Dra. Amy Litt (n. 1970 ) es una taxónoma, y botánica estadounidense especialista en el género de planta carnívora Nepenthes. Es Directora de Genómica Vegetal, y curadora Cullman.
Posee un Ph.D., por la City University of New York, en el New York Botanical Garden, de 1999. Defendió la tesis: "Floral morphology and phylogeny of Vochysiaceae".
Algunas publicaciones Litt, A. 2010. Evolution of the ABC model of flower development: how new molecular mechanisms produce new floral forms. In prep for special issue of Int. J. Plant Sci. Hileman, L. C., S. Drea, G. de Martino, A. Litt, V.F. Irish. In press. Virus induced gene silencing is an effective tool to assay gene function in the basal eudicot Papaver somniferum (opium poppy). Plant J. Irish, V. F., A. Litt. 2005. Flower development and evolution: gene duplication, diversification, and redeployment. Current Opinions in Genes and Development 15 Liu, Y., Nakayama, N., Schiff, M., Litt, A., Irish, V.F. Dinesh-Kumar, S.P. 2004. Virus induced gene silencing of a deficiens ortholog in Nicotiana benthamiana. Plant Mol. Biol. 54: 701-711 Sytsma, K.J., A. Litt., M. Zjhra, J. C. Pires, M. Nepokroeff, E. Conti, J. Walker, P.Wilson. 2004. Clades, clocks, and continents: historical and biogeographical analysis of Myrtaceae, Vochysiaceae, and relatives in the southern hemisphere. International J. of Plant Sci. 165 (4 Suppl.) S85-S105 Litt, A. Vochysiaceae and Euphroniaceae. 2004. En: Flowering Plants of the Neotropics, N. Smith, S. A. Mori, A. Henderson, D. W. Stevenson, and S. Heald, eds. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton. Litt, A., V. F. Irish. 2003. Duplication and divergence in the APETAL1/FRUITFULL gene lineage: implications for the evolution of floral development programs. Genetics 165: 821-833 Litt, A., D. W. Stevenson. 2003. Floral morphology of Vochysiaceae I. Position of the single fertile stamen. Am. J. of Botany 90:1533-1547 Litt, A., D. W. Stevenson. 2003. Floral morphology of Vochysiaceae II. Structure of the gynoecium. Am. J. of Botany 90: 1548-1559 Litt., A., M. Cheek. 2002. Korupodendron songweangum, a new genus and species of Vochysiaceae form West-Central Africa. Brittonia 54: 13-17 Litt, A., M. W. Chase. 1999. The systematic position of Euphronia, with comments on the position of Balanops: an analysis based on rbcL sequence data. Systematic Botany 23: 401- 409 Conti, E., A. Litt, P.G. Wilson, S.A Graham, B.G. Briggs, L.A.S. Johnson, K.J. Sytsma. 1997. Interfamiliar relationships in Myrtales: molecular phylogeny and patterns of morphological evolution. Systematic Botany 22: 629-647 Conti, E., A. Litt, K. J. Sytsma. 1996. Circumscription of the Myrtales and their relationships to other Rosids: evidence from rbcL data. American J. of Botany 83: 221-233
Libros Amy Litt. 1999. Floral morphology and phylogeny of Vochysiaceae. Editor City Univ. of New York, 528 pp.
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Categoría:Taxónomos de Estados Unidos Categoría:Botánicas de Estados Unidos Categoría:Alumnado de la Universidad de la Ciudad de Nueva York