In Review. Cacho, NI, PJ McIntyre, DJ Kliebenstein & S.Y. Strauss. Macroevolution and ecological correlates of genome size in Streptanthus (s.l.)
In Review. Pace MR, B Hernández-Hernández, L Lohman, E Martínez & NI Cacho*. Phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic Astianthus (Bignoniaceae) based on molecular data, wood and bark anatomy. Taxon.
In Press. Cacho NI & D José-Zacatula. Geographic patters in pollen production in the plant ring-species Euphorbia tithymaloides L. in the Caribbean. Systematic Botany.
2019. Cacho, NI, MJ Monteverde-Suárez & PJ McIntyre. 2019. Convergent evolution in floral morphology in a plant ring species, the Caribbean Euphorbia tithymaloides. American Journal of Botany 106(7): 1–14. DOI:10.1002/ajb2.1318.
2019. Baeza CM, O Toro-Núñez, NI Cacho, M Cuba-Díaz, E Urtubey, E Ruiz-Ponce, C Araneda-Beltrán & T Stuessy. 2019. Alstromeriaceae, Asteraceae, Brassicaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Malvaceae. In: Marhold, K. (ed.), IAPT/IOPB chromosome data 30/1. Taxon 68(5).
2018. Weber, MJ, N.I. Cacho, MJ Phan, C Disbrow, S Ramírez & SY Strauss. The evolution of floral signals in relation to range overlap in a clade of California Jewelflowers (Streptanthus s.l.). Evolution 72 (4): 798-807. doi:10.1111/evo.13456
2016. Cacho, NI & DJ Kliebenstein. Nonlinear selection and a blend of convergent, divergent and parallel evolution shapes natural variation in glucosinolates. Advances in Botanical Research.
2016. Hanan-Alipi, A, H Vibrans, NI Cacho, JL Villaseñor, E Ortiz & V Gómez-G. (In Press). Using herbarium data to evaluate weediness– Melampodium (Asteraceae) from Nayarit, Mexico, a case study. AoB Plants. PDF
2015. Cacho, NI, DJ Kliebenstein & SY Strauss. Macroevolutionary patterns of glucosinolate defense and tests of defense–escalation and resource availability hypotheses. New Phytologist 208 (3):915-927. PDF
** Featured and Commentary: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.13624/full
2015. SY Strauss, NI Cacho, MW Schwartz, AC Schwartz & KC Burns. Apparency Revisited. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 157: 74-85. PDF
2014. Cacho, NI & SY Strauss. Occupation of bare habitats, an evolutionary precursor to soil specialization in plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(42): 15132-15137. PDF
** Featured in Cover, and commentary by Scott Armbruster here
2014. Drew, BT, NI Cacho, & KJ Sytsma. The transfer of monotypic narrow endemics Neoeplingia and Chaunostoma to Lepechinia with notes on their conservation. Taxon 63(4): 831-842. PDF
2014. Cacho, NI, AM Burrell, A Pepper & SY Strauss. Systematics and the evolution of serpentine tolerance in the California Jewelflowers (Streptanthus) and its allies. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 72: 71-81. PDF
2013. Strauss, SY & NI Cacho. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide: The role of enemies in edaphic adaptation in Californian Jewelflowers (Streptanthus). American Naturalist. 128(1): E1-E14. PDF
2013. Cacho, NI & SY Strauss. Single copy nuclear gene primers for Streptanthus and other Brassicaceae from genomic scans, published resources, and ESTs. Applications in Plant Sciences 1(7): 1200002. PDF
2013. Olson, MEO, J Rodel, C León, S Zamora, A Weeks, LO AlvCárdenas, NI Cacho & J Grant. Convergent vessel diameter–stem diameter scaling across five clades of new and old world eudicots from desert to rain forest. International Journal of Plant Sciences 174(7): 1062-1078. PDF
2012. Cacho, NI & DA Baum. The Caribbean slipper spurge Euphorbia tithymaloides, the first example of a ring species in plants. Proceedings Royal Society B 279: 3377-3383. PDF
** Featured in Nature: 'One ring species to rule them all' here
2011. Prenner, G, NI Cacho, DA Baum & PJ Rudall. Is LEAFY a useful marker gene for the flower–inflorescence boundary in the Euphorbia cyathium? Journal of Experimental Botany 62(1): 345–350. PDF
2010. Cacho, NI, DA Baum & PE Berry. Are spurred cyathia a key innovation? Molecular systematics and trait evolution in the Slipper-Spurges (Pedilanthus clade - Euphorbia, Euphorbiaceae). American Journal of Botany 97(3): 493–510. PDF
2005. Olson MEO, JA Lomelí & NI Cacho. Extinction threat in the Pedilanthus clade (Euphorbia, Euphorbiaceae), with special reference to the recently rediscovered E. conzattii (P. pulchellus). American Journal of Botany 92: 634-641. PDF
In Review. Pace MR, B Hernández-Hernández, L Lohman, E Martínez & NI Cacho*. Phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic Astianthus (Bignoniaceae) based on molecular data, wood and bark anatomy. Taxon.
In Press. Cacho NI & D José-Zacatula. Geographic patters in pollen production in the plant ring-species Euphorbia tithymaloides L. in the Caribbean. Systematic Botany.
2019. Cacho, NI, MJ Monteverde-Suárez & PJ McIntyre. 2019. Convergent evolution in floral morphology in a plant ring species, the Caribbean Euphorbia tithymaloides. American Journal of Botany 106(7): 1–14. DOI:10.1002/ajb2.1318.
2019. Baeza CM, O Toro-Núñez, NI Cacho, M Cuba-Díaz, E Urtubey, E Ruiz-Ponce, C Araneda-Beltrán & T Stuessy. 2019. Alstromeriaceae, Asteraceae, Brassicaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Malvaceae. In: Marhold, K. (ed.), IAPT/IOPB chromosome data 30/1. Taxon 68(5).
2018. Weber, MJ, N.I. Cacho, MJ Phan, C Disbrow, S Ramírez & SY Strauss. The evolution of floral signals in relation to range overlap in a clade of California Jewelflowers (Streptanthus s.l.). Evolution 72 (4): 798-807. doi:10.1111/evo.13456
2016. Cacho, NI & DJ Kliebenstein. Nonlinear selection and a blend of convergent, divergent and parallel evolution shapes natural variation in glucosinolates. Advances in Botanical Research.
2016. Hanan-Alipi, A, H Vibrans, NI Cacho, JL Villaseñor, E Ortiz & V Gómez-G. (In Press). Using herbarium data to evaluate weediness– Melampodium (Asteraceae) from Nayarit, Mexico, a case study. AoB Plants. PDF
2015. Cacho, NI, DJ Kliebenstein & SY Strauss. Macroevolutionary patterns of glucosinolate defense and tests of defense–escalation and resource availability hypotheses. New Phytologist 208 (3):915-927. PDF
** Featured and Commentary: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.13624/full
2015. SY Strauss, NI Cacho, MW Schwartz, AC Schwartz & KC Burns. Apparency Revisited. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 157: 74-85. PDF
2014. Cacho, NI & SY Strauss. Occupation of bare habitats, an evolutionary precursor to soil specialization in plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(42): 15132-15137. PDF
** Featured in Cover, and commentary by Scott Armbruster here
2014. Drew, BT, NI Cacho, & KJ Sytsma. The transfer of monotypic narrow endemics Neoeplingia and Chaunostoma to Lepechinia with notes on their conservation. Taxon 63(4): 831-842. PDF
2014. Cacho, NI, AM Burrell, A Pepper & SY Strauss. Systematics and the evolution of serpentine tolerance in the California Jewelflowers (Streptanthus) and its allies. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 72: 71-81. PDF
2013. Strauss, SY & NI Cacho. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide: The role of enemies in edaphic adaptation in Californian Jewelflowers (Streptanthus). American Naturalist. 128(1): E1-E14. PDF
2013. Cacho, NI & SY Strauss. Single copy nuclear gene primers for Streptanthus and other Brassicaceae from genomic scans, published resources, and ESTs. Applications in Plant Sciences 1(7): 1200002. PDF
2013. Olson, MEO, J Rodel, C León, S Zamora, A Weeks, LO AlvCárdenas, NI Cacho & J Grant. Convergent vessel diameter–stem diameter scaling across five clades of new and old world eudicots from desert to rain forest. International Journal of Plant Sciences 174(7): 1062-1078. PDF
2012. Cacho, NI & DA Baum. The Caribbean slipper spurge Euphorbia tithymaloides, the first example of a ring species in plants. Proceedings Royal Society B 279: 3377-3383. PDF
** Featured in Nature: 'One ring species to rule them all' here
2011. Prenner, G, NI Cacho, DA Baum & PJ Rudall. Is LEAFY a useful marker gene for the flower–inflorescence boundary in the Euphorbia cyathium? Journal of Experimental Botany 62(1): 345–350. PDF
2010. Cacho, NI, DA Baum & PE Berry. Are spurred cyathia a key innovation? Molecular systematics and trait evolution in the Slipper-Spurges (Pedilanthus clade - Euphorbia, Euphorbiaceae). American Journal of Botany 97(3): 493–510. PDF
2005. Olson MEO, JA Lomelí & NI Cacho. Extinction threat in the Pedilanthus clade (Euphorbia, Euphorbiaceae), with special reference to the recently rediscovered E. conzattii (P. pulchellus). American Journal of Botany 92: 634-641. PDF
BOOK CHAPTERS & OTHER COMMUNICATIONS
In press. Cacho NI, D. Piñero & A González-Voyer. Biodiversidad, epidemias y pandemias. Revista de la Academia Mexicana de Ciencias. In Spanish.
2020. Cacho NI & PJ McIntyre. Chapter 13: The role of enemies in bare and edaphically challenging environments. In: J. Nuñez-Farfán, P. L. Valverde (eds.), Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Herbivore Interaction. Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
2016. Berry, PE, JA Peirson, VW Steinmann, JJ Morawetz, R Riina, Y Yang, D Geltman, & NI Cacho. Euphorbia. Flora of North America Editorial Committe, eds. Flora of North America North of Mexico. Vol. 12. New York and Oxford.
2002. Olson MEO & NI Cacho. Our hidden biological treasures. Gaceta UNAM. In Spanish.
2002. Olson MEO & NI Cacho. Hallazgo botánico: localización de una especie endémica a México después de 86 años de no ser vista. El Faro 29: 7. In Spanish.
In press. Cacho NI, D. Piñero & A González-Voyer. Biodiversidad, epidemias y pandemias. Revista de la Academia Mexicana de Ciencias. In Spanish.
2020. Cacho NI & PJ McIntyre. Chapter 13: The role of enemies in bare and edaphically challenging environments. In: J. Nuñez-Farfán, P. L. Valverde (eds.), Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Herbivore Interaction. Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
2016. Berry, PE, JA Peirson, VW Steinmann, JJ Morawetz, R Riina, Y Yang, D Geltman, & NI Cacho. Euphorbia. Flora of North America Editorial Committe, eds. Flora of North America North of Mexico. Vol. 12. New York and Oxford.
2002. Olson MEO & NI Cacho. Our hidden biological treasures. Gaceta UNAM. In Spanish.
2002. Olson MEO & NI Cacho. Hallazgo botánico: localización de una especie endémica a México después de 86 años de no ser vista. El Faro 29: 7. In Spanish.