Paul studies evolutionary process in Penstemon section Penstemon subsection Proceri. This group has many polyploid species. Paul is interested in examining the evolutionary dynamics of polyploidy, especially from a genomics and modeling perspective.

See also: https://wolfelab.wordpress.com/about/people-in-the-wolfe-lab/wolfe-lab-paul-blischak/

Articles authored or co-authored by Paul Blischak:

Wolfe AD, Necamp T, Fassnacht S, Blischak P, Kubatko L (in review) Conservation genetics of Penstemon albomarginatus (Plantaginaceae), a rare Mojave Desert species of deep sand habitats. Conservation Genetics http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10592-016-0857-y

Blischak PD, Kubatko L, Wolfe AD (in press) Accounting for genotype uncertainty in the estimate of allele frequencies in autopolyploids. Molecular Ecology Resources 16:742-754.

Blischak PD, Wenzel AJ*, Wolfe AD (2014) Gene prediction and annotation in Penstemon (Plantaginaceae): A workflow for marker development from extremely low-coverage genome sequencing. Applications in Plant Sciences 2, 1400044 http://dx.doi.org/10.3732/apps.1400044