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• Testo, W., E. Sessa, and D. Barrington. The rise of the Andes promoted rapid diversification in Neotropical Phlegmariurus (Lycopodiaceae). New Phytologist. Accepted for publication. 
  

• Patel, N.R., C.X. Li, L. B. Zhang, and D. Barrington. 2018. Biodiversity and apomixis: insights from the East-Asian holly ferns in Polystichum section Xiphopolystichum. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 127: 345–355.
  

• Testo, W., A. Field, and D. Barrington. 2018. Overcoming among-lineage rate heterogeneity to infer the divergence times and biogeography of the clubmoss family Lycopodiaceae. Journal of Biogeography 2018: 1–13.
  

• Testo, W., B. Øllgaard, A. Field, T. Almeida, M. Kessler, and D. Barrington. 2018. Phylogenetic systematics, morphological evolution, and natural groups in neotropical Phlegmariurus (Lycopodiaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 125: 1–13.

• Jha, S., E. Larson, J. Humble*, D. Domozych, D. Barrington, and M. Tierney. 2018. Vacuolar Protein Sorting26C encodes an evolutionarily conserved, large retromer subunit in eukaryotes that is important for root hair growth in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Journal 94: 595–611.

• Daru, B, D. Park, R. Primack, C. Willis, D. Barrington, T. Whitfeld, T. Seidler, P.  Sweeney, D. Foster, A. Ellison, and C. Davis. 2017. Widespread sampling biases in herbaria revealed from large-scale digitization. New Phytologist 217: 939–955.

• Lyons, B, M.A. McHenry, and D.S. Barrington. 2017. Insights into evolution in Andean Polystichum (Dryopteridaceae) from expanded understanding of the cytosolic phosphoglucose isomerase gene. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 112: 36–46.   Image of the cross-kingdom alignment for this paper. 

• Jorgensen, S.A. and D.S. Barrington. 2017. Two Beringian origins for the allotetraploid fern Polystichum braunii (Dryopteridaceae). Systematic Botany 42: 6–16.

• C. Freitas, A. W. Meerow, J.-C. Pintaud; A. Henderson,  L. Noblick; F.R.C. Costa, C. E. Barbosa, and D.S. Barrington. 2016. Phylogenetic analysis of Attalea (Arecaceae): insights on the historical biogeography of a recently diversified Neotropical plant group. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 182: 287–302.

• Morero, R., D. S. Barrington, M. A. McHenry, J. P. S. Condack, and G. E. Barboza. 2016. Typifications and synonymy in Polystichum (Dryopteridaceae) from Chile and Argentina. Phytokeys 65: 91–105.

• Testo, W.L., M.S. Grasso, and D.S. Barrington. 2014. Beyond antheridiogens: the role of allelopathy in competition between gametophytes of Polypodium appalachianum and Polypodium virginianum. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Club. 141: 302–312.

  Testo, W.L., J.E. Watkins, Jr., and D.S. Barrington. 2014. Dynamics of asymmetrical hybridization in North American wood ferns: reconciling patterns of inheritance with gametophyte reproductive biology. New Phytologist.  206: 785–795. doi: 10.1111/nph.13213.

• McHenry, M.A. and D.S. Barrington. 2014. Phylogeny and biogeography of exindusiate Andean Polystichum (Dryopteridaceae). American Journal of Botany 101: 365–­375.
• Barrington, D.S. and S.A. Schmitz. 2013. Quaternary Divergence and Holocene secondary contact via the Northwest Passage in the circumpolar Lathyrus japonicus (Leguminosae). Rhodora 115: 133–157.
  
• Condack, J.P.S., M.A. McHenry, R.E. Morero, L.S. Sylvestre and D.S. Barrington. 2013. Polystichum montevidense demystified: molecular and morphological data reveal a cohesive, widespread South American species. American Fern Journal 103: 118–130.

• McHenry, M.A., M.A. Sundue, and D.S. Barrington. 2013.^. The fern genus Adenoderris (family insertis sedis) is artificial. Taxon. 62: 1153–1160.

• McKeown, M., M. Sundue, and D.S. Barrington. 2012. Phylogenetic analyses place the Australian monotypic Revwattsia in Dryopteris (Dryopteridaceae). PhytoKeys 14: 43–56.
• Barrington, D.S. 2011. The fern genus Polystichum (Dryopteridaceae) in Costa Rica, Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 98: 431-446.
• Koenemann, D.M., J.A. Maisonpierre, and D.S. Barrington. 2011. Broad-scale integrity and local divergence in the fiddlehead fern Matteuccia struthiopteris (L) Todaro (Onocleaceae). American Fern Journal 101: 113-230.
• Barrington, D.S. 2011. Should Hybrids be Protected by Listing; Betula × sandbergii and Botrychium minganense in Vermont. Journal Torrey Botanical Club 138: 465-471.
• Dragon, J. A. and D.S. Barrington. 2009. Systematicsf the Carex aquatilis and C. lenticularis lineages: geographically and ecologically divergentsister clades of Carex section Phacocystis (Cyperaceae). American Journal of Botany 96: 1896-1906.
• Dragon, J. A. and D.S. Barrington. 2008. East vs. west: monophyletic clades within the paraphyletic Carex acuta complex, section Phacocystis (CYPERACEAE). Pp. 215-226 in Sedges: uses, diversity, and systematics of the Cyperaceae, eds. R. F. C. Naczi and B. A. Ford. Monographs in Systematic Botany 108, Missouri Botanical Garden: St. Louis, Missouri.
• Li, C. X., S. G. Lu, and D. S. Barrington. 2008. Phylogeny of Chinese Polystichum (Dryopteridaceae) based on chloroplast DNA s
• Barrington, D. S. and C. A. Paris. 2007. Refugia and migration in the Quaternary history of the New England flora. Rhodora 109: 369-386.
• Driscoll, H. E. and D. S. Barrington, 2007. Origin of Hawaiian Polystichum (Dryopteridaceae) in the context of a world phylogeny. American Journal of Botany 94: 1413–1424.
• Lu, J.-M., D. S. Barrington, and D.-Z. Li. 2007. Molecular phylogeny of the polystichoid ferns in Asia based on rbcL sequences. Systematic Botany 32: 26-34.
• Barrington, D.S. 2005. Helechos de los páramos de Costa Rica. In M. Kappelle and S. P. Horn [eds.] Páramos de Costa Rica, 375-395. InBio Press. San José, Costa Rica.
• Driscoll, H. E., D. S. Barrington, and A. V. Gilman. 2003. A re-examination of the apogamous tetraploid Phegopteris (Thelypteridaceae) from northeastern North America. Rhodora, 105: 309-321.
• Barrington, D. S. 2003. Polystichum lilianae sp. nov. (Dryopteridaceae) and its relationships to P. fournieri and P. turrialbae. Brittonia 55:317-325.
• Little, Damon P. and D. S. Barrington. 2003. Major evolutionary events in the origin and diversification of the fern genus Polystichum (Dryopteridaceae). American Journal of Botany 80: 508-516.
• Churchill, H. W., R. M. Tryon, and D. S. Barrington. 1998. Development of the sorus in tree ferns: Dicksoniaceae. Canadian Journal of Botany 76:1245-1252.
• Paler, M. H. and D. S. Barrington. 1995. The hybrid Cystopteris fragilis x C. tenuis (Dryopteridaceae) and the relationship between its tetraploid progenitors. Syst. Bot. 20: 528-545.
• Barrington, D. S. 1995. Polystichum. In: R. C. Moran and R. Riba N. eds., Flora Mesoamericana. v. 1, Pteridophyta. British Museum, London. Search Polystichum key in Flora Mesoamerica on-line.
• Barrington, D. S. 1993. Ecological and historical factors in fern biogeography. J. Biogeogr. 20:275-280.
• Barrington, D. S. 1990. Hybridization and allopolyploidy in Central American Polystichum: cytological and isozyme documentation. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 77: 297-305.
• Barrington, D.S., C.H. Haufler, and C.R. Werth.  1989.  Hybridization, reticulation, and species concepts in the ferns. Amer. Fern J. 79:55-64.
• Barrington, D.S., C.A. Paris, and T.A. Ranker.  1986.  Systematic inferences from spore and stomate size in the ferns.  Amer. Fern J. 76:149-159.