For a complete list of Dr. De La Torre’s Publications, please see her GoogleScholar

• Weiss M, Sniezko R, Puiu D, Crepeau MW, Stevens K, Salzberg SL, Langley CH, Neale DB, De La Torre AR. 2020. Genomic basis of white pine blister rust quantitative disease resistance and its relationship with qualitative resistance. The Plant Journal, doi:10.1111/tpj.14928.
• De La Torre AR, Piot A, Liu B, Wilhite B, Weiss M, Porth I. 2020. Functional and morphological evolution in gymnosperms: a portrait of implicated gene families. Evolutionary Applications 00:1-18.
• Sun YQ, Zhao W, Xu CQ, El-Kassaby YA, De La Torre AR, Mao JF. 2019. Genetic variation related to high elevation adaptation revealed by long-term common garden experiments in Pinus yunnanensis. Frontiers in Genetics 10:1405, doi:10.3389/fgene.2019.01405

• De La Torre AR, Wilhite B, Neale DB. 2019. Environmental genome-wide association reveals climate adaptation is shaped by subtle to moderate allele frequency shifts in loblolly pine. Genome Biology and Evolution 11(10):2976-2989.

• Lin YC, Wang J, Delhomme N, Schiffthaler B, Sundström G, Zuccolo A, Nystedt B, Hvidsten TR, De La Torre AR, Cossu R, Hoppner M, Lantz H, Scofield DG, Zamani N, Johansson A, Mannapperuma C, Robinson KM et al. 2018. Functional and evolutionary genomic inferences in Populus through genome and population sequencing of American and European aspen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 115(46):E10970-E10978.

• De La Torre AR, Puiu D, Crepeau MW, Stevens K, Salzberg SL, Langley CH, Neale DB. 2018. Genomic architecture of complex traits in Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda). New Phytologist 221:1789-1801.

• Vasquez-Lobo A, De la Torre AR,Vangestel C, Martinez-Garcia PJ,Wegzryn JL, Calic I, Burton D, Davis D, Kinloch B, Neale DB.  2017. Finding loci associated to partial resistance to white pine blister rust on sugar pine (Pinus lambertianaDougl.). Tree Genetics & Genomes 13(108).

• Li Z,De La Torre AR, Sterck L, Canovas FM, Avila C, Merino I, Cabezas JA, Cervera MT, Ingvarsson PK, Van de Peer Y. 2017. Single-copy genes as molecular markers for phylogenomic studies in seed plants. Genome Biology and Evolution 9(4): 1130-1147.

• De La Torre AR, Li Z, Van de Peer Y, Ingvarsson PK. 2017. Contrasting rates of molecular evolution and patterns of selection among gymnosperms and flowering plants. Molecular Biology and Evolution 34(6): 1363-1377.

• Neale DB, Martinez-Garcia PJ, De La Torre AR, Montanari S, Wei X. 2017. Novel insights into tree biology and genome evolution as revealed through genomics. Annual Review of Plant Biology 68: 13.1-13.27.

• De La Torre AR, Lin YC, Van de Peer Y, Ingvarsson PK. 2015. Genome-wide analysis reveals diverged patterns of codon bias, gene expression, and rates of sequence evolution in Picea gene families. Genome Biology and Evolution 7(4): 1002-1015.

• De La Torre AR, Ingvarsson PK, Aitken SN. 2015. Genetic architecture and genomic patterns of gene flow between hybridizing species of Picea. Heredity 00: 1-12.

• Hamilton JA, De La Torre AR, Aitken SN. 2015. Fine-scale environmental variation contributes to introgression in a three-species spruce hybrid zone. Tree Genetics and Genomes 11:817. 

• De La Torre AR, Birol I, Bousquet J, Ingvarsson PK, Jansson S, Jones SJM, Keeling CI, MacKay J, Nilsson O, Ritland K, Street N, Yanchuk A, Zerbe P, Bohlmann J. 2014. Insights into Conifer Giga-genomes. Plant Physiology 166: 1-9.

• De La Torre AR, Roberts D, Aitken SN. 2014. Genome-wide admixture and ecological niche modeling reveal the maintenance of species boundaries despite long history of interspecific gene flow. Molecular Ecology 23:2046-2059.

• De La Torre AR, Wang T, Jaquish B, Aitken SN. 2014. Adaptation and exogenous selection in the Picea glaucax P. engelmannii hybrid zone and its implications for forest management under cimate change. New Phytologist 201(2): 687-699.

• De La Torre A, López C, Iglesias E, Cornelius JP. 2008.Genetic (AFLP) diversity of nine Cedrela odoratapopulations in Madre de Dios, southern Peruvian Amazon. Forest Ecology and Management 255:334-339.

Book chapters 

• De La Torre AR. 2020. Comparative genomics of spruce and other gymnosperms. In: Porth I, De La Torre A. (eds) The Spruce Genome. Compendium of Plant Genomes, pages 97-105, Springer, Cham, Berlin, Germany.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21001-4_6

• Birol I, De La Torre AR. 2020. Sequencing and assembling the nuclear and organelle genomes of North American spruces. In: Porth I, De La Torre A. (eds) The Spruce Genome. Compendium of Plant Genomes, pages 1-8, Springer, Cham, Berlin, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21001-4_1

• Porth I, De La Torre AR, El-Kassaby YA. 2020. Prospects: The spruce genome, a model for understanding gymnosperm evolution and supporting tree improvement efforts. In: Porth I, De La Torre A. (eds) The Spruce Genome. Compendium of Plant Genomes, pages 215-218, Springer, Cham, Berlin, Germany.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21001-4_13

• La Torre AR. 2015. Genomic admixture and species delimitation in forest tree species. In: Evolutionary Biology: Biodiversification from Genotype to Phenotype (Pontarotti P. ed.), Springer International Publishing, Berlin, Germany. ISBN 978-3-319-19932-0. 460 pp. [link]