Mark Alan Hershkovitz

Mark Alan Hershkovitz is an American biochemist and taxonomist. The standard author abbreviation Hershk. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

In 1981 he received his Bachelor of Science from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He received his Master of Science and PhD degrees from University of California, Davis, in 1986 and 1990;^[2] his focus in his doctoral program was botany. Afterwards, he worked for the Laboratory of Molecular Systematics at the Smithsonian Institution as a postdoctoral scientist, and c. 1996 he joined the National Center for Biotechnology Information as a fellow under the Postdoctoral Intramural Research Training Award.^[3]

As of 2025^[update] he is doing independent research in Chile.

Taxa (re)named by Hershkovitz

• Cistanthe amaranthoides (Phil.) Carolin ex Hershk.^[4]
• C. arenaria (Cham.) Carolin ex Hershk.
• C. calycina Carolin ex Hershk.
• C.celosioides (Phil.) Carolin ex Hershk.
• C.cephalophora (I.M.Johnston) Carolin ex Hershk.
• C.coquimbensis (Barneoud) Carolin ex Hershk.
• C.cymosa (Phil.) Hershk.
• C. densiflora (Barnéoud) Hershk.
• C. monandra (Nutt.) Hershk.

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  Phemeranthus spinescens

Works

• Hershkovitz, M.A. & Zimmer, E.A. 2000. Ribosomal DNA evidence and disjunctions of western American Portulacaceae Mol. Phylogenetics and Evolution 15(3): 419–439.
• Hershkovitz M.A., Arroyo M.T.K, Bell C., and Hinojosa L.F 2006

Phylogeny of Chaetanthera (Asteraceae: Mutisieae) reveals both ancient and recent origins of the high elevation lineages Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 41: 594-605.

• Hershkovitz, M. A. (April–June 1992). "Leaf Morphology and Taxonomic Analysis of Cistanthe tweedyi (Nee Lewisia tweedyi; Portulacaceae)". Systematic Botany. 17 (2): 220–238. Bibcode:1992SysBo..17..220H. doi:10.2307/2419519. JSTOR 2419519.
• Hershkovitz, M. A. (November 1989). "Phylogenetic Studies in Centrospermae: A Brief Appraisal". Taxon. 38 (4). Wiley: 602–608. Bibcode:1989Taxon..38..602H. doi:10.2307/1222636. JSTOR 1222636.