Hileman, L.C., M.C. Vasey and V.T. Parker. 2001. Phylogeny and biogeography of the Arbutoideae (Ericaceae): Implications for the Madrean-Tethyan hypothesis. Systematic Botany 26: 131-143.

Hileman, L.C., and D.A. Baum. 2003. Why do paralogs persist? Molecular evolution of CYCLOIDEA and related floral symmetry genes in Antirrhineae (Veronicaceae). Molecular Biology and Evolution 20(4) 591-600.

Hileman, L.C., E.M. Kramer and D.A. Baum. 2003. Differential regulation of symmetry genes and the evolution of floral morphologies . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 100(22):12814-12819.

Smith, J.F., L.C. Hileman, M. Powell, and D.A. Baum. 2004. Evolution of GCYC, a Gesneriaceae homolog of CYCLOIDEA, within subfamily Gesneriodeae (Gesneriaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31;765-779.

Smith, J.F., S.B. Draper, L.C. Hileman, and D.A. Baum. 2004. A phylogenetic analysis within tribes Gloxinieae and Gesnerieae (Gesnerioideae: Gesneriaceae). Systematic Botany 29(4):947-958.

Baum, D. A. and L.C. Hileman. 2006. Genetic model for the origin of flowers. Chap. 1 in "Flowering and its manipulation" (C. Ainsworth, ed.), Blackwell Publishing, Sheffield, UK.

Hileman, L.C., S. Drea, G. de Martino, A. Litt, and V.F. Irish. 2005. Virus-induced gene silencing is an effective tool for assaying gene function in the basal eudicot species Papaver somniferum (opium poppy). The Plant Journal 44: 334-341.

Hileman, L.C., J. Sundstrom, A. Litt, M.Q. Chen, T. Shumba and V.F. Irish. Molecular and phylogenetic analyses of the MADS-box gene family in tomato. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 23(11):2245-2258.

Drea, S., L.C. Hileman, G. de Martino, and V.F. Irish.  2007.  Functional analyses of genetic pathways controlling petal specification in poppy.  Development 134:4157-4166.

Hileman, L.C. and V.F. Irish. 2008. More is better: the uses of developmental genetic data to reconstruct perianth evolution. American Journal of Botany 96:83-95.

Preston, J.C. and L.C. Hileman. 2009. Developmental genetics of floral symmetry evolution. Trends in Plant Science 14(3):147-154.

Preston, J.C., M.A. Kost and L.C. Hileman. 2009. Conservation and diversification of the symmetry developmental program among close relatives of snapdragon with divergent floral morphologies. New Phytologist 182(3):751-762.