notes on the systematics of Cuscutasect.Subulatae (subg. Grammica) with the description of Cuscutamantiqueirana, a new species from Brazil.
Costea M, da Silva SS, Simão-Bianchini R, Simões ARG, Stefanović S
Intense proliferation of rDNA sites and heterochromatic bands in two distantly related Cuscuta species (Convolvulaceae) with very large genomes and symmetric karyotypes.
Ibiapino A, García MÁ, Costea M, Stefanović S, Guerra M
Cuscuta seeds: Diversity and evolution, value for systematics/identification and exploration of allometric relationships.
Olszewski M, Dilliott M, García-Ruiz I, Bendarvandi B, Costea M
The effect of gut passage by waterbirds on the seed coat and pericarp of diaspores lacking "external flesh": Evidence for widespread adaptation to endozoochory in angiosperms.
Costea M, El Miari H, Laczkó L, Fekete R, Molnár AV, Lovas-Kiss Á, Green AJ
Allopolyploid origin and genome differentiation of the parasitic species Cuscuta veatchii (Convolvulaceae) revealed by genomic in situ hybridization.
Ibiapino A, García MA, Ferraz ME, Costea M, Stefanović S, Guerra M
Cladogenesis and reticulation in Cuscuta sect. Denticulatae (Convolvulaceae).
García MA, Stefanović S, Weiner C, Olszewski M, Costea M
Systematics and evolution of parasitic plants
Principal investigators: Costea, Mihai
Keywords: Floristics; Host range/specificity; Karyotype evolution; Morphology/Microscopy; Parasitic plants; Phylogeny/Phylogenetics; Reticulate evolution; Taxonomy/systematics
Automated critical point dry instrumentation for scanning electron microscopy applications
Principal investigators: Costea, Mihai
Mycorrhiza development and vegetative propagation of Podophyllum peltatum (may-apple, Berberidaceae)
Principal investigators: Costea, Mihai
""Systematics, evolution, biodiversity and biogeography of parasitic plants""
Principal investigators: Costea, Mihai
A DNA sequencer with AFLP and microsatellite genotyping capabilities for integrative biology applications
Principal investigators: Smith, Matthew
Evolution, biodiversity and biogeography of parasitic plants using the genus cuscuta (CONVOLVULaceae) as a model of study
Principal investigators: Costea, Mihai
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Mihai Costea and Tristan Long: 1 shared paper
- Mihai Costea and Sasa Stefanovic: 1 shared paper
- Biology
- Biology, UTM
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