Felipe Zapata
Associate Professor
Co-Director Center for Tropical Research
fzapata@ucla.edu
310-206-4583
210M Botany
lab website
Recent Courses
EE BIOL 200a Organismal Biology
EE BIOL 103 Plant Diversity and Evolution
Research Areas
Evolutionary Biology, Plant Biology, Plant Systematics, Tropical Biology
Research Interests
My research groups asks questions about the evolutionary processes that generate biodiversity at multiple phylogenetic, spatial, and temporal scales. To learn more about our research, please visit Zapata Lab.
Selected Publications
Anghel I, Jacobs SJ, Escalona M, Mohan M, Fairbairn C, Beraut E, Nguyen O, Toffelmier E, Shaffer HB, Zapata F. Reference genome of the color polymorphic desert annual plant Linanthus parryae. J. Heredity 113:712-721
Henkhaus N, Busch W, Chen A, Colón-Carmona A, [...], Zapata F, Zemenick A, Stern DB. Removing Systemic Barriers to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Report of the 2019 Plant Science Research Network workshop "Inclusivity in the Plant Sciences". Plant Direct e432
Grundler MC, Rabosky DL, Zapata F. Fast likelihood calculations for automatic identification of among-lineage macroevolutionary rate heterogeneity in continuous and discrete traits Systematic Biology 71:1307-1318
Landis MJ, Quintero I, Muñoz MM, Zapata F, Donoghue MJ. Phylogenetic inference of where species spread or split across barriers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 119 (13):e2116948119
Munro C, Zapata F, Siebert S, Howison M, Haddock SHD, Dunn CW., "Evolution of gene expression across species and specialized zooids in Siphonophora", Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39(2):msac027 (2022) url: link.
Landis MJ, Quintero I, Munoz MM, Zapata F, Donoghue MJ., "Phylogenetic inference of where species spread or split across barriers", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 119(13):e211694811 (2022) url: link
Contributions: study design, research execution, results interpretation, and writing.
Grundler MC, Rabosky DL, Zapata F, "Fast likelihood calculations for automatic identification of among- lineage macroevolutionary rate heterogeneity in continuous and discrete traits", Systematic Biology, (2022) url: link.
Henkhaus NA, Busch W, Chen A, Colon-Carmona A, Cothran M, Diaz N, Dundore-Arias JP, Gonzales M, Hadziabdic D, Hayes RA, MacIntosh GC, Na A, Nyamasoka-Magonziwa B, Pater D, Peritore-Galve FC, Phelps-Durr T, Rouhier K, Sickler DB, Starnes JH, Tyler QR, Valdez-Ward E, Vega-Sanchez ME, Walcott RR, Ward JK, Wyatt SE, Zapata F, Zemenick AT, Stern DB., "Removing systemic barriers to equity, diversity, and inclusion: Report of the 2019 Plant Science Research Network workshop "Inclusivity in the Plant Sciences"", Plant Direct, 6(8):e432 (2022) url: link.